Sara Joy 
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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:
Big oooohhhhhhhhhh moment, "what can my font do?" - https://wakamaifondue.com
I needed someone to say it out loud apparently 😆🤦
I agree with this quote. Forgive. Yes.
But especially if our job *is* to keep up and understand, we still need to strive for it, even if we're forgiven for falling behind.
None of the excellent new heavy-JS-replacing CSS would be used if we didn't do so. Hence this conference. Hence all this discourse online. Hence all the articles and posts and advocating and devrels and working groups. Hence the arguments and controversy.
We want to improve life for everyone online. It's important.
Another note, an element with display:none; is still available to aria-labelledby. TIL.
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 🦣
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.
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.
CSS
is
a style sheet language
that allows the **intent** of the **designer** to be communicated to a **browser** that **executes** on it
Not only @fantasai's talk today is reinforcing for me that "web design" is not dead.
We are not unicorns. Front end developers, once web designers, can and do *design*. We can! We do! We design with code, or in code. It's not unusual. Why the silos?
