Monica Cellio
cellio.bsky.social
Monica Cellio
@cellio.bsky.social
Tech writer, OSS contributor, Jewish, Internet old-timer. I'm curious and sometimes geeky about many things and aspire to keep learning, always.

Community Lead at codidact.com; opinions mine.
Reposted by Monica Cellio
not to point at anyone in particular, but I have been in and on many different internet communities of various shapes/sizes/technologies and one mistake I consistently see made is assuming the technical part of running a community is the hard part.

it's not.
it's the social part.
it's moderation.
October 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Today I learned a *lot* about how a #UPS works. The question that started me down this path was: why would a UPS shut off and thus turn off my computer when the power didn't go out?

Thanks, EE #Codidact! I learned things today beyond "I need a new UPS".
electrical.codidact.com/posts/290774
Why would a standby UPS fail to power devices when there's no power outage?
I have an ordinary consumer-grade standby UPS with, I believe, ample power for the devices connected to it.[^1] It's five years old. For the second t...
electrical.codidact.com
February 14, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Reposted by Monica Cellio
I saw a take that was like "bluesky needs an algorithm, I don't want to see 100 posts like 'i made coconut curry today'" and I cannot disagree more. I log on to humanity's World Wide Web to see human thoughts. I do not need a god damned robot to tell me which thoughts it thinks are the most human
January 4, 2024 at 12:14 PM
You know what small accessibility thing Bluesky needs? Tooltips on icons! I didn't realize quite how much I depend on those for learning a new UI until I tried to navigate here. Designers, your icons aren't always obvious to others and sometimes they're too small. Tooltips are cheap; let's use them.
January 5, 2024 at 4:23 AM
Reposted by Monica Cellio
Ok, time to throw a work question out to the intertoobs since my search-fu is failing me.

Does anyone know of tool which integrates C++ snippets with doxygen @code blocks?

Basically I want something that reads snippets from a file and inserts them in doxygen comments (or markdown files).
October 11, 2023 at 10:30 PM