After coming out as poly, I realized that it was the people who loved me the most who were the most resistant to learning about who I really was. Unfortunately, it wasn’t until about 6 months ago that I began to realize all the ways I was doing it to the people I loved the most. ^ My biggest personal journey right now is about learning to let go of my expectations and to give the people most important to me the gift of my love in the form of unconditional love, support, and acceptance.

Brogrammer: “I can’t be bothered to change the words I use to discuss my profession just because it makes a few people feel included”

Same bro: “I have renamed this same function four times now so it properly conveys its purpose.” Words matter. Nuance matters. Naming is hard. But ultimately:

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y'all. I made the coolest typescript function tonight. So, I've been working on this Maybe implementation for typescript.

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Still processing that today I reassured my daughter with the words “we’ll either die together or survive together.” Current mood: Double Bulleit

There's an *awful lot* of JavaScript that exists solely because the developer didn't know CSS well enough. ^ That JS is slower, more fragile, and more expensive to maintain than the equivalent CSS.