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Jess Rose
@jesslynnrose.bsky.social
A little intense about computers and languages.

She's sorry, but not as sorry as she should be.
My (beloved, long suffering) Indonesian tutor just banned me from applying personal pronouns to abstract concepts, things or animals* until I'm more fluent, because saying things like "I love her" about a cute cake sounds weird at my level 🥲

*yes, even if I love them
December 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Having a really exceptional day for focus and working effectively, going to make sure I spend it on what really matters (being a weird little goblin about language study).
December 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Doing some deep thinking about how to best support new programming learners with their search skills after the enshittification of search is not making me a happier or more hopeful person.
December 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Date night✨🦷
December 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Brutally early for the Open UK awards dinner, because I love being early for everything 🫠
December 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
In a really good mood and gearing up to make it y'all's problem via the magic of the internet.

If you can read this, it is already too late.
December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This seems really specific, but if you're:

✅ A security engineer
✅ UK based
✅ Looking for work
✅ Someone who loves cats

There's a remote role open now at Cats Protection that you might want to check out:
IT Security Engineer at Cats Protection
Apply now for IT Security Engineer, Remote at Cats Protection
careers.cats.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Reposted by Jess Rose
Every year on my birthday I do social media pet court and today is the day 🎉

Reply with a photo of your pet and tell me about their crimes to recieve my faultless judgement and their sentence (if applicable). 👩‍⚖️🐾
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Every year on my birthday I do social media pet court and today is the day 🎉

Reply with a photo of your pet and tell me about their crimes to recieve my faultless judgement and their sentence (if applicable). 👩‍⚖️🐾
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
May I please have £300k for this very Hobbit-coded 14th century watermill. It's a wildlife conservation area with otters and living here would fix me.

www.rightmove.co.uk/...
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
To not reinforce bad behaviour, I ignore my cats acting out for attention...unless they're doing something so dangerous or so destructive that I'm forced to step in.

After a long period of pattern matching, they now smash glasses and performatively chew plastic when they think it is mealtime.
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Super normal and chill way to sit, little man. Very reassuring and not haunted at all.
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Learning passive voice in Indonesian and my homework included an example with exeronative cop voice (Kaki demonstran itu tertembak.) and I am scrambling to find the vocabulary to learn more about its use in Indonesian because I am very chill and normal.
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love Anki. I want so badly to love to use Anki but the UI makes me understand why the owl app is so popular.

Can anyone recommend me a flashcard app that doesn't feel like pulling teeth?
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
If you apply for and get this job after discovering it from this post, you're contractually* bound to make them give me a free workshop, their workshops are so cool

*this is a joke. Unless...👀
Super rare tech for good job, @bellingcat.com is hiring a Director of Development and Partnerships.

They very rarely hire, so jump on this if it looks like a good fit.

- US remote
- Focus on fundraising + revenue with clear goals
- Est 30% travel to US/EU
- $160-200k

www.on-ramps.com/jobs/3518
Bellingcat US | Director of Development and Partnerships
Bellingcat is an independent community of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists who pioneered open source investigations tools. With precision and perseverance, Bellingcat exposes everyt...
www.on-ramps.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Thinking about a deeply chaotic way to practice informal written Indonesian, should I make an insta account for my cats and detail their many, many crimes for language practice?
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Setting up a new (secondhand) computer and this short, beautiful time before I'm logged into apps that send notifications is an active delight.

This is why I used to love computers.
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reposted by Jess Rose
👀 I am looking for work 👀

Need help implementing, creating, or sustaining your design tokens workflow? Let's talk.

I can help you build a robust design tokens system that bridges design and development.

DM me or email [email protected]

🙏🖤
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Trying to send a bank transfer to an American account and spiraling as I wonder why America was allowed to have such an outsized impact on global affairs.

This doesn't need to be this hard. This is not a system built by a serious country.
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Social media confession time, I have betrayed all of my core values and moved to London.

Birmingham remains the best city in the UK* and I was right to have made it the keystone of my identity.

*Glasgow is also good as hell, it's the Brum of Scotland
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Started my morning by talking to my Indonesian tutor about the current British weather to make sure everyone is as horrified as I am living in it.
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Have just learned that eligible employees of the University of Essex get waivers for the full cost of their tuition, even if they're part time.

www.essex.ac.uk/staf...

They would never get rid of me. I would do every single degree.
Employee Tuition Fee Waiver | University of Essex
The waiver of tuition fees for staff is available for specific courses.
www.essex.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Saw a weird gift in the wild today and was lightly overwhelmed with remembering how much of web communication used to be gif based and seeing how quickly that changed.
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Reposted by Jess Rose
October 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I've got capacity for contracting till the end of the year (and am starting to book out some of my 2026 calendar).

Shout if you need help with open source community work, developer education, developer outreach, multilingual community work or other Jess-shaped things.

hello(a)jessica*tech or DM👋
November 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM