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Sofia Simanke

@smnk.me

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UX/UI designer from Brazil. Experience working in digital transformation projects in the public sector. she/her • 🏳️‍🌈

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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 03/06/2025

oh my god. idk if it's AI generated or what but their new mascot thingie is terrifying.

Extremely uncanny valley image of a skinny brown skinned woman with short curly hair, wearing a bright yellow suit, staring straight through your soul with wide open eyes, her mouth in a tight and strained looking smile showing off a row of perfectly straight teeth. Not sure whether her face is showing murderous intent or screaming "put me out of my misery".

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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 03/06/2025

someone should let the brazilian mail service know that create-react-app has been deprecated

Search engine result:

meucorreios.correios.com.br
Meu Correios: Web site created using create-react-app.

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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025

i was like – is it botões or borbotões? why do i think it’s borbotões? is that even a word, what does it mean? i’ve finally identified the source of my confusion. the first time i ever heard this expression was in the children’s musical Os Saltimbancos, which takes poetic license to say “borbotões”

Track “O Jumento” from album “Os Saltimbancos”. Lyrics:

“E chorar, e chorar aos soluços
E pensava com meus borbotões”

Album art is an illustration of a dog, cat, hen and donkey. Screenshot from Apple Music.

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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025

sometimes, it's the little things that bring you joy

Ghostty terminal app dynamic icon on the dock, set to the "blueprint" variety (cute ghost shaped icon with a "> –" winky face over a blueprint style background)

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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 30/05/2025

“it’s not that i was blinded by my loneliness; i just didn’t want to see anything anymore” – ayumi hamasaki, immature

immature - 浜崎あゆみ

孤独で何も見えなくなったんじゃない
もう何も見たくなかったんだ

(Apple Music screenshot)

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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 22/05/2025

question about html headings and best practices / accessibility if i have <header> <main> then <footer> in my page, and the one <h1> element describing the page is inside <main> using a <h2> inside <header> to label the <nav>, doesn’t it break the principle of not using the headings out of order?

Avoid using multiple <h1> elements on one page:

While using multiple <h1> elements on one page is allowed by the HTML standard (as long as they are not nested), this is not considered a best practice. A page should generally have a single <h1> element that describes the content of the page (similar to the document's ‹title> element).

Don't do this:

<h1>Heading level 1</h1>
<h3>Heading level 3</h3>
<h4>Heading level 4</h4>

Prefer this:

<h1>Heading level 1</h1>
<h2>Heading level 2</h2>
<h3>Heading level 3</h3>

Sectioning content examples:

<header>
<nav aria-labelledby="primary-navigation">
<h2 id="primary-navigation">
Primary navigation
</h2>
<!- navigation items ->
</nav>
</header>

<!-- page content ->

<footer>
<nav aria-labelledby="footer-navigation">
<h2 id="footer-navigation">
Footer navigation
</h2>
<!-- navigation items ->
</ nav>
</footer>

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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 09/05/2025

the old man complaining i’m taking too long to serve his lunch

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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 09/05/2025

time to open a new can of fancy vet food for the old man

A can of Royal Canin gastrointestinal canine pâté

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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 05/05/2025

about 1,5 year ago i left a comment on a video about scrupulosity OCD trying to describe what feels to me like a compulsion to apologize. after that i got 2 separate replies on that comment from ppl saying they felt the same and found my comment helpful. and those replies made me so happy, somehow

A psychiatrist has told me I might have OCD. I'm not sure it's the case because I'm having a hard time identifying intrusive thoughts of the "if i don't do blank then blank bad thing will happen" sort. I might just
be really anxious with some obsessive traits? But I can definitely tell I have a compulsion to apologize. Over multiple interactions with people, every little one adds a little tick to the count of things i've done or said wrong and things that are wrong about me as a person. I feel like, I'm not sure whether l'm a bad person or not, but this is making me so uncomfortable, I should apologize just in case, I should try to atone just in case, so I can stop thinking about it. But at that point i'm not thinking about any specific trigger, so i have nothing specific to apologize about to any one person. So my compulsion is just to go on social media like twitter and openly tweet something "I'm sorry for being annoying", "I'm sorry for being me", or if I'm really going through it it can just be "i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry" repeatedly. I never want to apologize directly to another person when i know i'm doing it compulsively, because i know i'm putting the onus on them to reassure me and that just makes me feel worse, that I am inconveniencing someone to have them make me feel better. So apologizing into the void seems preferable. It honestly still does not offer much relief. (maybe if i were religious i would try to apologize in prayer, but i'm not.)

Reply #1: Man I could've been you writing this. Thank you for putting it into words. I'm not diagnosed at all nor do I know what I'm going to do but thank you

Reply #2: Hi, I know I'm a year late, but thank you so much for taking the time to write this down! This helped me even more than the video ❤️❤️❤️

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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/05/2025

recently started reading the aubrey-maturin series, and i’m currently at the part of post captain where maturin is trying to raise free roaming bees in a ship i can’t stop laughing at the ridiculous man and the sitcom tone of it all dhdhdjfj