Reposted by Sofia SimankeDesign Systems News @designsysnews.bsky.social · 06/06/2025✨ Design Systems News 220+ Illustrations for Your Design Systems SassUI offers a collection of free illustrations tailored for design systems and documentation. High-quality, customisable visuals designed to enhance your projects illustrations.saas-ui.dev #DesignSystems 001
Reposted by Sofia SimankeKatie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025The Guardian have changed the headline for the *third time* today. 214650
Reposted by Sofia SimankeHow-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 06/06/2025In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children 29490192199
Reposted by Sofia SimankeMia [data-css=poetic] @miriam.codes · 06/06/2025Major announcement, I've "trained" a "Lot of Language Model" in #CSS, so you no longer have to use confusing color syntax. Just describe* the color you want in plain language!** Invisible, conversational interface!*** codepen.io/miriamsuzann...codepen.io--miaGPT generative colors in CSS... 3273
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 06/06/2025i just wish i could use left and right to cycle through files in a folder inside the Preview app :( 000
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025but as soon as a tried to do something a little bit more “advanced” for me (i think i tried to package an AppImage for an app that wasn’t on nixpkgs? to install it with home-manager?) i was like…. i have no idea how this works dhdjdjf 000
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025i picked up nixOS as my first attempt at using linux, both bc i was just curious, and bc the rollbacks made me less nervous about breaking everything. i do prefer writing a config file instead of doing random commands whose effects i don’t fully understand and that i’ll forget 5 minutes later 100
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025one day i’m going to fully blur the lines between “fun account” and “serious account” and start posting about nogizaka on here. i know myself. should just follow @ca.rter.io’s example and have no fear of going full wota under my full legal name. 120
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025the defense contractor shebacle bummed me out when i heard about it 110
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025i’ve been trying to learn more about nix despite being a Fake Coder (aka loves reading & learning about programming but doesn’t do it in practice so has very limited understanding) nix community seems like it has so many cool ppl but also some bummer weird stuff high up?? 110
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025my very small dog is very upset about not being fed today. he does not understand the concept of fasting before a medical exam. 020
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025they could always steal it and have high chances of getting away with it anyway, but laundering the practice like this so people don’t even see it as something sneaky you have to “get away with” gives me the ick… 000
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025the fact that there’s open source code with explicitly copyleft licenses being used to train AI coding tools used to write proprietary code for huge corporations hurts my heart some place deep 🫠 121
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025and isn’t there a huge difference between pirating something for your personal use vs profiting off of someone’s IP by repackaging it and selling it to others? even if you think both or bad or both are ok, it feels weird to conflate them as the same thing 100
Reposted by Sofia SimankeHaskell programming language @haskell.org · 03/06/2025In this Pride Month, let us remember that #FunctionalProgramming has the privilege and honour to share our beloved λ with the Lesbian community. Let's go Lesbians! 12810187
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 03/06/2025oh my god. idk if it's AI generated or what but their new mascot thingie is terrifying. 000
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 03/06/2025someone should let the brazilian mail service know that create-react-app has been deprecated 110
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025isn’t it the curse of going public? having huge stable profit isn’t enough, need infinite growth to keep investors happy. grow as much as you can in the one thing you do, you have no choice but to “branch out”… 0110
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025for people not familiar with Os Saltimbancos, it’s the Brazilian version of the Italian musical I Musicanti; it’s based in the tale of the Bremen musicians, turned into a communist allegory. Chico Buarque sneaked it into Brazil during the very anti-communist military dictatorship. it’s amazing. 010
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025i 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” 020
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025there’s a portuguese expression, “pensando com meus botões”, literally “thinking with my buttons”, for when you’re introspecting / pondering things on your own i never used it, bc every time i thought of using it, my brain wanted to say “borbotões” instead of “botões”, and made me very confused 110
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025my understanding is that a good portion of their “support tickets” currently are people with doubts about details of the law itself rather than technical difficulties using the system 000
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025maybe the way to go really is to have just the dedicated glossary page and then just make sure to call attention to it on the home page so people don’t miss out on the fact that it exists… or would be good to just straight up make a whole (optional) “onboarding” explaining the law in plain language 100
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025i guess the problem with “definition on hover” is that for keyboard it’d have to work on focus instead, and then I’m creating extra focusable elements that get in the way of tabbing through actually interactive elements. a link to a definition would be the same, but it does feel kind of disruptive 100
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025i've worked with people whose whole thing is applying tech to help in public education, and i see ppl who have their hearts in the right place but like, at some point you have to shift from "let's make tech that helps teachers get more done in less time" to "we need to hire more teachers" 010
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025tech can definitely help people but i'd also like to note that outside of people using tech in just openly hostile ways with only profit as incentive, there's also cases of well-intentioned people trying to use tech to help others where it's just not the most efficient or appropriate way of helping 110
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025the issue is that this is a super interactive system w/ moving parts where users will be jumping all over the place, but it deals with laws & some specific terms from the law text have to be used to avoid being legally ambiguous, but it has to be accessible to general populace 100
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025i was thinking of having one dedicated glossary page but also being able to check term meanings in place with a tooltip, but i haven't found examples of tooltips being used that way so i'm unsure if that's just a terrible idea sjhdfjs 100
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025if you could define the unusual word in plain body text the first time it appears it would be better, but... if it's something that's going to be used all over in multiple pages to be browsed in no specific order, there's no "first time it appears"... 100
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025thinking about WCAG Guideline 3.1 – Readable... in 3.1.3 Unusual Words, one of the sufficient techniques is "linking to definitions". would having a unusual term's definition appear on hover in a tooltip-style, rather than linking away to a definition, be "un-semantic"? 100
Reposted by Sofia SimankeYabai @birdmad.bsky.social · 02/06/2025一畑薬師 #photography #birdmad_photo 2285
Reposted by Sofia SimankeEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 31/05/2025Impressive. Very nice. Now let's see the investors. 951281
Reposted by Sofia SimankeRobb Owen @robbowen.digital · 01/06/2025Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices. What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?robbowen.digitalLooking elsewhere - Robb OwenAgainst the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here? 1314437
Reposted by Sofia SimankeOregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Meet Nigel 💕 Found wandering behind an apartment building, this baby opossum was rescued by @cwcwildlife, who worked with wildlife officials to bring him to the zoo. 1394829488
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 31/05/2025as a user i’ve preferred block editors bc WYSIWYG are usually wonky & unpredictable in my experience 😵💫 020
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 30/05/2025time passes and things change, but I will always be a shill for ayumi hamasaki - LOVEppears (1999) 010
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 000
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 30/05/2025my dream is for Brazil to move on from using WhatsApp as the default messaging app so i can leave it behind and never touch it again 110
Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 30/05/2025having to do some heavy “spring cleaning” on figma files i worked on in a chaotic manner with different iterations all over the place is truly daunting. time to face my hubris. 000
Reposted by Sofia SimankeDominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 29/05/2025"We don't like Nazis, but not supporting and paying them is even worse." is a hell of a statement for any company to make. Do not use Substack. 16539265