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The opposite of shame is vulnerability

I’ve had a long year. I spent the first half on maternity leave and struggled quite a bit. Raising a baby is hard enough, and then adding the constant worry of milestones and development, their health, getting all the information to ensure you’re doing things right, all the ...

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Live with it for a while

In the course of building products, you'll likely experience moments when you're unsure of a certain screen, flow, condition, label, idea, whatever.Maybe this button doesn't feel right. Or the name of this feature feels unresolved. Or some color is jarring, but kind of int...

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I gave a talk at FFConf!

Two weeks ago, I spoke at FFConf. Yes! Me! Last year, I made a little shy appearance in one of Sophie's slides, but it was the big deal this year. I mentioned in a toot a while back how special FFConf is for me. Years ago, my friend Paul told me about it, and it turned out ...

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People and Blogs interview

Some weeks ago, I was so privileged to have been invited to chat about myself and my blog at Manu's new series, People and Blogs. I really enjoyed following someone else's prompts. I never rationalised some decisions about this blog out loud, so it was a fascinating exercise...

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Commodities, generics, and software

Once a product category proves popular, it's common for more companies to enter the market. Eventually, many options appear that are essentially mostly the same. Now we've got something that quacks like a commodity.Once we've got a commodity, generics eventually follow. De...

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Heard Something, Read Something, Saw Something [#16]

Hey there!Here’s the 16th installment of my popular Heard Something, Read Something, Saw Something series.So, what do we have this time...Heard SomethingLately I've been enjoying listening to discussions about free will. Do we have it? If so, how much? Always? Sometimes? N...

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Look back less

I have a theory.One of the reasons companies have a hard time moving forward is because they've tangled themselves in the near past. Eyes aimed backwards rather than ahead, staring at the dark, feet in their own concrete.They've trapped themselves looking for certainty whe...

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Could it be that maybe LinkedIn was the answer after all? If so, I lost the game.

With Twitter imploding and people (myself included) trying to move to multiple similar apps, I was following everyone I knew numerous times. It may not look like it, but I can be a bit shy! If we're "Twitter/conference friends", you probably noticed me clicking the follow bu...

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I am back to doing tech talks!

Well, well, well. Who would have thought I would give this another go after pouring my heart a few years ago in a blog post? But I did! And nothing terrible happened! I've had a silly idea of something I wanted to build for a long time, and I was daydreaming of turning it in...

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Experimenting with using box-shadow as a border on top of a grid-gap

Updated on the 21st March 2025 If you're here, you're probably interested in this gap decorations proposal too. I need to preface this post by saying: bare with me. I was without doing much coding for over a year, so maybe I'm wrong, or everyone already knows this. I...

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Seattle Xcoders this Thursday

Seattle Xcoders meetups are at 7 pm on the first, third, and fifth Thursdays of each month, lately at the Bale Breaker x Yonder Cider Taproom in Seattle, in Ballard. We meet outside, usually in the uncovered area that has some benches and small gas fire pits. (Not actually ...

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Overthinking online participation with my image

Editing and manipulating someone isn't new. But now that it is more accessible than ever for anyone to do, it feels as if every day I could be risking my safety. As someone who has been online for over 20 years, the majority of those as a child, teenager and young adult who ...

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Some of my favourite memories with my dad

When I moved to the UK some years ago, I developed a strange new fear that I was unfamiliar with. Despite living alone for many years at that point, it was the first time I was living abroad. For the first time, I realised that I was hundreds and hundreds of miles away from ...

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Apple Intelligence

As WWDC draws near, anticipation of Apple’s long-rumored VR headset is high. The company is widely expected to announce an impressive, albeit expensive new product at the June 5 Keynote event. In short: people expect Apple to make a strong showing in this field. People are justifiably less confident about Apple’s prospective plans in the […]

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One year later

My maternity leave has ended! I was one year at home with my little one. But, it's really like they say: the days are long, but the years are short. Around six months ago, I wrote a blog post called Matrescence which resonated with a few people. Meanwhile, as I found some he...

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52 Floppy Pickup

On the latest Accidental Tech Podcast, John reminisced about the early days of the Mac, when a single 3.5″ floppy disk drive was typically used not only to boot a Mac, but also to run any applications, and to save any user data. He described the painstaking process of needing to insert a different disk […]

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Spelunking Apple’s Open Source

Since the earliest days of Mac OS X, Apple has complied with the licenses for the dozens of open source components it includes in the OS by posting (sometimes a little belatedly) updated versions of the source code to its Open Source at Apple web page. This resource is useful primarily to developers, but may […]

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Mastrescence

This post has a content note of pregnancy, birth & mention of previous loss. Visit the link directly if you're okay with reading it.

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Disciplined Innovation

Apple’s macOS 13 “Ventura” beta features a major redesign of the System Preferences application. In addition to renaming it “System Settings,” Apple revamped the interface with an organization style that is far more reminiscent of the iOS “table view” organization than of the macOS status quo: At first blush, there are apparent advantages to this […]

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Dump FogBugz

Once upon a time, there was a fabulous service called FogBugz. Well, technically it still exists, but over the past many years, since it was sold off by Fog Creek Software, it has both stagnated and diminished in reliability as a substantial number of us long-time users has grudgingly continued to use it. Several months […]