fen @sublimemarch@cybre.space

An #introduction!

Hi, I'm Fen! I'm a #nonbinary web dev and #accessibility nerd who's into making zines and RPGs. I just moved here from mastodon.social.

Code and talks: fenslattery.com

Zines and games: sublimemarch.itch.io

I post about:
trans and queer issues
💻 programming (mostly HTML and CSS)
👩🏾‍💻 radical inclusion in the tech industry
♿ digital accessibility and invisible illness
🧠 mental illness
indie tabletops and LARPs
weird internet junk

.dev domain name registration just opened up, and fen.dev would be $11,097.90 USD right now. Haha nope.

if you're gonna use Axe Core to check your site's #accessibility, you absolutely can't ignore the "needs review" tab and just assume that there aren't any more errors. fellow developers i love you, but you're killing me.

based on our expected attendees, the breakdown of pronoun options will be:

- 20% he/him
- 40% she/her
- 10% they/them
- 5% ze/hir
- 5% ve/vir
- 5% xe/xir
- 15% __/__

some pronoun button designs i'm working on for an LGBTQ+ in tech meetup i help run.

each will have a variety of colors and a bunch of pronouns.

#larp costume from last weekend of Shaitaniel, the Angel of Sin

#mastoart

Just had the exciting realization that I'm not more of a morning person than my coworkers, I'm just more awake when I get into the office because my commute is way longer. 🙃

things that are helping me get out of this two week long depressive episode:

- playing a shit ton of breath of the wild
- setting a small to do list for the day and finishing it by the afternoon
- eating breakfast
- recognizing what i've accomplished without judging myself for what i haven't done
- wearing optimally comfy clothes that still make me feel like i look cool
- drinking crap tons of Sparkling Ice

i've seen alita twice already since it came out, and can confirm that it has excellent rewatch value.

i'm heckin excited to get started on my conference talk about gender on forms. GET READY because i will absolutely be sharing these slides, and i've found some truly bad examples of how to ask users about this junk.

like, my body feeling _good_ after eating food instead of awful is just ?????????

i don't often have the experience of eating something and then having the glowing happy feeling afterwards of "shit, my body feels _good_ because i ate that", but i just did with breakfast.

_and_ it was with a food item that was previously in the "slightly uncomfortable" category. i'm making progress wooooooo

BUT I did successfully buy her flowers and a heart with chocolates so she can feel super affirmed and loved

I have never felt more visible or gay in my life than I did just now trying to find a card for my wife at the store next to straight dudes.

I ended up not buying any cuz literally all the ones aimed at "wife" either mention the giver being a man or something like "one and only"

a tale of two transes: my wife has never had anyone buy her flowers, and i've never bought anyone flowers. so obv i'm going to buy her some for valentine's day. and i learned from her yesterday that it's apparently almost impossible to actually find flowers on valentine's day???? so this'll be fun. 🙃

after over 1.5 years of working at a #wordpress shop (as a front end dev), i'm learning the back end side of wordpress as part of redoing my personal site.

when i built this iteration of my site two years ago, i for some reason thought that jekyll would be easier than wordpress. minimal markdown based static site generator > big CMS right?

wordpress is _way easier_ than jekyll and i'm almost ashamed (but not really) that i thought jekyll would be better for so long.

this font based on US national park carved signs is so charming: https://nationalparktypeface.com/