Sara Joy 
(49)
From years of being bored, unsatisfied, or struggling in various jobs and industries, I finally feel like I have come home.
I'm so happy to join an industry with such brilliant, interesting, and gloriously nerdy people - I mean this in the best possible way!
I have attended both Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf and CSS Day 2024 and, wow. Huge thank yous to the organisers, speakers, and to the many warm and funny fellow attendees I had the joy to socialise with.
This is my church.
Just ordered far too many little stickers of my happy pepper () that @andycarolan designed for me, based on my very silly bell pepper thread (https://front-end.social/@sarajw/109994451332222396)
If you're going to @btconf in Düsseldorf or #CSSDay in Amsterdam then you can totally have one, or several!
Here's a preview, they'll be about 3x3 cm:
To the people with #CSSDay FOMO - you're not missing out.
It's terrible, the people suck, the conversations are boring, the talks are rubbish.
CSS is lame, the web platform needs fixing with layers upon layers of JS, I miss Flash, bring back Dreamweaver, websites should be images with clickable regions.
You're fine. Enjoy whatever it is you're doing instead, we're having an awful time.
In case anyone is wondering whether @anarodrigues and I found each other - yes we did :) and we found a @Kilian too amongst many other lovely people! #CSSDay
Re @stubbornella and special language within companies (her example was 🐑 for "ship/sheep it"):
People in my company in Germany react with a 🇬🇧 on any announcement of someone being off sick.
The code for this in slack is :flag-gb:
German for "get well soon" is "Gute Besserung". GB. Great Britain.
Dude. Feel like I'm back in my old engineering maths lectures 😵💫
(I say this with love, @matthiasott. Indeed CSS *is* a programming language)
Re alt text - will add more code specifics later, sorry! Thank goodness for editing, thanks Mastodon 🦣
My world is complete. @kevinpowell started his talk with "Hello my front end friends!"
I am going to use "dorkmode" to mean going into joyous coding flow from now on.