Nostr notes by Ana Rodrigues

Wondering if anyone knows of any proper human made CSS themed ...

2026-04-07T16:09:54Z

Wondering if anyone knows of any proper human made CSS themed pins, badges or iron-on patches? Looking to see what I can add to wear to #CSSDay

oh it's infuriating. Imagine the amount of cables and devices ...

2026-03-17T11:37:33Z

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oh it's infuriating. Imagine the amount of cables and devices people assumed were broken because nothing would happen (besides charging) when they plugged it to their computers!

Yesterday I learned that there's data cables and charging ...

2026-03-17T11:34:45Z

Yesterday I learned that there's data cables and charging cables. Only yesterday I learned this. 🫠

Oooooo look what just arrived! 🧡 I really need to pull it ...

2026-03-04T12:20:47Z

Oooooo look what just arrived! 🧡

I really need to pull it together and submit something 🤔

#GoodInternet

I've been told that I am too honest for my own good but I ...

2026-02-18T09:47:56Z

I've been told that I am too honest for my own good but I feel like I have to share this: I cried all day last Friday because of that viral AI article.

I cried so much that I gave myself a fake hangover from dehydration.

For the first time in over a decade working only on the "front" of the front-end was finally seen as valuable. Now the rug is being pulled.

If you cried too, I'm sorry.

A Lord of the Flies TV show did not need to happen 2026. We need ...

2026-02-09T09:10:03Z

A Lord of the Flies TV show did not need to happen 2026. We need more examples of love and human kindness. We do not need fictional stories of evil. We already have the real evil ones on the news and on your local Facebook group.

People who have stopped using GitHub or GitLab: what did you ...

2026-02-05T12:12:36Z

People who have stopped using GitHub or GitLab: what did you replace it with?

I have been feeling nervous for a while but now I believe it is ...

2026-01-12T17:07:44Z

I have been feeling nervous for a while but now I believe it is time to finally try to move emails & accounts from my free Gmail and Outlook accounts... for "reasons".

It's a truly overwhelming task. My Outlook account is more than 20 years old.

thank you 💜 💜 💜 it's been a long stretch!

2026-01-07T09:58:03Z

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thank you 💜 💜 💜 it's been a long stretch!

The last time I wrote a year in review was in 2019. I ended it ...

2026-01-06T11:59:35Z

The last time I wrote a year in review was in 2019. I ended it with “have a healthy 2020” and we all know how that went.

Don't blame me if 2026 is shit too. https://ohhelloana.blog/2025-no-sleep/

unrelated but related: we noticed that in our slack, the Slack AI ...

2025-10-15T13:25:45Z

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unrelated but related: we noticed that in our slack, the Slack AI many times ignores what I say and another colleague (who isn't a man) say to the point it has become a whole joke 🙃

But in all seriousness: it can ruin someone's career especially if they are in a PIP.

💯 all of those!

2025-10-15T13:05:02Z

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💯 all of those!

omg it's so funny - in my earlier response I nearly brought ...

2025-10-15T12:17:41Z

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omg it's so funny - in my earlier response I nearly brought the pub as an example 😁

exactly same. I think this is something I try to share when I ...

2025-10-15T11:04:34Z

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exactly same.

I think this is something I try to share when I talk about it and perhaps I am being as clear as I intend.

My goal is to be in control and, to me, control isn't owning everything, is choosing what to own and what to discard.

The opposite creates overwhelm which leads to paralysis and nothing gets done.

I get it. As someone who also tries to teach the concept of POSSE ...

2025-10-15T10:55:48Z

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I get it. As someone who also tries to teach the concept of POSSE to others I am aware that I don't fully embrace it.
I am lazy and don't have time to go all in but my other justification is that I am OK with loosing some pixels I share.

Like, I don't care or miss the tweets I posted that I have now abandoned. The things I care about, I make sure they are on my blog whatever shape it may be. But that's fully my decision.

I want to draw & paint but I am not skilled enough to do do a ...

2025-08-08T07:17:26Z

I want to draw & paint but I am not skilled enough to do do a realistic looking thing. But I can't help but trying so the result always looks... poor. But somehow, I can't seem to deviate and create something more fluid and "unrealistic" and "imperfect". I don't know where to go from this. #art

I have the afternoon off today to do three exciting things: ramen ...

2025-08-06T10:09:16Z

I have the afternoon off today to do three exciting things: ramen lunch, collect second hand furniture and take myself to an art gallery. 🌸

I had forgotten how beautiful this music video is 💙 ...

2025-07-18T09:09:52Z

I had forgotten how beautiful this music video is 💙 https://youtu.be/Rb4lgOiHBZo

No. But I turn it into a blog post soon :)

2025-07-11T08:12:20Z

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No. But I turn it into a blog post soon :)

This was my favourite slide from my talk at #MKGN yesterday. It ...

2025-07-11T07:40:55Z

This was my favourite slide from my talk at #MKGN yesterday. It was a great night - lovely venue, great people, and fantastic talks!
Thank you so much for listening to me and for all the wonderful chats 💙

mine and yours probably flew together to this side of the pond ...

2025-07-09T11:14:12Z

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mine and yours probably flew together to this side of the pond 😁

It's 2005 and this is the last detail you add to your fan ...

2025-06-18T10:18:48Z

It's 2005 and this is the last detail you add to your fan site re-design that includes an amazing header image with the latest Photoshop brushes and textures trend. A trend that other teenagers were setting of course.

#CSSDay friends: slides finally published after a much needed ...

2025-06-08T13:47:10Z

#CSSDay friends: slides finally published after a much needed long sleep.

View with the resources: https://noti.st/anarodrigues/abfj0M/refactoring-css

View with the notes:
https://noti.st/anarodrigues/abfj0M/slides

💜 thank you! Wish you were here this year!

2025-06-07T09:59:12Z

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💜 thank you! Wish you were here this year!

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2025-06-07T09:08:00Z

Time for more CSS!
Hanging out at my first CSS Café 💞

Gutted i missed this!!

2025-05-22T13:34:19Z

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Gutted i missed this!!

I resonate with everything in this open letter. I moved to the UK ...

2025-05-14T13:07:10Z

I resonate with everything in this open letter. I moved to the UK 10 years ago and I am now naturalised. By luck clearly. Did it "at the right time".

But Keir's speech reminded me of the hate crimes following Brexit and my stomach sank. Knowing that even though I have a blue passport, the moment I open my mouth and people hear my accent, I will be othered.

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/community/letter-we-are-not-strangers/

ohhh I will look into cel-shading style! The assistant asked ...

2025-05-08T08:25:52Z

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ohhh I will look into cel-shading style! The assistant asked where was the light source coming from and I realised I didn't properly think about that before 😁

thank you! right - I think I want a balance of both only because ...

2025-05-07T13:54:17Z

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thank you! right - I think I want a balance of both only because I don't think I have the ability to fully achieve either?

Today I'm going to bring my make-up brushes which seem to be more appropriate to those fine details 😁

Okay #art friends, be kind here, this is a vulnerable post! ...

2025-05-07T13:39:29Z

Okay #art friends, be kind here, this is a vulnerable post!
I’ve been attending some art classes once a week to force myself to have some dedicated hours to relax. This is my first ever “anything” done on a canvas but it’s missing something and I don’t know exactly what to do. I know I’m missing the “eyelashes” of the Venus fly trap but… I am lost on what to do next. Any suggestions? #MastoArt

I knew that better nuance would appear once published and after ...

2025-05-07T07:36:51Z

I knew that better nuance would appear once published and after chatting to people.

Employers send people to conferences that have a great marketing at promising a ROI. They like code-heavy, AI or whatever is the latest flashy thing but ROI is hard to prove because no 40 min talk will fix your problems.

https://ohhelloana.blog/forty-mins-to-change-your-life/

oh now I can’t unread this 😁

2025-04-24T06:46:09Z

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oh now I can’t unread this 😁

I have a little bit over a month to correctly say ...

2025-04-24T06:27:29Z

I have a little bit over a month to correctly say “specificity” out loud without fumbling!

Godspeed!!!!

2025-03-29T11:40:22Z

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Godspeed!!!!

Fuming at myself that I can’t live post as well as ...

2025-03-29T11:37:18Z

Fuming at myself that I can’t live post as well as Josh Tumath (npub1km8…p06k) during their talk!!

I'm starting to get frustrated at myself when I catch myself ...

2025-03-13T08:50:30Z

I'm starting to get frustrated at myself when I catch myself saying to people "yeah, I have little draft about this topic but never published it".

If I am OK with an unpolished personal website, I gotta be OK with unpolished thoughts too.

Anyway, here it goes.

New post: https://ohhelloana.blog/in-defense-of-unpolished-websites/ where I ramble about how I don't want to destroy the viewsource experience of my little blog.

I saw this post the other but didn't reply because i ...

2025-02-23T09:52:11Z

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I saw this post the other but didn't reply because i didn't have a useful answer. Anyway, here I am painting my nails and thinking how I wish I was listening to blog posts but with the author's voice rather than a machine.

me too!!! 😁

2025-02-14T21:37:25Z

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me too!!! 😁

fwiw it has a jacuzzi in the rooftop! :D

2025-02-14T14:14:24Z

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fwiw it has a jacuzzi in the rooftop! :D

I haven't written a year review on my blog since 2020 - ...

2025-01-06T12:59:43Z

I haven't written a year review on my blog since 2020 - things still feel bleak since and I'm a "cup half empty" type of person who struggles to practise gratitude. Perhaps something to work on in 2025...

💓

2024-12-13T19:23:21Z

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💓

We recently bought our first family home and it’s been a bit ...

2024-11-27T09:29:54Z

We recently bought our first family home and it’s been a bit stressful to bring it up to modern standards.

And because I’ve been a bit offline, I’ve been a bit anxious with the usual tech FOMO.

But yeah, I may not be the best front-end developer in the world, but at least my CSS isn’t on a “fuse box inside the staircase” level of mess-up. 🙃

Me too! User and supporter! ...

2024-11-01T15:56:37Z

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Me too! User and supporter! https://bsky.app/profile/ohhelloana.blog

I've always wanted the opportunity to talk about the ...

2024-10-31T11:17:53Z

I've always wanted the opportunity to talk about the #IndieWeb at a meet-up, so I'm pretty stoked to be speaking at the next OpenUK Digital alongside Calum Ryan (npub1xfz…xnxg)

It's an online event at lunchtime, so if your extra screen is free, join us! 😁

https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/303912333/

I never worked in a cube to be fair. How different is it from ...

2024-10-26T06:41:19Z

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I never worked in a cube to be fair. How different is it from having your own office at home?

Open plans at home really burn me out. Cooking, fan on, timers, machines making noise, TV, family chatting through all this, TV louder as result etc 😂

My untested theory is that both offices and houses now being open ...

2024-10-25T19:26:45Z

My untested theory is that both offices and houses now being open plan have put us in constant sensory overload.

Maybe one day, I will write about how it messed me up when I ...

2024-10-21T12:09:21Z

Maybe one day, I will write about how it messed me up when I realised through Google Console that many visitors to my blog are landing there because they mistake my URL for "pro-ana" content. I didn't know what that meant at the time, and I was deep in the struggle of accepting my new post-partum body. But maybe not.

I'm back from holidays and I got a few busy weeks ahead: ...

2024-10-18T07:17:02Z

I'm back from holidays and I got a few busy weeks ahead:

🎙️ Speaking at OpenUK Digital: https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/303912333/

🎤 Speaking at https://halfstackconf.com/london

🎟️ Attending FFConf (npub1z2w…pxl4)

🎤 & attending GitNation - tech conferences (npub1tt0…uy3m) https://jsnation.us (remote)

See you there? ✨

Hey, are you a web dev and got training budget left? Or can ...

2024-09-18T12:57:05Z

Hey, are you a web dev and got training budget left? Or can transfer the budget to someone else? Then these two conferences are happening in the UK soon!

This doesn't apply to you? That's okay - boost it then please! 💙

https://webdevconf.com/events/2024/

https://2024.ffconf.org/

My no-nuance take on the recent discourse: I am not less than the ...

2024-09-02T14:15:25Z

My no-nuance take on the recent discourse:
I am not less than the other people in the IndieWeb community for not having a fancy, automated, cool setup on my personal website. Nobody has ever made me feel that way. It doesn't matter if all you have is a simple page with your name and email.
If there is one place where you can do whatever you want and how you want is your personal website. I'm lucky to have found a community that supports this.

I always feel self-conscious about asking things online because I ...

2024-08-01T13:07:48Z

I always feel self-conscious about asking things online because I fear people will realise I am not that smart, but here it goes.
What is the benefit of doing:
`.my-class {
&__thing {`

vs

`.my-class {}
.my-class__thing {`

Is it only to make it easier to rename `my-class` if you need to, or are there more benefits I am completely missing out on?

I prefer the 2nd because it makes it easier to search & find but I see the 1st often and, of course, I am filled with self-doubt over my choices