One year and one day after receiving my settled status I officially became naturalised and am now a British citizen.
I’m grateful for having been welcomed here (despite Brexit!) and making it “official” with the country I now call my home and for Portugal to allow dual citiz...
A while back I worked on a project with an existing seven year old codebase and it was my task to refresh the design of it without a rebuild. This meant that I found a few constraints and one of them was allowing full bleed components (like a newsletter banner) which didn’t ...
I'm not gonna lie - I'm quite disappointed in myself that I still haven't got my poop together and gone back to doing this monthly. I managed to write some blog posts since March but all those happened because I milked really hard the surge of energy I had at that moment.
As...
Last weekend my husband and I started to watch Ted Lasso and as soon as the character Ted sets up their new home in Richmond, it reminded me of one of my worst job interviews because I’m pretty sure I cried in front of Ted’s local.
Let’s start from their (the interviewers) p...
In the television show Masterchef there was an episode where the judges did a test on what they call “basic skills”. One of the judges often says that in order to be a “true chef”, you must know how to quickly and finely cut onions. It was really intense and they were lookin...
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The one year anniversary of the "never-ending" March has just passed. One year ago, my co-organisers and I were in limbo on whether the events we were running would happen in person or not. That week I was helping to run a London CSS and an IndieWebCamp. Both events were mov...
The thing about loss is that it just doesn't seem to end. It gets easier though. One day you wake you and you're feeling fine but one insignificant action somehow opens the gates for the sadness to creep in. And then that's it. The floodgates open and the tears come out.
If ...
Hidde invited me to share what my typical day looks like. I saw the chain going around and I read a few from people I know. I thought it was really interesting and I had a strange feeling of relief when I read about real humans and the fact that, actually, they are very simi...
Every once in a while I realise that I have been rejected for something I didn’t even apply for.
A couple of jobs ago, I was in the common area having lunch when a work colleague asked me if I had a Twitter account. “Yes”, I replied and told him my Twitter handle. I saw him ...
The whole September I was quite overwhelmed with work and life. I remember that in September "The Social Dilemma" came out. I don't remember a lot more weirdly.
In October I managed to take two weeks off! Visited the Isle of Wight for the first time to celebrate my birthda...
When my Smashing Magazine article went live a couple of months ago a small discussion happened regarding my choice of words where I said I could have a “one true version” of yourself online.
Behind my two extremes of either silence or self deprecating jokes, is a socia...
I’ve been wanting to create my own crossword puzzles since I was a kid, but never quite got around to it. Earlier this year I decided to renew my commitment, and tweeted a bold claim: Mark my words: within 3 months I'm going to publish my first self-constructed crossword puzzle, and within 3 years I'm […]
The highlight of the month was: My article for Smashing Magazine went live!! Please read (and share if you think someone else would like it too)! 🤗
Bookmarks from August
Web development
System UIcons by Corey Ginnivan.
Transparent textures by Mike Hearn.
Debugging HTML W...
Last week my article for Smashing Magazine went live! I was quite nervous and anxious but... so far nobody yelled at me - which is good! It was my first ever experience writing something slightly serious and going through an editing process.
I really want to be proud of mys...
Many of us, myself included, have made jokes about how we are our family’s tech support in an annoyed tone. I now regret those jokes. I wasn’t empathetic and I regret it.
We expect parental controls to help children navigate the internet. The funny thing is that children hav...
I've been thinking about this bookmark page especially because styling wise it is incomplete and a bit ugly and one day someone will call me out. But that isn't the only thing I've been thinking about: all those days (almost all this year) when I thought that I've done nothi...
I'm a big fan of static site generators and since last year I've been using Hugo for a lot for simple and small marketing/product websites for clients. However, I don't know Go and I struggle a bit to remember all the logic that work in the templates so... I do a lot of sear...
The news are quiet now and it is on purpose. There's protests happening. There's things happening. They just aren't showing it anymore. #BlackLivesMatter
I can't believe that I also have to say this but... wear a mask!
My bookmark list was getting big so here's a couple of t...
Back in March (which feels like it was 6 months ago), I helped organise the IndieWebCamp London and one of the sessions was about analytics and the IndieWeb. At the time I blurted something without much context and I think I need to explain myself.
Analytics on this blog
Eve...
