#introduction
Hello Chitter. I've migrated here from @batbeeps@awoo.space. See there for previous postings.
Name: beeps.
Age: β₯ 30.
Location: π¬π§ gay britaaaaain.
Gender: none β trans, agender, it/its pronouns.
Sex: none β asexual.
Biology: none β ex-human robot/synthetic otherkin.
Robot bat on the internet.
Frontend developer/civil servant at the Government Digital Service.
Also #PluralGang. My headmate has their own account: @olive.
Have a fresh as hell day, friends.
politics, disclaimer
I work in a politically-restricted role in the UK Government.
This means that I must maintain political impartiality. This includes:
β not expressing or publishing party political views in public spaces or forums;
β not having membership of any political party;
β not running for public office;
β not publicly campaigning for, endorsing or denouncing any politicians.
As such, my page is largely a politics-free zone, but not because politics isn't important!
My Year of Writing & Reconnection: The first of hopefully monthly updates.
https://beeps.website/blog/2023-02-01-writing-and-reconnection-january/
hate being in a situation where i mostly agree with the people who say software got very bloated, but also have to remind them that a lot of things have changed that do require today's level of complexity
like unicode being normalized, and now every OS has to know how to render all sorts of scripts of different complexity
or that desktop displays other than 96 dpi are a thing (which is part of the reason why all user interfaces now use flat icons and such)
or security (a web browser from the 90s would be unable to do HTTPS, and would not isolate 3rd-party cookies and such that weren't a problem back then, but would be a big issue now)
also, it sucks that so many "cross-platform" apps are now just web apps running in electron, but that's better than having them be native apps that only run on windows (or sometimes also macOS)
and i'd say today's HTML5/JS-based web apps are still an improvement over what we had before, which, i should remind you all, was shockwave/macromedia/adobe flash (and it was an even less pleasant experience on linux)
Huge congratulations to the GOV.UK Design System team with their v4.5.0 release of GOV.UK Frontend.
Highlights include:
* Sourcemaps
* Accordions enhancement using the `hidden='until-found'` attribute
* plus lots more! https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/releases/tag/v4.5.0
trans, pol
A thing I'm realizing as one of those elder-trans people:
No amount of stealthing or self-minimizing will appease genocidal bigots.
None.
You can be a 110% productive, capitalism saluting, sexless being dressed like a damn puritan and they. will. still. hate. you.
Your silence will not protect you.
Your absence is letting them shift the Overton window in their favor.
This is one thing younger gen trans people have right:
Don't settle for appeasement. Live. "Shine so bright it burns their fucking eyes".
Well that's interesting. Mastodon's API seemingly rejected a @batsbatsbats update because the image was too large dimensionally.
Not in file size, in dimensions.
Not a restriction I can see mentioned in docs anywhere either
30+ trans, agender, panromantic, asexual, furry, plural, synthetic otherkin. Robot bat on the internet. Frontend developer at the Government Digital Service.
More β https://beeps.website/about
π I smooch tha puppo: @taylor.
π Shares headspace with @olive.
Avatar: Art by @coelacanthus.
Banner: "LDN 43: The Cosmic Bat Nebula" photographed by Mark Hanson and Mike Selby.