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Sara Joy :happy_pepper:

@sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy
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Fronty-front-end dev and techy generalist, mum of 2, euro-mongrel (🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇸🇪), cyclist, lapsed swing dancer & DJ, erstwhile tall ship and dingy sailor […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ front-end.social/@sarajw, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h
@b0rk yes I gather they're hardier! I used to keep a small fish tank and totally overstocked it - this time I hope to let science show me the way...
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h
I'm considering a nano tank to "aquascape" and maybe eventually introduce little shrimp and snails into, and now I'm swimming in relevant YouTube content -- But, what nice content! A lot of it is calming and lovely to watch. Could definitely be worse! Looking at a 20 litre cube, at the moment […]
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
@hryggrbyr sometimes I quote post with an # ALT4you hashtag if they're really worth sharing. I get it though
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
@MoritzGlantz happy to read but I can't promise my brain will have anything useful to say about it 😅
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
@MoritzGlantz fair enough! As an idea I feel like it's great if it's possible - but so so hard to pin down while avoiding a bunch of footguns @tink
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
@MoritzGlantz I am an accessibility pusher but can't claim being able to rubber stamp a pattern as being accessible. Tetralogical, however: tetralogical.com/resources/accessib… Cc: @tink
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Accessible Component Library - TetraLogical
TetraLogical helps organisations build sustainable accessibility into everyday delivery, from audits to consultancy and hands-on training. Learn more.
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Moritz Glantz @moritzglantz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Calling accessibility experts: I am searching for feedback on an upcoming article about the idea of a accessibility pattern library for web. I‘d be delighted if you would give me your opinion before it goes public. Let me know and I’ll send you the link. (cc @matuzo @NinaGerling @SaraSoueidan […]
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
@amyisard it is basically the same though
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Amy Isard @amyisard.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
@sarajw I happen to have the HItchhiker’s Guide original radio version and here is a clip of the first door sigh Ford: […] a new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature Arthur: GPP, what’s that? Ford: It says Genuine People Personalities […]
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
@amyisard hahahaha. Oof.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Oh come on...
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Sara Joy ☠️ @sjoy.lol · 17/10/2026
Lovely little video of a chap (in Germany or somewhere German speaking) dealing with people standing on the ridged lines used by cane using blind people: youtube.com/shorts/Ih1xF...
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Keep the guide rails unobstructed#fyp #wholesome #respect
YouTube video by Julien Kabeya
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
It's that little breathy sigh: front-end.social/@sarajw/1174580315…
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: (@sarajw@front-end.social)
Attached: 1 video Just listen to these things
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Just listen to these things
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
@scrwd oh nice! Yeah that sounds like a fun experiment for people who have the time 😅
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Now I'm starting to understand the ick factor of the doors in the Heart of Gold ship, in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Linking them worked! Funny, why not. Not stereo though, I guess? Another thing is that their startup and Bluetooth connection noises are very hifi but also unnervingly human and satisfied sounding. Some deep sighs some out of this thing. It's a little too sensual 😳
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Oh and I also bought the pink one! Also available in a more understated white. Apparently they can link together and play the same output from one source! Not tested that yet.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Bought a cute little IKEA KALLSUP* Bluetooth speaker today, and it works pretty nicely! I pulled it open out of curiosity because there were just two screws and I thought, why not - if it breaks I've only lost 4.99€ It has a nice little 14500 battery in it […] [Original post on front-end.social]
The view into the back of the opened speaker, showing the rear of the speaker cone, the 14500 battery (like an AA size, just higher voltage), and the edge of a PCB with a USB-C connector on it.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
@yatil lolol. That would have been very funny but I best not piss these guys off, they know where I live and how to fuck with my internets
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
It was more like 1.5 hours in the end! Guess he'd already doubled the estimate before telling me. One of the other workers got narky at me for taking a photo of the site, though. I guess it's fair, he didn't know I was trying my best to keep their faces out of shot. But also, they were working […]
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
I just love it when a company digs up the pavement in front of my home and severs my internet connection without warning. Apparently a length of cable needs replacing. Another 2-3 hours (I'll double that estimate as standard). Here's hoping it's all connected up right before they fill the hole […]
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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 13/10/2026
I’m looking to connect with university lecturers and staff. We offer student tickets for @ffconf.org, but they’re easy to miss, and I’d love to give the next generation of web developers the chance to attend a great indie event. If anyone can contact please drop me comment here I can follow up.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
@MoritzGlantz it reminded me of what I think went around as a T shirt for a while, I think it said "FUCK GRAPHIC DESIGN" and it was just bolded, italicised, underlined black text on a white background 😅
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
@MoritzGlantz ah I did wonder what the post was for, now it clicks 😅
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
@jscholes English. My Swedish doesn't really feature because my grammar is so bad, without societal support they would just grow up with a very weird swenglish. My husband speaks to them in German, but for at least a couple of years they've both replied to him in English.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Of course, if the AfD get into any kind of power, their racist rules could absolutely come for us too. We're not necessarily safe because we're white, but until the hammer falls, we're treated very well and don't feel at all unsafe. But from this privileged position I do feel the need to […]
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
There was a graph within it about the number of school children from families who largely don't speak German at home. I pointed to that and showed the kids and said, that's us, too. We're a migrant root family. I immigrated, I take child support, I block up healthcare appointments. But we get […]
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Just had to tear up this rag that appeared in our postbox. It's a publication by the AfD which wasn't obvious until I looked at the social media handles on the back page. Gross. Get out of here.
A tabloid sized newspaper titled "UNS HAMBURG" (uns = us) with headline "Die Wende, jetzt!" (The turn/change, now!) and the following large quote from Dirk Nockemann: Hamburg braucht Sicherheit, Wohl-stand und Vernunft. Nicht irgendwann. Jetzt.

Translated: Hamburg needs security, prosperity, and common sense. Not sometime in the future. Now.

There's also some racist and general rightward nonsense on there about Islam and criminality. All the usual bullshit.The same bullshit paper torn up in the bottom of our paper recycling bin.
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Classic Web @classicweb.site · 07/10/2026
dieselsweeties.com in 2000 web.archive.org/web/20001019082928i…
Screenshot of dieselsweeties.com in 2000
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
@classicweb Oh wow. That's a throwback!
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Thiiiiiiiis: youtube.com/shorts/v0hh9VIoKQs
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Sara Joy ☠️ @sjoy.lol · 03/10/2026
May I moan about the guy who is speaking loudly at length on the phone in the space between carriages, whose voice and the voice of the person on the other end is carrying loudly into the quiet carriage. I can hear him through earplugs. I can't stop my brain from trying to follow his conversation.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
I didn't get all those stickers yesterday, but a couple in my existing collection felt relevant to the conversations we had while there, or represent the people attending 💜 Also the ournet.rocks stickers were from a previous trip to NL when I met @tommi :)
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Knitting Our Internet 🧶
Knitting Our Internet is an interactive journey through the history of the Internet, and a collective rethinking of its future.The activity consists of a face-to-face workshop, providing tangible and simple examples about how the Internet works, simultaneously questioning the very essence of today’s mainstream social networks. Its main purpose is to expose the critical limits of surveillance capitalism, centralization, and its environmental impact.After acknowledging the challenges the digital domain is currently facing, participants are encouraged to reinterpret social networks starting from decentralization, envisioning more human, collective, and participatory digital futures.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
No better time to organise some stickers than on a long train ride...
View of train seat table. On it are my sticker collection folder, a open sticker book, a jailbroken kindle, and my water bottle (with the Pirate Ship company logo and the text "Probably Water." printed on it), and Fronteers Dark Mode related stickers scattered on the right.The sticker book's right page has one pink and yellow F, four F7S stickers with border shapes that represent parentheses, square brackets, curly brackets, and less than/greater than symbols.

Next stickers are:
You wouldn't steal Jake's {code},
Ravenous Hounds (Heydon's band),
A shiny Chrome Dino,
The phallic new W3C logo,
Glittery London Web Standards logo with 8 rainbow arrows all pointing inwards,
Mental Health Club,
Mastodon mascot with QR code.

The left page has two stickers from a previous NL trip, the first saying "shake your <head> move your <body>" and the second "the internet is ours" with a pixelated black can and ball of yarn. Both have the URL https://ournet.rocks

The Kindle is now displaying "Diana Wynne Jones, Chrestomanci Series" while asleep. The water bottle is showing the sticker on its other side, being the Little Mole with text "Sei nicht blind! Keine Stimme der AfD!" (Don't be blind! No votes for the AfD).A close up of the right hand page, as described in previous picture.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@ianRobinson understood. I've lived in Germany since 2014, and have citizen voting rights in UK and Sweden - there's a lot to keep a tabs on. Thankfully Sweden ticked back to the left, hopefully all the parties of the left bloc can overcome their differences and work together.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@ianRobinson yes I guess if the short game isn't being won, we'll have to resort to the long game.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@slothrop Saturday is the worst day for a public holiday! I know all the shopkeepers should also get a day off, but nngghh. Bet the queues at the little railway station supermarkets are long today
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@ianRobinson this is heartbreaking. Mr Burnham seems to be doing good things, but I can't support him until he turns it around for trans people. It's so wrong.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
RE: front-end.social/@sarajw/1173661907… Woohoo trein Wifi works today!
Screenshot of a notification saying "Wifi in de trein, Connected, now."
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Heydon doing very cool things with Web Audio API and custom elements #fronteersDarkMode @heydon
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Now I've also edited the first post :)
Proof photo of me wearing the Mastodon "I write ALT TEXT" T shirt, standing in front of pretty traditional striped brick buildings.A photo of the Kunstkerk opposite the conference venue (Cinema De Witt), a typically house shaped building but with huge swirly stained glass panels in front (the crucifix - with Jesus - is curved!). The style of the art in the panels gives me Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet vibes.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
I could of course add alt text later but I'm literally wearing my "I write ALT TEXT" T shirt right now 😅
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
It's all boats and bikes here, just my kind of place
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
So Dordrecht is gorgeous. I'll post photos when I give myself time to do the alt text justice.
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
I don't need more colours, I don't need more colours...
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
New Mastodon plushies for preorder! Go go go shop.joinmastodon.org/products/pre-…
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PRE-ORDER Mastodon plushie 20cm - Plushtodon
THIS IS A PRE-ORDER. Expected to start shipping beginning of November. If you include other items with your order, they will all be shipped together. They're back! Designed with love and care, our new plushie comes with the soft surface and pleasantly squishy stuffing you've come to expect, in the more portable format
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
I'm on a different train line now. Maybe fewer pickpockets. Sadly no working Wifi in de trein though. (I'm so sorry, sort of, to Nederlands people, but your language reads like someone mixing German, Danish and English all together and it comes out adorable somehow.)
One of the available WiFi access points is called "Wifi in de trein" and says "Saved / No internet access"
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Sara Joy :happy_pepper: @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Always time for a bit of Oliver!: youtu.be/4X48mxMPm9Q
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