Anna E. Cook
@annaecook.com
Cheers to you friend! 🥂
December 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Cheers to you friend! 🥂
A personal reflection on focus, autism, and accessibility, what focus has given me in clarity and self-acceptance, and why I’m choosing to keep building better systems, even when clarity is hard to hold, as we head into 2026.
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Focus (2025) — Anna E. Cook
A personal reflection on focus, autism, and accessibility, what focus has given me in clarity and self-acceptance, and why I’m choosing to keep building better systems, even when clarity is hard to ho...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A personal reflection on focus, autism, and accessibility, what focus has given me in clarity and self-acceptance, and why I’m choosing to keep building better systems, even when clarity is hard to hold, as we head into 2026.
annaecook.com/writing/2025...
annaecook.com/writing/2025...
Respectfully, using X now is a security risk. That alone means it is not viable, adding “it’s full of nazis” does not help.
No one wants more people more radicalized but we also have to protect ourselves.
No one wants more people more radicalized but we also have to protect ourselves.
December 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Respectfully, using X now is a security risk. That alone means it is not viable, adding “it’s full of nazis” does not help.
No one wants more people more radicalized but we also have to protect ourselves.
No one wants more people more radicalized but we also have to protect ourselves.
Reposted by Anna E. Cook
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
Like the entire digital world doesn't have to be about sucking every piece of attention, every cent, every ounce of will from customers and users.
We still can offer good experiences, fun experiences, accessible experiences all in one.
That's not a wild concept! I believe in it.
We still can offer good experiences, fun experiences, accessible experiences all in one.
That's not a wild concept! I believe in it.
December 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Like the entire digital world doesn't have to be about sucking every piece of attention, every cent, every ounce of will from customers and users.
We still can offer good experiences, fun experiences, accessible experiences all in one.
That's not a wild concept! I believe in it.
We still can offer good experiences, fun experiences, accessible experiences all in one.
That's not a wild concept! I believe in it.
I'm actually excited writing CSS on a Saturday again, like I used to be.
It feels odd, how I've spent so long doing this and some of the excitement faded given the state of tech work.
But here I am remembering that the web still has the power to be fun and exciting, oddly enough.
It feels odd, how I've spent so long doing this and some of the excitement faded given the state of tech work.
But here I am remembering that the web still has the power to be fun and exciting, oddly enough.
December 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I'm actually excited writing CSS on a Saturday again, like I used to be.
It feels odd, how I've spent so long doing this and some of the excitement faded given the state of tech work.
But here I am remembering that the web still has the power to be fun and exciting, oddly enough.
It feels odd, how I've spent so long doing this and some of the excitement faded given the state of tech work.
But here I am remembering that the web still has the power to be fun and exciting, oddly enough.
In this case we were just looking at Amazon, for the sake of showing each other what happens
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
In this case we were just looking at Amazon, for the sake of showing each other what happens
Just sitting around with friends comparing the variable prices we receive for the same product in the same apps because we live in the land of nightmares
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Just sitting around with friends comparing the variable prices we receive for the same product in the same apps because we live in the land of nightmares
God I can’t stop laughing imagining a toy being like “you must not insult our supreme leader”
December 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
God I can’t stop laughing imagining a toy being like “you must not insult our supreme leader”
Reposted by Anna E. Cook
Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.
You all asked people to draw what Natalie was describing in her "yassified mop" character description, and while I did not draw this I did photoshop it for your consideration tyty.
December 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
You all asked people to draw what Natalie was describing in her "yassified mop" character description, and while I did not draw this I did photoshop it for your consideration tyty.
I know saying "this made me laugh out loud" is very 2012, but this made me laugh out loud.
December 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I know saying "this made me laugh out loud" is very 2012, but this made me laugh out loud.
Before you get mad at me, remember, I too, am mad
December 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Before you get mad at me, remember, I too, am mad
I'm annoyed because I realized that people are using AI to edit and write code, and that might actually motivate them to stop using divs and/or providing actually distinct classes and IDs, finally.
Because an LLM has no idea wtf div you're referring to if you have 50 divs with no logical structure
Because an LLM has no idea wtf div you're referring to if you have 50 divs with no logical structure
December 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I'm annoyed because I realized that people are using AI to edit and write code, and that might actually motivate them to stop using divs and/or providing actually distinct classes and IDs, finally.
Because an LLM has no idea wtf div you're referring to if you have 50 divs with no logical structure
Because an LLM has no idea wtf div you're referring to if you have 50 divs with no logical structure
I really am 🖤
I try not to gush on the internet about it too much but I feel really lucky
I try not to gush on the internet about it too much but I feel really lucky
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I really am 🖤
I try not to gush on the internet about it too much but I feel really lucky
I try not to gush on the internet about it too much but I feel really lucky
Every year Time picks the worst possible “person of the year.”
Let’s ignore them, and ask ourselves, who is our person of the year?
For me, I think it’s my partner, who is very sweet and also insists on making me a latte every day.
What about you?
Let’s ignore them, and ask ourselves, who is our person of the year?
For me, I think it’s my partner, who is very sweet and also insists on making me a latte every day.
What about you?
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Every year Time picks the worst possible “person of the year.”
Let’s ignore them, and ask ourselves, who is our person of the year?
For me, I think it’s my partner, who is very sweet and also insists on making me a latte every day.
What about you?
Let’s ignore them, and ask ourselves, who is our person of the year?
For me, I think it’s my partner, who is very sweet and also insists on making me a latte every day.
What about you?
And I guess that’s kind of the issue of the whole thing.
We focus a lot on the alive person getting comfort from that use of AI but not the dead person and what their existence really was.
It feels insulting to think that even in death my existence is “replaceable” with AI.
We focus a lot on the alive person getting comfort from that use of AI but not the dead person and what their existence really was.
It feels insulting to think that even in death my existence is “replaceable” with AI.
December 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
And I guess that’s kind of the issue of the whole thing.
We focus a lot on the alive person getting comfort from that use of AI but not the dead person and what their existence really was.
It feels insulting to think that even in death my existence is “replaceable” with AI.
We focus a lot on the alive person getting comfort from that use of AI but not the dead person and what their existence really was.
It feels insulting to think that even in death my existence is “replaceable” with AI.
Thinking on people using AI to talk to dead people
I think what bothers me is that the person who died likely put a lifetime of things together to be remembered and appreciated on their own.
Like if I died, I’d rather you read my poems then make any mimick of my person, ya know?
I think what bothers me is that the person who died likely put a lifetime of things together to be remembered and appreciated on their own.
Like if I died, I’d rather you read my poems then make any mimick of my person, ya know?
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Thinking on people using AI to talk to dead people
I think what bothers me is that the person who died likely put a lifetime of things together to be remembered and appreciated on their own.
Like if I died, I’d rather you read my poems then make any mimick of my person, ya know?
I think what bothers me is that the person who died likely put a lifetime of things together to be remembered and appreciated on their own.
Like if I died, I’d rather you read my poems then make any mimick of my person, ya know?
If any of you do this to me I swear I will go full poltergeist
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If any of you do this to me I swear I will go full poltergeist
Reposted by Anna E. Cook
Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
I’m gonna use so many variable fonts it’ll make them gay too
December 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I’m gonna use so many variable fonts it’ll make them gay too
Fellas is it gay if I use Calibri
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Fellas is it gay if I use Calibri