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Sofia Simanke

@smnk.me

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UX/UI designer from Brazil. Experience working in digital transformation projects in the public sector. she/her • 🏳️‍🌈

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Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 17

LET’S POP SOME BOTTLES 🍾

James Stuckey Weber @jamessw.com · Jun 17

CSS anchor positioning is going to be in all major browsers by the end of the year! 🎉 Sign up for OddBird's free weekly email course to learn how it's going to make layouts more performant and resilient, and unlock new design possibilities. #css #webdev

Create Performant Layouts and Resilient Dropdowns

This CSS anchor positioning course teaches you how

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 6

ooooooooooo

Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · Jun 6

If you're a dev, you know about the input element and all of it's types, but do you know about the output element?

html-css-tip-of-the-week.netlify.app/tip/output/

The <output> element

Display calculation results and user interaction outcomes with semantic HTML using the output element.

html-css-tip-of-the-week.netlify.app

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Design Systems News @designsysnews.bsky.social · Jun 6

✨ Design Systems News

220+ Illustrations for Your Design Systems

SassUI offers a collection of free illustrations tailored for design systems and documentation. High-quality, customisable visuals designed to enhance your projects

illustrations.saas-ui.dev

#DesignSystems

A graphic titled "Design Systems News" features a quote about "SASSUI: Illustrations for Your Design Systems and Docs": "a collection of free, high-quality illustrations designed specifically for documentation and design systems." The design includes a grey background with an orange accent and a footer displaying "news.design.systems."

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · Jun 6

The Guardian have changed the headline for the *third time* today.

Screenshot of a headline on The Guardian website that reads:

“ Transgender
EHRC commissioner calls for
'period of correction' after legal ruling
Akua Reindorf said law never permitted self-ID, but trans campaigners call remarks 'profoundly unhelpful'”

Pictured are a group of trans people in a pride march, covered in flags and signs that say “trans rights now”

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · Jun 6

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

NBC News

Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident.

Gastonia, N.C., police charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter charges after allowing the victim and his brother to walk home alone from a nearby grocery store.

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Mia (online) @miriam.codes · Jun 6

Major announcement, I've "trained" a "Lot of Language Model" in #CSS, so you no longer have to use confusing color syntax. Just describe* the color you want in plain language!** Invisible, conversational interface!***

codepen.io/miriamsuzann...

--miaGPT generative colors in CSS

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 6

i just wish i could use left and right to cycle through files in a folder inside the Preview app :(

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 6

seeing this is just reminding me of how much i love Ed Mort

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · Mar 4

I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin dressed as a noir detective, saying "Yeah. That's me, Tracer Bullet. I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon. The drink packs a wallop, and I pack a revolver. I'm a private eye."

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 6

i have never been more excited for something in my life

Dennis Frank @freshmango.bsky.social · Jun 6

Styling form controls will be SO MUCH easier in the (hopefully not so far) future. @ntim.bsky.social demonstrates examples from the CSS Form Control Styling Level 1 specification draft (www.w3.org/TR/css-forms...) #cssday

Tim presents how to style checkboxes

Tim demonstrates how to date/time inputs

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 4

but as soon as a tried to do something a little bit more “advanced” for me (i think i tried to package an AppImage for an app that wasn’t on nixpkgs? to install it with home-manager?) i was like…. i have no idea how this works dhdjdjf

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 4

i picked up nixOS as my first attempt at using linux, both bc i was just curious, and bc the rollbacks made me less nervous about breaking everything. i do prefer writing a config file instead of doing random commands whose effects i don’t fully understand and that i’ll forget 5 minutes later

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 4

one day i’m going to fully blur the lines between “fun account” and “serious account” and start posting about nogizaka on here. i know myself.

should just follow @ca.rter.io’s example and have no fear of going full wota under my full legal name.

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 4

the defense contractor shebacle bummed me out when i heard about it

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 4

i’ve been trying to learn more about nix despite being a Fake Coder (aka loves reading & learning about programming but doesn’t do it in practice so has very limited understanding)

nix community seems like it has so many cool ppl but also some bummer weird stuff high up??

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 4

my very small dog is very upset about not being fed today. he does not understand the concept of fasting before a medical exam.

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 4

they could always steal it and have high chances of getting away with it anyway, but laundering the practice like this so people don’t even see it as something sneaky you have to “get away with” gives me the ick…

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 4

the fact that there’s open source code with explicitly copyleft licenses being used to train AI coding tools used to write proprietary code for huge corporations hurts my heart some place deep 🫠

HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · Jun 4

I am an AI/LLM skeptic who also believes "information wants to be free". So while I find the IP angle often deployed others on my side of the debate a bit frustrating, AI boosters taking claim of the information freedom mantle is *at least* as incoherent. You really think these companies are anti IP

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 4

and isn’t there a huge difference between pirating something for your personal use vs profiting off of someone’s IP by repackaging it and selling it to others? even if you think both or bad or both are ok, it feels weird to conflate them as the same thing

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Ripperoni @ripperoni.com · Jun 4

Objectively false

mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...

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Haskell programming language @haskell.org · Jun 3

In this Pride Month, let us remember that #FunctionalProgramming has the privilege and honour to share our beloved λ with the Lesbian community. Let's go Lesbians!

A lower-case greek lambda in the colours of the lesbian pride flag

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 3

yikes…. extremely disappointed to see this on flyio

Andy Bell @bell.bz · Jun 3

You know it’s a grift because the hard sell isn’t working, so going after people on a personal level is the next move fly.io/blog/youre-a...

If AI/LLMs were actually good, this sort of article would never show up.

The URL of this “article” is a good tell, too.

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 3

oh my god. idk if it's AI generated or what but their new mascot thingie is terrifying.

Extremely uncanny valley image of a skinny brown skinned woman with short curly hair, wearing a bright yellow suit, staring straight through your soul with wide open eyes, her mouth in a tight and strained looking smile showing off a row of perfectly straight teeth. Not sure whether her face is showing murderous intent or screaming "put me out of my misery".

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 3

someone should let the brazilian mail service know that create-react-app has been deprecated

Search engine result:

meucorreios.correios.com.br
Meu Correios: Web site created using create-react-app.

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 2

i don’t even have a mac mini… but i’m obsessed with this…

Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · Jun 2

Hello, yes please.

prelaunch.com/projects/wok...

Sofia Simanke @smnk.me · Jun 2

isn’t it the curse of going public? having huge stable profit isn’t enough, need infinite growth to keep investors happy. grow as much as you can in the one thing you do, you have no choice but to “branch out”…