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Jess Rose

@jesslynnrose.bsky.social

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A little intense about computers and languages. She's sorry, but not as sorry as she should be.

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 2d

passkeys are a dead end unless they are adequately explained to users, which so far they emphatically have not been

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna get kicked out of all my groupchats for spamming a constant play by play of how cute and sweet and kind my honey is.

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 1d

I just need to keep going back and taking all their short courses, forever…

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 1d

Oh gosh, it is and that makes it even better. Oh no/thank you!

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WDC @webdevconf.com · 4d

It's great to see everyone on their way to Bristol for WDC2025 tomorrow!

There is still time to grab a ticket if you want to be there!

webdevconf.com

WDC2025 - October 10 2025, Watershed, Bristol, UK

WDC is the web conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year. With great speakers and attendees alike.

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 4d

I reject the very concept of fluency as a goal and am thus safely insulated from your disappointment

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 4d

If I try to do more than one language in the 0-A2 range at the same time it will destroy me.

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 4d

I don't actually know any Welsh [yet, yet] and the course is focused on policy and modern language history!

Note: please do not encourage me to learn Welsh, there's incredibly affordable high quality courses available and I have terrible self control.

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 4d

Me a normal person, with normal people problems: Oh, I've double booked my History of the Welsh Language short course over my Indonesian lesson timeslot.

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 4d

:( I just tried it out again after they ruined Komoot 🫠🫠🫠

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 4d

I am interested in everything all the time! We should take a cute woodblock class!

…and this FBI history thing…

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 5d

Trying to talk myself out of this this online short course on the history of the FBI 1908-1976 but if you are also into impossibly specific short courses here's a referral link so we both get discounts

www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-...

Get £20 off at City Lit

I recently enrolled on a course at City Lit and they gave me a special offer to share with my friends. I’m treating you to an exclusive £20 off your first course that is £99 or more. I’ll also get a r...

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Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 5d

...why has AllTrails added AI slop summaries of trails with the warning that these might be nonsense?

I feel like the "needs this to safely navigate" market segment would hate this a lot?

A screenshot of text shown below an AI summary box reading: This summary is AI-generated from trail reviews and won’t always be perfect.

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 6d

Blocked off time in my calendar to exercise, to try and build good habits and lower stress.

Turns out that a 6:30am push notification that just says "RUN" is not relaxing or helpful.

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 6d

Back on one of my fav recurring logistics problems: how to buy Indonesian language books to have them shipped to me in the UK.

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 10d

Back and forth, I'll bet! We should hang out!

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 10d

oh, I was gonna sign up for that spoon carving workshop...

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 10d

I have 6 terrible bigfoot movies in my queue for this time off!

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 10d

Literally writing some python so I can pull out vocabulary lists out of a PDF in order of appearance to make flashcards to be able to read an Indonesian horror novel about Pocong that's too hard for my current level

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 10d

Have several weeks off of work.

Please guess what normal and chill things I'm doing with my time.

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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 10d

Developers! If you want to distribute software "applications" that don't depend on the whims of multi-billion dollar organisations romantically linked to illiberal regimes across the globe, there's a brand new vague-but-exciting technology you can use, called "the Web"! pwa.dev

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Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 12d

Good morning, internet friends! Today to Friday I'm attending the (very free) @opensource.org online conference on data governance!

I'll even be speaking at it later this week about my (sort of) secret new project 🕵️

opensource.org/events/deep-...

Deep Dive: Data Governance

October 1, 2025 - October 3, 2025 @ All Day - Deep Dive: Data Governance, a premier virtual gathering of leading AI & Data practitioners, is a 3-day Virtual Event on Data Governance, and Open Source A...

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 12d

Honestly, it just sounds like I need to come back to Indonesia for a visit to watch horror movies and finally get to eat nice spicy food again.

I'll try and hunt these down, I massively appreciate you taking the time to share them! I hope your whole week is spooky and chill

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 12d

Tenebre is SO GOOD, thank you so much for taking the time to share these, I'm going to add some of these into my queue right away!!

Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 12d

They made so many Rec films and they're all so great, @alvaromontoro.com pointed out they did a Spanish language one!!