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Sophie builds fun things out of HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and writes blog posts about tech and mental health.
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Stop generating, start thinking
Throughout my career, I feel like I’ve done a pretty decent job of staying top of new developments in the industry: attending conferences, following (and later befriending!) some of the very smart people writing the specs, being the one sharing news on Slack about exciting new features of CSS or JS with my colleagues. The joys of working on an internal tool where you only need to worry about latest Chrome, and playing with anchor positioning in a production app while it’s still experimental! It’...
2025: The year in lists
Skip to bits you care about: The year in... ...furry friends ...retreating into my cave ...conferences ...gardening ...books ...music ...video games ...blog posts The year in... ...furry friends We got a dog! She's both the most wonderful and most annoying thing I've ever encountered. It's hard work and she needs a lot of training, but she's come a long way in the time we've had her. 2026 will bring more training sessions, and hopefully more success. As I write this she's befriended the peo...
This website is for humans
Walking past a bus stop yesterday I saw an advert for Google’s AI search. The person in the ad had pointed their phone’s camera at a bowl of ramen, and the AI result explained how to reproduce it at home. How does it know? Because it’s trained on all the ramen recipes that multiple recipe authors spent hours, weeks, years perfecting. Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without any of the credibi...
Touching grass (and shrubs, and flowers, and dog)
I meant to post this in May, but then I went back to work after my final (sob) sabbatical, and I also lost a lot of time to Blue Prince at some point, so here we are in July. I thought I'd update with some medium-sized news in the form of a medium-sized dog: Her name is Penny. She's a staffy mix (and a rescue, so the rest is a mystery) and she's the cuddliest dog you've ever met. We've been working hard on lead training, as she is a terrible goblin on the lead and wants to chase anything small...
This page is under construction
This is an updated & abridged version of the talk I gave at several conferences throughout 2022/23, including Beyond Tellerrand, CSS Day and FFConf. If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website. A little home on the independent web. A reflection of your personality in HTML and CSS (and a little bit of JS, as a treat). This could be a professional portfolio, listing your accomplishments. It might be a blog where you write about things...
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