2026-06-03T05:34:46Z https://yabu.me Piper Thunstrom https://yabu.me/npub1wvv8dr9w49k6hc9qudpswmgk0v3y9k59rfgaftc0rqqmy3mmld7q3sh8te https://cloudflare-disconnect-nazis.ngmx.com/system/accounts/avatars/111/116/031/610/248/952/original/345f2b3de7118735.png https://cloudflare-disconnect-nazis.ngmx.com/system/accounts/avatars/111/116/031/610/248/952/original/345f2b3de7118735.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9y4fv5p0ts8r8uj6g3duh9dz9r2ajkfwzme8varw0qjtwq2jnnhqzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcqvmahw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9tpmuyvw7tu655s2pzl8995can3elf45umj2z09ypgmkew30uvdgu47f0p'>nevent1q…7f0p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>css color 5 is really exciting generally. With the syntax above, you don&#39;t even need to craft from the same color gamut. You can have rgb colors as the from to hsl, for example, and it does the necessary conversion for you.<br/><br/>To answer the original question, if I need quick prototype colors, I&#39;m using css named colors, which is not everyone&#39;s cup of tea. 2026-05-04T19:25:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxeyeqachmunde6drnhcl3h6tq99ardmkfrqdv6ycfnfd9s9fm2eczype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahc2q5uwg Okay, because I want to say a thing in a talk, and I want to see if others agree before I say it:<br/><br/>#IndieWeb types:<br/><br/>Self hosting does not need to mean &#34;hardware you own&#34; and can include &#34;hardware you rent&#34;. (EG Would a VPS count as self hosting?)<br/><br/>Happy to hear reasoning for either side or both if you&#39;re landing in the middle.<br/><br/>(To be clear: I will be saying this, but whether I say it without qualifiers will depend on if this is largely accepted.) 2026-04-30T19:49:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsps63qcjxgjt7vn6uvz50mhpj53dqsf8h8rg5da97amhv2uwux6kczype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcumnw60 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz4dey4kkttgvltkv0mqvyc48d4vlvh4n59g3ecwd9cj72299gw5c89cquj'>nevent1q…cquj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh god that first one. Friend, come learn to code for real and meet some open source folks. People not caring about your niche applications is normal. 2026-04-19T17:45:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqz4xdch9j5czmcj8ctf7lnsd7vw76awxptav8nujmc5p5psew08czype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcfge0yl Open to suggestions, but I&#39;m looking to scratch a very particular itch. <br/><br/>I like the basic gameplay loop of survival games and/or farming games. Collecting stuff, going home to build a base, leaving again with better gear, bigger bag, going further and further with time.<br/><br/>I literally can not handle hunger mechanics and extremely dislike hard calendar and time management systems in these games. I stopped playing Minecraft with the update that made food go from healing to a management bar that could kill you. Stardew Valleys day cycle and calendar mean I&#39;ve literally never finished that game.<br/><br/>Do you know of games that fit this mold that don&#39;t include these kinds of mechanics. I want them designed around this. Lots of games let you turn this off, but you can feel the lack of the mechanic when you do.<br/><br/>Bonus points if it&#39;s available on the switch. 2026-03-17T03:03:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfw769dp0l9v0z40f3dgssc63w7kuekxlucxezj58gmsvu6qya4agzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahc4ryrec Okay, someone is looking for accessibility focused reading and it&#39;s been so long since I started from zero, I&#39;m going to crowdsource it.<br/><br/>My accessibility network, what work would you point a newer person to in 2026?<br/><br/>(Please feel free to spread! I know the accessibility focused community isn&#39;t a monolith and would also love works outside my corner.) 2025-12-22T21:10:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgkhc6v3t88rsczf9q8j24prgs6ytufqzyzr2mfucv2war9vukwcczype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahc8rd99x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxgzx86d7evlc0v3huhjthk84y2n3vazhxr5pccwzk9qwq7ty9sms98e4we'>nevent1q…e4we</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This did fix it, thank you. Why is this option not in the UI. (I do not expect an answer from you, just. Ugh.) 2025-12-10T00:07:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9n63anvr045h4trvc35meft67jz484j9qdfck8730mghmvt38x3qzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahccwlx4u Youtube has changed the closed captions. The text is _much darker_ against the. . . black background. The yellows even!<br/><br/>Like, CC needs to be _maximum contrast_ who approved this? 2025-12-09T23:58:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyzg3p9nek5dswjh5jq7le02ecglceqgczkd5pv7sudmd46r6q2lgzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcjyt98m Advice for community managers:<br/><br/>Use the Olivia Hill rule.<br/><br/>It&#39;s surprisingly easy to enforce:<br/><br/>Fascists get really upset and will talk to you about why the rule is bad.<br/><br/>You then ban them.<br/><br/>That&#39;s it, that&#39;s all the work it takes!<br/> <img src="https://cloudflare-disconnect-nazis.ngmx.com/system/media_attachments/files/115/545/396/280/163/149/original/edee501ecfafbb2b.png"> <br/> 2025-11-14T01:19:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2mm5qy8u920vcjv6qfnz0l2rcgnu46metq7yvqnm79r6pnswtpugzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahc8wnc8n You ever notice the sleight of hand where companies laying off, reducing hours, or literally stealing pay is expected and normal. But a speculator not getting the fully anticipated return is a &#34;loss?&#34; 2025-11-02T19:30:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2mml6c68jpkhgdfhxrtlsmrk4s0uldnk02ksm8hkeul3cuu537aqzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcfr7knr So I had a bad thought, and went and tested it.<br/><br/>Want the jquery node lookup syntax but want to use the browser APIs directly?<br/><br/>`let $ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document)`<br/><br/>You won&#39;t get the mutation methods or the animations, but you do get:<br/><br/>`$(&#34;#my-cool-thing&#34;)`<br/><br/>which returns a NodeList.<br/><br/>Do with this cursed code as you will.<br/><br/>#javascript #vanilla 2025-09-23T17:25:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstc5zjrpdn9we2rcx3dnpayr0d0wrzrx8jk9pdwufmp7myghsnltszype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahc43vzxa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8r880hk0tten0g32aulwxyetj3ng3fzyk7e52rp64xk7947lsarqmtymet'>nevent1q…ymet</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>To be glib: if it only works in chromium, it&#39;s not the web. It&#39;s a Google app. 2025-07-25T20:30:02Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8r880hk0tten0g32aulwxyetj3ng3fzyk7e52rp64xk7947lsarqzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcu8x507 Last post: Okay, the tech is neat, but don&#39;t use anything that only works in Chrome. Their hit rate for standards is weakening every year. 2025-07-25T20:27:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg4ga73tn5zs5tahxug6hafs23kg5nd0ugqd9mte93dkk4wy326gqzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahce734fs Shout out to the time I discovered the project `panopticon` at a job. It literally was tracking every engineers commits. Both for the company and for open source, fun, personal projects.<br/><br/>The readme made it clear management found it hilarious. But being questioned on why I had more commits in my off hours than at work has left a sour taste in my mouth since.<br/><br/>(No shit, my weird creative coding projects with lots of experimentation ended up generating more commits than rebuilding systems that absolutely could not fail. Funny that.) 2025-07-25T03:26:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9mg87t8cznzcd6c344fmjptce9a5wtrgzvtjcpjn0p322gcmr3ngzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahc4nfy9l I am, yet again, poring over a decade of texts on the right way to do django auth and I would love for there to be a one stop shop that gives me the steps _in order_ with decision points.<br/><br/>Instead of the &#34;yes, django auth.User is bad, but you&#39;ll need to read my blog post (which also has a tiny sliver of the problem) for details.&#34;<br/><br/>Anyone in my network have the &#34;new django auth best practices&#34; primer?<br/><br/>I&#39;m probably going to use django-allauth, but I have reasons to want things like non-sequential ids for users as well and want to know how to support that effectively. 2025-07-17T18:54:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswacdypd5yddzzay3j9qtjz6nfxc8v58tqc49p5x3ec40js8vmj4qzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcg8ag5t Today a woman shared an experience with me of a man at a mixed gender event talked to her around three times, and then after the event came up to her inebriated and asked her out. (I understood this to be &#34;last week&#34; as its a weekly event.)<br/><br/>She was feeling apprehensive about attending today.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve worn &#34;community management&#34; hats long enough that my very first piece of advice is simple:<br/><br/>Tell the organizer.<br/><br/>She thought that was &#34;making too big a deal of the situation.&#34;<br/><br/>So I&#39;m going to be direct with folks here on fedi:<br/><br/>Community management is hard. But the big secret is we&#39;re all human and we can&#39;t be everywhere all the time. <br/><br/>This situation is exactly the kind of situation we need to know is happening.<br/><br/>If someone makes you uncomfortable you need to feel empowered to talk to the organizers.<br/><br/>Don&#39;t get me wrong, I&#39;ve had spurious and racist reports in my time.<br/><br/>But there&#39;s an entire class of community organization problem that you can only solve with lots of moderate reports over time.<br/><br/>So please: Tell your organizer. 2025-07-02T22:10:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvwv7k0qk8qqhnnuyx2krgulx9c9ghlymyy0x9ahztgpzrvvkecmgzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcpz8a3l So money is. . . not good right now.<br/><br/>I technically have a patreon but it is zero rewards and mostly aimed at funding ppb work.<br/><br/>I&#39;d much rather offer my skill set for folks who have more money than time for weird custom work.<br/><br/>Various skill sets:<br/><br/>* python generally<br/>* css editing/fixing<br/>* web design (see piper.thunstrom.dev and teahouse.cafe for previous work)<br/>* javascript/typescript (mostly with react)<br/>* tech writing<br/>* creative non-fiction (A girl can hope)<br/>* general editing of English work<br/>* structural editing of fiction (It&#39;s been a minute)<br/><br/>Email me, my fedi handle at gmail.com for discussion.<br/><br/>PNW US locale. #GetFediHired 2025-06-08T21:30:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrq2q60h0u5s9x6ukzsr3fpn9r2pngfrx4za0y8rceg3elc2yyxtszype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcusqtz9 We were never really &#34;stealth,&#34; but <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub190nxy95nad03cn3aqfjldj72kvw6n3pzny4mzuaczl3nsq8xfqaq9wr8sx" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>AstraLuma</span> (<span class="italic">npub190n…r8sx</span>)</a></span> and I have been working on building a new company:<br/><br/>Announcing our new web hosting solution:<br/><br/><a href="https://teahouse.cafe/news/2025/05/02/announcing-teahouse.html">https://teahouse.cafe/news/2025/05/02/announcing-teahouse.html</a><br/><br/>For this release, you&#39;re the primary audience if you want something like github pages but run by a queer team of indie web enthusiasts.<br/><br/>More features coming for the less technically sophisticated. The goal is letting people get ideas on websites they own and control as fast as possible. 2025-05-02T21:36:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs878fpu5q7dh98g2q6uc0xf4fwflhdxtvkgltyxumuy4kdgk0cx2szype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcydsvw2 Meet Twine, a girl who has trouble stringing two thoughts together, scared of her own fluff, but extremely sweet.<br/><br/>#caturday #CatsOfMastadon<br/> <img src="https://cloudflare-disconnect-nazis.ngmx.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/010/198/149/982/915/original/bfd2812112ad51d8.jpg"> <br/> 2025-02-15T22:16:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqh8kvjn765lgm43mylg2qx6r866hq2vlsr9d9drna5jf57m65ccczype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahc8a4apv Okay, I&#39;m not going to talk in detail, but my company is definitely not going to be healthy for me going forward.<br/><br/>Which means I&#39;m genuinely open to new opportunities.<br/><br/>I&#39;m a USA-based full stack web developer and open source maintainer. Primary language is Python. I can do react, but definitely prefer low-JS front ends. Good at the modern web platform, got a drive to continually improve ergonomics for other developers. If you have a solid lead, please reach out!<br/><br/>#GetFediHired 2024-12-17T17:02:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0vvydt2dpw7294mdat0tg5pxzsms73nux3duu4cc7kcm67425asczype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcc6rckw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs23xem3lyq9u7sjzghsj0ac7m6nmzz3app3tw6e7dcjd8zwhyssdcq5w9j2'>nevent1q…w9j2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As someone who uses windows a significant amount, I would love an easier way to get just on my machine. 2024-12-10T21:44:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsffdpl776u00ht290779e9gye4gd2wv553vegyh676md39jjvkweqzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcvz3fxc It will astound me forever that the accessibility tech community settled on a numeronym, one of the least accessible forms of contraction.<br/><br/>And very few do the work to use it like an abbreviation or acronym. Which is telling. 2024-10-14T23:17:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstuzy83e4jtygrqw2de0y6qu7002ffny4an8hyu894m4u7rus5c0szype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcgkal0k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9nk2l20339rz6nwt02u690e3z678xxt06w0crhhqtum8rypyuh4gke65hd'>nevent1q…65hd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it&#39;s not my daily driver (ideological mostly, I refuse to run a chromium as my daily until Google stops trying to destroy the web), but it&#39;s definitely my favorite of the chromiums so it stays for the few pages that only work in chrome and for chrome web testing. 2024-09-30T16:20:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9y9shvuzqj85wj6kexlsmnhjf2qz2nhrq8egtvr0dws8fc8hsm4qzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahc67ws89 Still looking for work. I&#39;m a staff engineer with copious FOSS experience. I&#39;m primarily Python, but a healthy amount of other web platform including TypeScript and React. I&#39;m also pretty good at DBA stuff and have built or maintained multiple data pipelines stuff (primarily of the &#34;built from scratch&#34; variety, but happy to pick up tools.)<br/><br/>I just extracted the last of my savings. I don&#39;t have insurance, and one of my meds is a full third of my mortgage payment for approximately a month&#39;s supply.<br/><br/>US, PNW based, Remote only, happy to do short term contract to keep us fed and housed.<br/><br/>#GetFediHired 2024-09-09T18:01:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8awf6zwt0xdmfgdhkvskvzsfnj446lrwcgf2k946uhd4vhd8d2pqzype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcxhlcq2 I will remind the world yet again: the Luddites were a labor movement, concerned with workers&#39; safety and lifestyle, they were not anti technology.<br/><br/>They are the literal heroes of that story. 2024-08-02T18:10:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvuc5tf4yaav2gk4cl3k7vljteusgy0waur0h6e0qc8ymcptm5q9czype3sa5v465km2lq5r35xpmdzeajysk6s5d9r490puvqrvj800ahcqpnwsh Just lost my job. If you need a broad skilled Python dev who has a passion for sharing information, strong full stack skills and data pipelines experience? I&#39;m your girl.<br/><br/>(I also do public speaking, and I run an open source project in case that wasn&#39;t enough of a skill set for you.)<br/><br/>EDIT: I&#39;m in the US for folks interested.<br/><br/>#getfedihired 2024-04-15T22:21:55Z