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Hazel Weakly

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I have thoughts. Lots of thoughts. They never stop thinking. Never stop thunking. hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 14m

I literally once flew back from a conference so jazzed and full of energy that I went swing dancing right after I got off the plane hahaha

(I have a problem)

I wish I knew how to turn it off sometimes!

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 44m

I love conferences so much. I’m so fuckin extroverted though, it’s unreal. Sometimes I feel like the worlds only extroverted engineer 😅

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 3h

It’s one of my favorites!

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 3h

Thank you! This was a lot of fun to put together!

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 3h

Omg hi! What a coincidence! It was great to catch up with you :)

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 8h

Day two of StaffPlus NY is a go!

Hazel looks at the camera wearing a bookshelf dress, rose earrings, and fire colored makeup

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 9h

I see teams building massive react apps that could be static and then complaining they need to maintain it constantly. Babes, it’s designed for constant churn, of course it needs unnecessary maintenance work

There’s nothing wrong with that, but if you need minimal maintenance, pick the platform

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 9h

I eventually switched it to eleventy after it was clear I could rely on that to be around for a while. Then switched to slightly better html templating. But it’s still all html and css. It’s fast as hell, minimal JavaScript, fully accessible, looks good

… And it was the first website I ever built

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 9h

When I wrote my first website for someone else, I built that thing entirely out of a bash script and raw html and css

I wasn’t sure what static site generator would win, and didn’t want to be forced to maintain the site in the future. I wanted to hand it off to others later

It’s never broken 🤷‍♀️

Andy Bell @bell.bz · 12h

whenever I see a `bet on ${currentHype}` because "the web is in decline" I just smirk because it's a great way of demonstrating you have no idea what you're actually talking about.

the web outlives every "the web is dead, use this thing i like" and will continue to do so.

always bet on the web.

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 9h

Oooh babe you didn’t know about that? It’s based off of the super cool Haskell version :)

I’ve seen some live djs do really fun things with it!

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 17h

Oh hey! Finally someone drew the rest of it!

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

It was so good to meet you in person today!! Your look ate too, as always!

(Not pictured: Niv’s amazing shoe game)

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

Same as “I like brutal honesty”

(Proceeds to be a brutal and cruel shitty person who’s disingenuous and not honest)

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

Thank you! The gel before the heatless curls really helped set the curls and I love ittt

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

But I’ll be speaking today! Catch my talk on Coherent Impact and the Art of Strategy at 11:55am!

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

Ready for day one of StaffPlus NY!

Plus, uhh, Face ID doesn’t work for me anymore because apparently my makeup is too fierce for it? 💁‍♀️

Hazel looking at the camera with an ombré lipstick and bright eyeshadow and a green satin jumpsuit

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

I aim to please 💅💅

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

I mean, fucking over your marginalized populations instead of working with them to design a better protocol and ecosystem is… not the solution I’d do, personally

But I only help architect some of the world’s most reliable and critical infrastructure so what do I know? 🤷‍♀️

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

Or, y’know, burn all your bridges with every marginalized community that ever helped make this site what it is. Tell them to fuck off, and tell them to build their own thing with your non existent tools. That’s also an option!

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

People sit there and wonder why the shit I build works so well and how the fuck I did it for a fraction of the price that they thought possible. It’s not hard, honestly: design for the marginalized

The power law cuts both ways. Use it to your advantage!

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

It’s *so* possible to sit there and figure out a protocol that’s usable by a disabled person in a rural area with ancient computing devices undergoing harassment. You know how many fucking edge cases that covers?

It’s significantly cheaper to do that than to come up with edge cases yourself, too!

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

From one protocol designer to another: the best protocols are built by thinking of the use cases and tooling and enablement first.

Here’s a secret: Design for the margins and the marginalized, then the capabilities fall out naturally and the resulting protocol is extraordinarily robust

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

Likewise, for all the fanfare of how quote posts are better designed now, actual anti harassment and hate management tooling is non existent

“But we’re protocol engineers”. Ok, then build the tools, babe. Is your superior protocol capable of making those tools easy to build? Oh? No? That’s odd…

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

It’s also imminently possible to realize, ahead of time, that the promise of federation doesn’t quite work if the protocol can’t be ran cheaply and effectively. Rather than super scaling one federated system, it could’ve been internally federated from day one if you cared that much 🤷‍♀️