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Lead front end developer @a11ytalks.com organizer Knitter, spinner, and lover of stationery 🧶 ✒️ Website: aubreysambor.com Mastodon: labyrinth.social/@starshaped

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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 21/06/2026
Spent the weekend volunteering at my niece’s dance recital selling snacks during the shows and intermissions, and being on my feet for a combined 10+ hours on Friday and Saturday has left me pretty damn tired. Now that I’m home after my 1.5 hour drive, I’m ready to relax!
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 11/06/2026
The worst part of running in the summer is taking a shower and STILL being hot and sweaty after the shower. Welcome to my morning!
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 07/06/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@cferdinandi/116709… I can’t boost this enough.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 26/05/2026
RE: mstdn.social/@a11ytalks/11664246901… This talk with @gerardkcohen (front-end.social/@gerardkcohen) was so, so good! Join us tomorrow to hear his talk “Solving for the Edges”.
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A11yTalks (@a11ytalks@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 video Join us tomorrow, May 27, 2026, at 12pm ET or catch the recording after! #a11y
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 23/05/2026
It’s funny that I love Survivor and the Traitors so much because I’d be so bad at both games. I’m known for being brutally honest so I’d be voted out / murdered in both games in a heartbeat.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 23/05/2026
I’m “in bed by 9pm on a Friday night” years old, thank you very much!
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Erin @biscuit.quest · 22/05/2026
For the morning crowd: A resource for southerners new to Rhode Island erinrwhite.com/southerners-...
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A southerner’s guide to Rhode Island | Erin White
Nature, food, people, politics: An incomplete accounting and attempt at a survival guide for my fellow expats
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 22/05/2026
10 bands I've seen live: Foo Fighters Red Hot Chili Peppers Radiohead The Strokes Guided by Voices Black Rebel Motorcycle Club The Decemberists Smashing Pumpkins The New Pornographers They Might Be Giants
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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Every single day on this app someone I used to respect disappoints me by praising AI. Every. Single. Day.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 24/04/2026
Sites that make any sort of noise, no. Please no. I'm easily startled and will close the page right away if your site makes any bit of sound. I didn't find it cute in the 90s when everyone had midis autoplaying on their sites and I don't find it cute now.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 19/04/2026
Got my run done this morning and I’m happy with the progress I’m making. Next up, time to enjoy some tasty coffee! ☕️
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 13/04/2026
This is something I've been thinking for over a year. In my experience, bottlenecks have never been in code being written too slowly—they've been in processes. Improving processes isn't sexy, so you'll never see those on a fancy powerpoint slide. andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought…
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Debugging Leadership
Debugging Leadership. A better way to manage your business.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 07/04/2026
It's April 7th. Why am I seeing snow falling outside? I'd love for spring to start here, please.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 05/04/2026
Week notes: 2026-14 www.aubreysambor.com/weeknotes-2026…
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Week notes: 2026-14 | Aubrey Sambor
A blog about knitting, front end development, and other assorted things.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 03/04/2026
Made a list of essential albums to write a potential blog post (thanks @hl (social.lol/@hl) for the suggestion!), but as soon as I did, I realized I didn't want to write about my past and the feelings these albums evoked. I'm finding myself wanting to write more about current or new to me al
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Henry (@hl@social.lol)
3.94K Posts, 667 Following, 557 Followers · I am, or have been, in no particular order, a: parent, data analyst, aircraft designer, guitarist, project manager, chartered mechanical engineer, chorus member, tinkerer, programmer, music fan, executive assistant, traveller, glider pilot, concert promoter, crowd herder and supermarket cashier.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 01/04/2026
I'm dealing with the age-old problem of wanting to blog but not knowing what to blog about. Why can’t I just think of ideas?
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 28/03/2026
It wouldn’t be me if I wasn’t awake at 6am on a Saturday morning. My body clearly doesn’t know how to sleep in anymore. That’s ok, more time for coffee!
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 27/03/2026
Traveled to Chicago this past week and one of my favorite parts was swinging by Atlas Stationers and buying myself a hot pink Esterbrook Funky Town pen. Love! #fountainpen
A hot pink Esterbrook Funky Town pen with its box in the background.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 23/03/2026
Channelling my inner @macpsych (social.lol/@macpsych) and enjoying a glass of champagne in the airport lounge before my flight. Hey, why not?
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MacPsych (@macpsych@social.lol)
208 Posts, 959 Following, 178 Followers · I'm Richard, a Dubliner, now Londoner. 🏳️‍🌈 Workplace #Psychologist 🧠 & Coach 🧭. Outside of work, a massive #scifi geek 🛸. Love learning #languages, badly. Busy learning #Japanese and #Spanish. Can curse with ease in #Dutch. #French spontaneously reappears in my brain when required. I'm a constant #travel fiend. Probably planning my next visit to #Japan, my favourite place on earth. I own far too many bags and spend as much time as possible lying in the sun. ☀️
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 10/03/2026
It's 75F / 24C outside right now and the walk I just took felt like the best walk I've ever taken in my life.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 23/02/2026
Who woke up at 3:30am yesterday, spent 12 hours in the Baltimore airport wondering if her connecting flight to New England would get canceled while a blizzard hits the area, and finally got home at 11pm? That's right, I did. And I'm so glad I got home and not stuck for a couple days while we get pu
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 06/02/2026
Participated in #BandcampFriday for the first time ever today and bought 3 digital albums—Singin’ to an Empty Chair by Ratboys (ratboys.bandcamp.com/album/singin-t…), Move On With the Year by Alice Costelloe (alcostelloe.bandcamp.com/album/move…) an
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Singin’ to an Empty Chair, by Ratboys
11 track album
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 30/01/2026
It's so fucking wild to me that companies REALLY want you to use AI, that they're really invested in you using it for who knows what reasons. Why the hell does it matter how you write your code? The one positive about not having a full time job is not being forced to use AI. So, so glad about that.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 27/01/2026
Watch me and a few other members of the @a11ytalks (mstdn.social/@a11ytalks) team delve into the history of A11yTalks and discuss updates from the last couple years in tomorrow's event! Preview it here: mstdn.social/@a11ytalks/11596914396…
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A11yTalks (@a11ytalks@mstdn.social)
241 Posts, 8 Following, 517 Followers · #A11yTalks is a virtual meet-up featuring speakers & conversations around digital #accessibility and #inclusion. IAAP-approved for CAECs. https://a11ytalks.com
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 27/01/2026
Finally signed up for Crucial Tracks if anyone else is there! I'm trying to get back into listening to music more, and posting a new song that means something to me every day is a good way to do it. I'm at app.crucialtracks.org/profile/stars…!
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 18/01/2026
Week notes: 2026-03 www.aubreysambor.com/weeknotes-2026…
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Week notes: 2026-03 | Aubrey Sambor
A blog about knitting, front end development, and other assorted things.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 17/01/2026
Ordered some dry rub wings and ‘dry’ is the key word. Ordered some wet wings from the server to rectify this tragedy.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 17/01/2026
At a Buffalo Wild Wings at 7pm on a Friday night. It is just as intense as you think it would be.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 06/01/2026
A great way to tell that you need a break from Discord? Closing the app but then clicking the app in your dock reflexively without even knowing you're doing it. For now, Discord has been removed from my dock. I’ll check it way less often now and open it only when I want to catch up on what's goin
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 03/01/2026
We are in the worst timeline. Why the fuck did people here vote this man back in office? It is an embarrassment and awful for everyone in the world. So fucking awful.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 01/01/2026
Kicked off 2026 by going on a run and listening to the latest episode of the Friendship Material podcast with @cygnoir (social.lol/@cygnoir) and @keenan (social.lol/@keenan). Dip a sandwich!
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cygnoir (@cygnoir@social.lol)
91 Posts, 264 Following, 962 Followers · 🦢➕🖤 · writer, librarian, diarist · probably thinking about fountain pen ink ⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾ ⋆⁺₊⋆ header image alt: portrait of a fountain pen atop two books with black covers, one stamped 2019, the other 2020 (photo by me) avatar image alt: b&w illustration of a human with long hair, nose ring, & hypnotic spiral irises (art by Mike Jeung) 🫥 some toots expire, somewhen 🫥
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 31/12/2025
Got my 2025 year in review blog post up before the new year. Amazing! Here's to 2026 being a better year. aubreysambor.com/2025-year-in-review
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2025 year in review | Aubrey Sambor
A blog about knitting, front end development, and other assorted things.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 31/12/2025
Last day of using two planners before fully switching to my 2026 Hobonichi Weeks tomorrow. Nothing feels better than finishing one planner and starting a fresh new one. #hobonichi
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 27/12/2025
A plant I bought a little over 6 years ago to celebrate getting the job I was laid off from in March is on its last legs and I’m so sad. I suppose it’s fitting, but it’s sad just the same.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 26/12/2025
Today I turned 45 and spent the day with my sister’s in-laws. I got cake and it was delightful. Oh yeah, and it was that other holiday too, but I like remembering my birthday first and foremost.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 24/12/2025
Spent this Christmas Eve / the day before my birthday getting my nails painted a glittery red, then treating myself to a sushi lunch. Now I’m home watching the snow fall and I’m feeling nice and cozy.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 24/12/2025
All right, I’ll bite. @FediTree (masto.es/@FediTree)
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FediTree (@FediTree@masto.es)
1,15 m Publicaciones, 0 Siguiendo, 600 Seguidores · [EN] This account will generate a tree with your most interacted accounts if you mention it. - The bot will omit accounts with #nobot in their profile or the discoverability setting set to off. - Reply with #delete to delete the generated tree. - Write "🎄" in your mention to force the bot to re-generate your tree for this year (otherwise it will ignore any mentions after the first). [ES] Esta cuenta genera un árbol con las cuentas con las que más has interaccionado si la mencionas. - El bot omitirá las cuentas con #nobot en su perfil o la configuración de descubrimiento desactivada. - Responde con #delete para eliminar el árbol generado. - Escribe "🎄" en tu mención para obligar al bot a volver a generar su árbol para este año (de lo contrario, ignorará cualquier mención posterior a la primera).
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 19/12/2025
How I can tell it's been a rough year: I haven't been posting either here or on my blog, and I haven't wanted to listen to music in months. I want to change these now so here I am, posting! May 2026 be way, way better.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 07/12/2025
Today I ran a 5k without stopping to walk for the first time in years and while I’m not fast by any stretch of the imagination, I’m still proud of myself. Those hills were no joke!
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 17/11/2025
Thanks to everyone who attended my talk, "What a Front of the Front End Developer Brings to Your Team”, at @nedcamp.bsky.social this past Saturday! You can find my slides and resource links at noti.st/starshaped/z.... #nedcamp #nedcamp2025
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What a Front of the Front End Developer Brings to Your Team by Aubrey Sambor
Are you a front of the front end developer who focuses on CSS, semantic HTML, and presentational Javascript, and do you wonder if your skillset matters in the world of modern web development? Do you t...
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 14/10/2025
Time to call out two blog posts by fellow AI skeptics that I enjoyed reading today, in case you feel the same way about AI as I do: gomakethings.com/the-ai-mandate by @cferdinandi (mastodon.social/@cferdinandi) blog.varn.dev/2025/10/14/why-you-ma… by @hotsauce
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The AI Mandate
I’ve been hearing from more and more friends who are having AI forced upon them and rammed down their throats at work. Goals and bonuses tied to using AI at work AI working groups 1x1 meetings where “how are you using AI in your work right now” is the main talking point Getting “voluntold” to teach coworkers about something cool you can do with AI Senior developers telling junior devs to “ask AI” instead of actually mentoring them Lets not mince words: this is cult shit.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 10/10/2025
On blogging more often aubreysambor.com/on-blogging-more-o…
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On blogging more often | Aubrey Sambor
A blog about knitting, front end development, and other assorted things.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 03/10/2025
Taking a weekend reset from Mastodon and Discord. Obviously, after posting this. aubreysambor.com/weekend-break-from…
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Weekend break from social media | Aubrey Sambor
A blog about knitting, front end development, and other assorted things.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 23/09/2025
Hi all! 👋🏻 I’m looking for my next senior front end dev role. I have 19+ years of experience working with a wide variety of companies and love writing accessible HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. 🗒️: aubreysambor.com/resume/ Leads/reposts appreciated! #HireMe #JobSearch #JobSeeker #OpenToWork #frontend
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 05/08/2025
Hi all! 👋 I was laid off and am looking for my next senior front end developer role. I have 19+ years of experience working with small agencies and Fortune 500 companies and focus on writing clean, accessible HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Resume: aubreysambor.com/resume/ Leads/reposts appreciated!
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Resume | Aubrey Sambor
A blog about web development, knitting, and other assorted things.
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Robb Knight @rknight.me · 11/08/2025
⭐ I’m Tired of Talking About AI paddy.carvers.com/posts/2025/07/ai ∞ rknight.me/links/im-tired-of-talkin…
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I’m Tired of Talking About AI
I don’t want to talk about LLMs anymore.
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Mia [data-css=poetic] @miriam.codes · 08/08/2025
a web that isn't human-first is a web I want nothing to do with. I'm not going to "optimize the graph" of assertions, or whatever. I'm not a content farm for your algorithm. i'm here to build real relationships with real people - and if that's not what the web is for anymore, I'll be somewhere else.
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Sophie @localghost.dev · 08/08/2025
My website is for humans, and I don't want Google's AI ramen localghost.dev/blog/this-we...
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This website is for humans - localghost
I don't want Google's shitty AI-generated ramen
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 05/08/2025
Hi all! 👋 I was laid off and am looking for my next senior front end developer role. I have 19+ years of experience working with small agencies and Fortune 500 companies and focus on writing clean, accessible HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Resume: aubreysambor.com/resume/ Leads/reposts appreciated!
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Resume | Aubrey Sambor
A blog about web development, knitting, and other assorted things.
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Aubrey @aubreysambor.com · 04/08/2025
I'm going to start posting here more often. Mastodon is still my main social media home, but I also want to keep in touch with people here, too. Looking forward to being here more regularly!
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