JP @pixelpaperyarn@hackers.town

I’m unabashedly proud of something I’ve made. “Take On Me” is the best thing I’ve ever written.

It’s a story about love, grief, food, music, and the people who accept you exactly as you are.

And now it’s not just mine anymore, it’s yours, too.

https://takeonme.xyz/

tl;dr - i'm a #queer, #pagan, #autistic programmer from my beloved NJ. i write #fiction & #essays, play #videogames & #read. i like #tea, #comicbooks, #oldtech & #music. i'm older than most of you.

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i run http://lunastationquarterly.com, a speculative lit mag for women-identified authors.

i run https://selfcare.tech & its bots for those that need self care resources.

i do a LOT of other things (check the pins and links on my profile).

my alt is https://icosahedron.website/@pixelpaperyarn which i use for various writing talk and announcements.

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i show my learning process, hopefully demystifying how the tech industry works. i chat about the ideas i have that i don't have time to manifest.

i'm a neutral good paladin and i am friends with chaos. systems have their uses, but my moral code will always take precedence.

i believe in kindness and do my best to help when i can.

#introductions #reintroductions

i do a LOT of things, many of which are meant to be helpful to other developers and some just because i love doing them.

i've designed 2 different card decks, have a newsletter i send out monthly, and keep various trello boards full of curricula i design for myself.

details on all this stuff (and honestly much more!) are here:

http://pixelpaperyarn.rocks/projects/

and you can support all that work (and get a few rewards) here:
https://www.patreon.com/jenniferparsons

took a sick day. rested a bit. wrote a bit. got some of that perspective i mentioned needing.

burnout is gonna be with me for a while, but seeing it and working on better balance help the healing.

realizing my mana (spoons, executive function, whatever you want to call it) is running low lately. that’s why i’m pondering ways to reduce friction in my life and daydreaming about external services to take the load. what i really need is space and rest and perspective.

“Stop acting small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” - Rumi

honestly surprised i haven’t seen a service that will let you make a single monthly payment and it will pay all your subscription services for you.

an ad hoc way of doing it would probably be to have a separate bank account for subscription payments and have a monthly transfer for them.

still daydreaming about that single page crossposting tool.

i can totally imagine a desktop app that is a bunch of form fields, customized by what day it is, and you fill them all out, use date and time pickers to schedule stuff with one big submit button at the end.

going to start trying out https://fraidyc.at/

i really like the idea of it and curious to see what i can surface in using it. do certain folks start bubbling to the top of my radar? do i read more blog posts this way? who knows!

https://codepen.io/collection/nMgKxJ - Useful Pens for Everyday Front End Development

https://kottke.org/20/01/paris-museums-put-100000-images-online-for-unrestricted-public-use - Paris museums have released 100k images for unrestricted use. oh, to have the time to sift through this and make some art.