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If I unfollowed you, it's because you keep posting things without alt text she/her

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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 8h
trying to understand code i wrote recently where i construct two different arrays of different element counts, and use the same index for both, and it's CORRECT. and thinking 1. how can i delete this 2. i could be dancing instead
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 8h
bsky.app/profile/gone...
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Doug! @itsdoug.ca · 29/09/2026
Quoth the Raven:
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
onboarding compiler developers with the mandatory cat ears
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i'm guessing rabbit lady wouldn't have blocked me if i hadn't included (1) here. i still haven't found a way to encourage people to write alt text without sounding like i'm annoyed about it. that's most likely because i'm annoyed about it
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
okay listen up 1. write alt text, i will add some below 2. someone being fun isn't good criteria for a lasting friendship. it's maybe a good start. but then you have to BUILD A FOUNDATION that the rest of the friendship lives on 3. that part is how you do better than "hey"
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
they're just gonna want to come right back in again
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
measuring things in years sucks. there's gotta be something better
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Annette @weeble.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I gathered lots of useful data. Like "tell players they do not need to break and enter, or climb anything". Also "do not take photographs in an area that may induce players to breach section 41 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925".
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WhoAreYouPerson @whoareyouperson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"this wall is in fierce motion, but not at a timescale that we can understand." -kate's alt-text. beautiful reminds me of portal 2. a near abandoned facility taken back by nature, brutally violating humanity's intent for structure permanence. nature thrives in our absence of timely maintenance
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
some photos about movement and time
sunlight on a wall, broken plaster and peeling paint. exposed sandstone brought to the surface, picked out in relief with layers of plaster falling away. there's a "warning: 24hr cctv" sign to the side; it isn't relevant for us. we're focused on the warm afternoon light, the various earthy colours of old paint, the decay and the neglect. all of which are beautiful, if you stop and look at the contrast in textures. the light is moving slowly here, that we think of it as unchanging. and so it is with crumbling stone.
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
~ The Five Stages of Grief ~ according to yours truly 1. anger 2. crying 3. anger again 2. more crying 1. anger
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
in no small part it was fun because of people who are no longer here
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
looks the same as every other book on topology to me
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
gm
achewood "guess who just got yelllled aaaat" strip as a meme, except i have skillfully edited it such that Téodor is singing "guess who just broke prodddd", still with the musical notes
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Also it seems ai has been merrily hacking into the hugging thingy site and also one of Australia sites all in its own." my mum, who knows i work for The Internet, regularly lets me know what's going on with the Websites 🥺
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
bitch ain't never heard of gödel
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i asked my neighbour for help today, because i got a bit of grit (read: an enormous rock) in my eye and i couldn't get it out. she declined to help, which i honestly wasn't expecting. what happened to someone that they won't help you get something out of your eye?
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
we've been drawing this cat for three months
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
what kind of PPE do you wear to stop you being scared of spiders
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
opinions please? i think that's for big stuff like lathes and drill presses, where if it gets caught it'd pull you into the machine? and then you can't escape and you get mashed into a fine paste. but for handheld tools if they get caught, the tool pulls out of your hand. hm.
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
i bought this adorable 12V circular saw. it's about the size of a good sardine. it is incapable of cutting any timber i have
here i am holding a battery powered circular saw, approximately one sardine in diameter. it's made by bosch, it's 12v, it's adorable. be careful to not accidentally drop it down the sink. in the background you can see a bunch of timber that this absolutely is not capable of cutting, and on the floor is a small jigsaw that's also not capable of cutting the stacked timber. and a framing hand saw that is. is there a lesson here? we will find outthe underside! there's a blade guard, the normal kind that rotates out of the way as you slide it into stuff you're cutting. except it's tiny. it's also covering the blade of course, you can't see shit. i mean uh, not just because you're reading alt text, but because the blade guard is covering the blade
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
> Hi Katherine, > Saw your contributions to libfsm and thought there could be a fit with <insert name of their shitty product here>. my *contributions* to libfsm you say
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
we're kids when we're getting surgeries, adult men when we're in a bathroom
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
*adult* me is impressed with me today
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
planned obsolescence! this laser level is definitely designed to stop working after it falls off a ladder, bounces against a wall and gets kicked into a hole. anyway I fixed it hooray
a naked laser level! it's a frame that self centres with a little weight, which had fallen out internally. I have taped over the lasers while I'm working on it, because we value health and safety here in house Katethe same laser back in its case. which looks rugged! but it's a lie. inside is delicate stuff. anyway it's working again, but is it actually level? no, probably not. but it'll do
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
took some time off work, went dancing tonight to get out of work headspace, danced with a guy in an adjacent town, and he's a compiler engineer and knows like half my colleagues and we talked about AST nodes and targeting ISAs via higher level IRs HOW DO I STOP WORKING PLEASE HELP
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
in "i definitely don't have adhd news" i got on this train about 10s before it departed, probably about a minute total from leaving my house to the train departing. including buying a ticket. also it's the right train! it's even going near where I wanted to go
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
become my manager! i'm hiring. pros: you get to manage me. other pros: you also get to manage other people too, they're good and competent and i like them a lot. cons: THERE AREN"T ANY CONS SEND ME YOUR CV. ps. please be good at being a manager
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
considering electric shock collars attached to CI failures for improving team morale
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
the fly brain is just the bits of gold foil without the little puffs of air though, isn't it?
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
when i'm making an omelette and i am adding ham to my omelette, as i move the ham closer and closer towards the omelette... i would really, really like for my brain to stop telling me the hamming distance
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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 09/09/2026
this is like those nightmares where you’re trying to drive a car from the back seat
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Snoot 🐾 @snoot.pink · 08/09/2026
had a similar thing occur with the “clear” command because a team member got annoyed it’d, er, clear their terminal, so they just replaced it with a blank file
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Joh @joh.dev · 08/09/2026
Fun fact: the og /bin/true was an empty file. Which runs successfully and does nothing. Hence $?=0
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
; sudo systemctl start $(something) ; sudo systemctl is-active ; sudo systemctl help ; sudo systemctl hello ; echo $? 0 my colleague (with both the foresight of apollo and the insight of athena): file $(which systemctl) friends /usr/bin/systemctl was an EMPTY FILE. how does this happen
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
something i think most people miss in alt text: conveying the *feeling* for the image, and what strikes you immediately when glancing at it. you nailed those. these are bewildering things to look at! why would we describe them clinically and precisely, you know?
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
fantastic alt text
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
something i find absolutely exhausting, discussion about this stuff is always so guy-coded, it's all what's most efficient or most impactful, or produces some result or whatever. always the most of something. i don't care about any of that. i enjoy writing code. why do we gotta optimise our output
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
wish i'd thought to screenshot this. IBM tweeted "what are mainframes good for?", i replied "getting railed against", and they blocked me :D and then later deleted their tweet
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Rosabelle Houdin @rosabelini.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@katef.bsky.social what do you use to make the waveform visualiser?
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frank: print witch @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We had Ks in Welsh until some bloke decided to translate the bible into the language & the printers were like, we don't have enough Ks for this project so they swapped them for Cs instead
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
every time i apt upgrade my laptop, happyautomata breaks in a new and exciting way. i genuinely can't imagine what would cause this failure mode
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vaguely reassuring state machines @happyautomata.com · 05/09/2026
💜🤍🐘🖤
A randomly generated finite state machine, made of hearts in the asexual pride flag colours: 💜🤍🐘🖤
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
> Unable to connect. Check your internet connection and try again. Bitch i work for the internet wtf
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
pctg stays transparent when you bend it
an offcut of pctg (not petg) filament held in the sunlight. it's almost entirely transparent. i've bent it into sharp angles, and the angled bits have the same optical clarity as the unbent parts. this is kind of unusual for a plastic, things like polystyrenes will go opaque with internal stress at the bends. pretty cool. i don't have any petg on hand to compare it to
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Two of my excellent and now departed colleagues are giving an online talk tonight on Moomins: Grief, Comfort and Loss. events.humanitix.com/moomins-grie...
events.humanitix.com
Moomins: Grief, Comfort & Loss
A public online lecture exploring the ways in which Moomin characters - particularly Toft and Toffle - can aid in negotiating grief, loss and change.
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anoetic 🏳️‍⚧️ @obliqueanoetic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
lil modular sounds
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
i danced with a canadian today. what are some cool things you can say to canadians?
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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
hello, british person here. TIL you are supposed to pan fry gnocchi
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