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Katie Bell

@notsolonecoder.bsky.social

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Software engineer, sci-fi nerd, cat video addict, and recent crochet convert. (She/her)

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Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · Jun 22

My niece is into dragons, particularly the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. So... what do you reckon? Will she like it?

Pattern by Imagined Yarn.
#crochet #Toothless

Side view of a black crochet dragon with green eyes, modelled after Toothless from the How to Train Your Dragon movies. It has open wings held up by wire and stares straight ahead with a determined expression.

Side view of an all-black crochet dragon with green eyes, modelled after Toothless from the How to Train Your Dragon movies. It has open wings held up by wire. The left tail tail fin can be seen which is Toothless's prosthetic fin, it is red with a white skull design.

Front view of an all-black crochet dragon, modelled after Toothless from the How to Train Your Dragon movies. Its green eyes stare into the camera.

Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · May 3

Oh my!

Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · May 3

I am also told that Masterfoods donated the sauce so it's actually helping the school and not just a marketing gimmick!

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Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · May 3

Ooops forgot alt-text. It's a close-up of a large masterfoods tomato sauce bottle but the label says "Democracy sauce".

Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · May 3

Local public school democracy sausage now comes with... democracy sauce!

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Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · Apr 27

Meet my new deskmates! Finally finished the last details on the backpack korok.

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Maks 🇦🇺🇺🇦 @mksl.bsky.social · Jan 20

@notsolonecoder.bsky.social just did a fantastic talk about using web assembly server side at @everythingopen.au 25, so I tried to get some practise in again for my #sketchnoting

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Karla Pacheco! @thekarlapacheco.bsky.social · Jan 4

"Okay ladies, so this is why we don't mix fonts on the covers..."

Romance novel where it looks like "The ASS He Left Behind" instead of Lass, because they mixed fonts like a little silly billy

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Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · Dec 24

Oh that is definitely beginning to happen!

Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · Dec 24

It's been sooo satisfying learning to crochet this year! As a software dev I don't usually create actual physical things, especially not ones that are cute!

Finished these just in time for Christmas. 😁
(Pattern by AradiyaToys)

Crochet Santa doll with a red hat with fluffy white trim and pompom, big white beard and bushy grey eyebrows. The head is about 3 times the size of the body, making it very cute.

Crochet Christmas elf doll with green hat, green tunic with red collar and a big yellow buckle on his belt. His big head and slightly worried expression looks extra cute, and there's a little tuft of brown hair poking out from under the hat.

Crochet Mrs. Claus doll, she's wearing a red dress with white fluffy trim and her grey hair is in a bun with a red band and a poinsettia flower on it. Her oversized head has smiling embroidered eyes and pink cheeks, making this one the absolute cutest of the three.

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Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · Dec 21

Fair enough, these things are difficult! I'll figure something out. :)

Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · Dec 21

On that note - I have no expectation of it arriving before Christmas or even the new year, so it can also wait until after the Christmas rush.

Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · Dec 21

Ah, that'd be it! Just gotta find a way to ship it here. (I am happy to pay exorbitant international shipping costs if you are willing to provide that - even if it exceeds the cost of the calendar itself).

Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · Dec 21

hmm.... I'm in Australia - is it only available to people in the US? Looks like when I load the page through a proxy I can see the calendar.

Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · Dec 20

A bit of searching found me this link: brandonbird.myshopify.com/products/tak... but I just get a 404 error when I visit it. 😢

“Takes on Frakes” 12-inch 2025 wall calendar

After many years of making Frakes calendars using Beyond Belief screengrabs, I finally ran out of usable screengrabs... so I assembled a crack team of brilliant artists to make brand-new pieces inspir...

brandonbird.myshopify.com

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Everything Open @handle.invalid · Dec 19

Everything Open 2025 program is now published.

Presentation “Sandboxing untrusted code with WebAssembly” by Katie Bell

Program: 2025.everythingopen.au/schedule/
Tickets: 2025.everythingopen.au/attend/ticke...

#EO2025 #EverythingOpen #conference #openSource

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Katie Bell @notsolonecoder.bsky.social · Dec 15

Oh I love this concept! My nieces are getting into the hard-to-shop-for teenage years so I need a way to make giving them cash a bit more fun! 😅