Jen is slowly becoming America's Old Lady Name. I plan to embrace this by forming a ladies' club with my fellow San Francisco Jens. This club, called Jenanigans, will meet at my house to drink wine, do puzzles, and reflect on how life has changed since the 1900s. Tell your Jens.

developers who don't run prettier on save will never know the dopamine reward signal you get when you write valid code and watch it reformat if it ever doesn't reformat, I start looking for syntax errors

I will be grateful to the OG bloggers forever. They were bold and honest and unapologetic in a way that I had never seen before, and gave me the courage to be who I wanted to be, not who others wanted me to be. I hope you have peace now, @dooce. You changed my life.

the two options for furniture in america are a $85 table made of spit and paper and a $4,485 table made of wood out of a tree that some one kissed every day

A YouTube star who went viral as a toddler talks about the resentment she feels toward her parents, who told her she had to keep making videos so they could maintain their lifestyle Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content https://t.co/H9yorS1h67

I scuffed a woman's car with my car. I apologized and told her to send me an estimate for repairs. We spent the next two weeks exchanging friendly texts until she excitedly updated me that she had managed to crowd-source and get it fixed for $28. Can we all be like this?

(Today I was trying to order tile, but realized I forgot to bring my wallet to my desk. So I got up and retrieved it, which blew my cover. He was like "What do you need a WALLET for if it's a work meeting?" and started barking.)

I used to think I'd be a great dog parent who raised a reasonable animal. Now, when I need to make a phone call, I have to pretend it's a work meeting, because my dog hates phone calls. Also I have to look at the screen even though nothing is there, otherwise he knows I'm faking.

I also notice I'm spending much more of my time thinking about feature design, architecture, etc. It's great to spend less time typing stuff and more time inventing stuff.

AI coding partners are just googling it but with fewer steps, and I'm here for it. I wrote a VS Code extension last weekend, something I had no mental model for. The examples didn't involve the functionality I needed, but Copilot just kept pulling me forward until I understood.

The CSS course by @JoshWComeau is one of the best investments I've ever made, and it's inspiring me to dig deep in other "known" areas too. Has anyone taken an online deep-dive SQL course that really impressed you?

I said earlier that the wide availability of cheap clothing has made people lose touch with the cost of making clothes given fair wages. So let's talk about how much a button-up shirt should cost. 🧵

I think about this all the time. I'm living life on the easiest mode possible, and I still have a million lingering todos, a mildly questionable diet, and the hydration level of a tumbleweed that has just caught fire. How are you people doing this?

My PSA for 2023 so far: If you are in your nice deep full-of-water bathtub, and you would like to sit up straighter, do not push too hard off the end of the tub with one heel. Your foot can break right through the wall of the tub, which, it bears repeating, is full of water.

This is my very first zero-gift Christmas (though one side of the family have been zero-gift for years), and it's everything I dreamed it would be. I keep feeling like I should be stressed, and then remembering why I'm not.

Voting Zod for best JS library of 2022

Can everyone please stop adding their Mastodon usernames to their Twitter names? It’s really frustrating for screen reader users. Hearing them being read out loud when scrolling down my timeline isn’t fun. Add it to your bio or make a pinned tweet instead.

My family decided to just have Snacksgiving this year, and it was the best Thanksgiving we've ever done. Everyone was so relaxed and ready to hang out, with almost no dishes and zero people lost to the dreaded Ongoing Kitchen Struggle. Snacksgiving! You heard it here first.

This entire thread. Twitter is a critical comms tool for so many reasons, the prospect of losing it is incredibly worrying. I'm really hoping something else emerges to fill that gap.

🎶In the arms of the angel🎶