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Hi new followers 👋🏻 (Guessing I've been added to a starter pack?) My name is Benjy, I'm an interaction designer based in Swansea 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I post about user centred design, public service digital, accessibility, inclusive design, gigs, music, coffee, beer and weeknotes. www.benjystanton.co.uk #intro https://www.benjystanton.co.uk/

problem with being an ingredients household is that circa five times a year I actually really don't want to cook and end up having a truly unhinged lunch of, to take today as an example, "muesli, kimchi, a tin of tuna and some raspberries"

it took me a solid five years in my early twenties to realize that when someone asks me to grab coffee with them, I should not answer "no thanks, I don't like coffee" 🫠 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

There are a few yeah, happy to help make one

I have a few listed here https://www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/list-of-inclusive-design-books/

Wrote my first custom eslint rule today. Surprised how easy it was! Literally 20 minutes and I had it doing what I wanted. 10 more and I'd written tests as well

AST Explorer is absolutely invaluable for this kind of thing astexplorer.net https://astexplorer.net/

https://bsky.app/profile/patak.dev/post/3laqz5xdxec2d [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Super helpful, especially hovering code/ast and it highlighting the corresponding section on the other side. I found a number of tests where there wasn't chained an assertion onto a mock. So they'd never fail no matter what. The eslint rule shouts at you if you forget the assertions :)

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Yeah! My first port of call was to email everyone, give them a heads up about that pitfall. But then I thought why not automate it so people don't have to remember. Writing the rule was a fun end to the week :)

Thanks to everyone at @perfnow.bsky.social for making us feel welcome and putting on a good conference. Really enjoyed meeting you all! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

On dirait une piste Ableton

I’ve got the stream deck and same. I only have it programmed for rearranging windows right now.

I genuinely like my LinkedIn feed, using it as a milquetoast palate cleanser. I go there ~once a month when I need a tiny bit of safe novelty. Mind you, it baffles me how it holds anyone's attention for long when it is so devoid of shitposts

i’m now obsessed [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Ok this is pretty cool actually https://newatlas.com/robotics/learning-robotic-third-thumb/

I know 🥹 💜

don’t fall off

Earlier this week, I explained to one of my mentees how in the earlier days of the web, all the blogs had RSS feeds and configuring a feed reader was super easy. She seemed shocked at the idea of a continual cadence of good engineering articles, and it struck me how much we’ve lost. 😢

I think one of the things that made RSS beautiful is that the format was simple enough that a curious undergrad CS student could easily build their own tooling for it: there’s a good reason that “blog with an RSS feed” was the default tutorial project for many years!

I'm seriously tempted to build an ATProto app view where we all get 3 ❤️'s to give everyday to 3 of our lucky friends. https://media.tenor.com/w6Ow10J0atMAAAAC/how-do-you-do-fellow-kids-steve-buscemi.gif?hh=498&ww=498

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline [contains quote post or other embedded content]

I still remember walking to the corner mart in the small village I grew up in (it sold groceries, books, and rented VHS/Video Games) and seeing the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past golden box and being absolutely in awe of it - it was always on the top shelf lol

I've been leaning more heavily into sharing my science communication work with actual scientists. It's scary since I'm not in the sciences but I LOVE them. So far it's paid off. And by paid off I mean no one has yelled at me or told me I'm a bad person for trying to make science more accessible.

It’s so weird too. I remember when I got backlash for expressing interest in security when I was a frontend dev and ppl said I didn’t know what I wanted to do lol. But I knew when I before I learned how to code that my ultimate goal was infosec. Hence why I followed so many ppl in that space too [contains quote post or other embedded content]

That’s why I fw ppl like @medus4.com & @lookitup.baby. So many ppl like them always made the community seem so inviting for everyone just by being themselves. That’s why I’ll always be around to help others too

lots of new users have not seen the newborn lamb [contains quote post or other embedded content]

He taught me how to make a good tomato sauce in 1992, before I went to university, explaining a spoonful of sugar (if you couldn't afford balsamic) would offset the acidity, and I think of him whenever I make a tomato sauce, which is often, and what a lovely thing that is