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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 · 17/06/2025
LET’S POP SOME BOTTLES 🍾
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 06/06/2025
ooooooooooo
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Design 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
A graphic titled "Design Systems News" features a quote about "SASSUI: Illustrations for Your Design Systems and Docs": "a collection of free, high-quality illustrations designed specifically for documentation and design systems." The design includes a grey background with an orange accent and a footer displaying "news.design.systems."
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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The Guardian have changed the headline for the *third time* today.
Screenshot of a headline on The Guardian website that reads:

“ Transgender
EHRC commissioner calls for
'period of correction' after legal ruling
Akua Reindorf said law never permitted self-ID, but trans campaigners call remarks 'profoundly unhelpful'”

Pictured are a group of trans people in a pride march, covered in flags and signs that say “trans rights now”
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 06/06/2025
In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children
NBC News

Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident.

Gastonia, N.C., police charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter charges after allowing the victim and his brother to walk home alone from a nearby grocery store.
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Mia [data-css=poetic] @miriam.codes · 06/06/2025
Major 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
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 06/06/2025
i just wish i could use left and right to cycle through files in a folder inside the Preview app :(
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 06/06/2025
seeing this is just reminding me of how much i love Ed Mort
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 06/06/2025
i have never been more excited for something in my life
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025
but 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
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025
i 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
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025
one 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.
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025
the defense contractor shebacle bummed me out when i heard about it
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025
i’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??
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025
my very small dog is very upset about not being fed today. he does not understand the concept of fasting before a medical exam.
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025
they 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…
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025
the 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 🫠
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 04/06/2025
and 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
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Haskell programming language @haskell.org · 03/06/2025
In 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!
A lower-case greek lambda in the colours of the lesbian pride flag
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 03/06/2025
yikes…. extremely disappointed to see this on flyio
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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 don’t even have a mac mini… but i’m obsessed with this…
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025
isn’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”…
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025
for 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.
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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
there’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
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025
my 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
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025
maybe 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
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025
i 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
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025
i'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"
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025
tech 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
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025
the 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
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025
i 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
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025
if 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"...
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 02/06/2025
thinking 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"?
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Yabai @birdmad.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
一畑薬師 #photography #birdmad_photo
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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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Gil @gildaswise.com · 30/05/2025
vencido
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 31/05/2025
Impressive. Very nice. Now let's see the investors.
Builder.ai, the artificial intelligence startup that recently announced plans to declare bankruptcy, faked business with the Indian social-media startup VerSe Innovation for years to falsely inflate its sales, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg and people with direct knowledge of the practice.

The two companies routinely billed one another for roughly the same amounts between 2021 and 2024, documents reviewed by Bloomberg show, as part of an alleged practice known as "round-tripping" that the people said Builder.ai used to inflate revenue figures it presented to investors. In many cases, products and services weren’t actually provided to either company for these payments, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential information.Lead investors: Funding Rounds
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Lead Investors
B Capital, Google, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Alpha Wave Global
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Robb Owen @robbowen.digital · 01/06/2025
Back 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.digital
Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen
Against 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?
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Meet 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.
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 31/05/2025
as a user i’ve preferred block editors bc WYSIWYG are usually wonky & unpredictable in my experience 😵‍💫
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 30/05/2025
time passes and things change, but I will always be a shill for ayumi hamasaki - LOVEppears (1999)
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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 · 30/05/2025
my 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
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 30/05/2025
having 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.
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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · 30/05/2025
bless
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Dominic 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.
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