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Sophie Koonin
@localghost.dev
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🐕 Dog botherer
🚀 Staff Eng
🚧 Web1 enthusiast and fan of pointless websites
👻 localghost.dev


#TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Reposted by Sophie Koonin
lookitup.baby
Speakers, don’t assume the knowledge level of your audience. If you have a new person there and you say “I assume everyone here is familiar with this” they don’t learn anything and they probably feel bad about themselves. Better to just explain the thing. The people who are familiar with it can deal
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
localghost.dev
#BTConf Berlin FOMO begins! Have fun for me
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Reposted by Sophie Koonin
loftio.co.uk
Does anybody have some links to some fuckin' rad designer or developer portfolio sites?

Would love to see!
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
localghost.dev
Happy halloween from my minion!
A golden red staffy dog wearing bat wings sits on a chevron-patterned rug on a laminate wood floor, body facing away from the camera but looking back at the camera.
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Reposted by Sophie Koonin
rosemarymosco.com
Halloween costume ideas for birders.
A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
localghost.dev
Just built my first scroll-driven animation for production and you BET I got that dopamine when it worked
October 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
localghost.dev
"It's very clear that a lot of the new AI era is about dismantling the web's original design... a new Internet where there's no concept of consent for either users or those who create content and culture — everything is just raw materials, and all of us are fair game."
anildash.com Anil Dash @anildash.com · 19d
Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
localghost.dev
@piccalil.li hello! I have been using JS for a long time, will there be things I can get out of JS for Everyone? (The name suggests yes). I want to know the weird stuff, basically
October 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
localghost.dev
My dog jingles a string of bells to be let outside but she's started doing it while we're eating breakfast in the hopes we'll leave our food unattended to go and open the back door
October 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
localghost.dev
I don't know if I'm ready for Bloodlines 2 to be mediocre. I love the original so much even with its slightly-unfinished jankiness and patience-testing sewer level.
October 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Reposted by Sophie Koonin
dasharez0ne.bsky.social
NO!!!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELITON LOOKS DOWN FROM HELL ON TO THERE OLD COMPUTER DISPLAYING "DA SHARE Z0NE" WEB PAGE , AND DA TEXT SAYS "I DONT WANT TO DISABLE MY AD BLOCKER, I DONT WANT TO ENTER MY EMAILL TO SEE MORE, I DONT WANT TO REACH THE END OF MY FREE ARTICLES, I WANT TO GO TO A WEB PAGE AND READ THE DAMB WEB PAGE " - THE PROMISE OF "GOING ON THE COMPUTER" HAS BECOME A PROCESS OF GETING BLASTED IN DA FACE WITH BULL SHIT WHILE YOUR TRYING TO LOOK STUFF UP, AND THEY DID IT ON PURPOSE SO THAT WE WOULDNT HAVE FUN FOR FREE, AND NOW THAT THEY RUINED ALL THE PUBLICATIONS AND WEB SITES, THERE TELLIN US "JUST ASK THE AI TO FIND SHIT FOR YOU" BUT WE ALREADY HAD AN APP THAT WOULD GIVE US INFOMATION THAT WE WANTED!!! IT WAS CALLED A FUCKEN WEB BROWSER!!!!! CAPTALISM MUST BE DESTROYED FOR THE USUAL REASONS BUT ALSO BECUASE IT RUINED THE COMPUTER FOR US!!! NO ONE LIKES THAT THEY BURNED THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA BUT WE HAD ANOTHER ONE 10 YEAR'S AGO AND INSTEAD OF 1 FIRE IT WAS 100000, PIECE BY PIECE, AND THEN THEY REPLACED THE DAMB CARD CATALOG WITH A COMPUTER THAT MAKES SHIT UP ,BUT IM STILL KICKEN A$$ AND IM GOING TO THE WOODS NOW AND THEY DONT HAVE ADS THERE YET SO GO THERE WHILE YOU STILL CAN - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
June 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Reposted by Sophie Koonin
ericisgood.bsky.social
I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women dont like the vehicle.
weiner
October 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Sophie Koonin
nordicjs.com
“Don’t do a migration just because you don’t like someone else’s technology choices.”
- Sophie Koonin @localghost.dev shared her lessons learned from a large-scale TypeScript migration at @monzo.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Bq...
October 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Reposted by Sophie Koonin
transactualuk.bsky.social
🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
October 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
localghost.dev
New favourite T-shirt
Sophie's wearing a grey shirt with the sleeves rolled up, with 90s style text "WEBMASTER" and then some low quality graphics of computer things from the 90s/00s - old computers, Windows icons, error messages and CD roms. Sophie stands in front of the mirror in her bedroom, one hand on her hip and the other holding her phone. She has mid length brown hair and is wearing black corduroy trousers.
October 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
localghost.dev
thanks to @una.im's talk at @nordicjs.com for the fact that I am about to delete some code and drop this in the PR description
A two-pane comic based on Kate Beaton's work, drawn in sketchy blank ink. In the first frame, a zoomed out view of a tiny seagull next to a bench with a woman tossing some breadcrumbs, line-art trees in the background. The seagull is saying "Aw yiss". In the second pane, a close-up of the seagull's face in profile, and three separate speech bubbles: "motha" "freakin" "implicit anchor reference"
October 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Reposted by Sophie Koonin
piccalil.li
It's here. JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone!

The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it.

Get yours for £189, down from £249, for 2 weeks and super-charge your career prospects

piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...
JavaScript for Everyone
A high quality, expansive written course that will elevate your JavaScript skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
piccalilli.link
October 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
localghost.dev
I'm so tired today that I clapped at the end of a meeting
October 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
localghost.dev
Today's bonk on the head goes to Notion, for making their little "Use our AI assistant!" badge animate every so often and therefore distracting me from the doc I'm trying to read. As if Clippy couldn't get any more annoying
October 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
localghost.dev
React major version upgrade
unenthusiast.com Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 29d
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/
hammancheez.bsky.social hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 29d
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
localghost.dev
Can anyone recommend a decent sub-£100 soldering iron? Mine's rubbish
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reposted by Sophie Koonin
edent.tel
The layout of this paper is expert level trolling!

journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl...
View of Optimal Line Length in Reading — A Literature Review
journals.uc.edu
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
localghost.dev
I'm about halfway through this brilliant book and thoroughly recommend it for any fellow etymology nerds (or anyone who's ever attempted to teach English as a foreign language and come up against some seriously difficult questions about why we spell stuff like we do!)
dannybate.bsky.social Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.bsky.social · Oct 1
I now believe it's real.
Me, smiling, holding a copy of my book.
October 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
localghost.dev
Major @webdevconf.com FOMO but then I am rather enjoying this view
An expanse of water surrounded by tall trees, mist falling over the horizon. The sky is grey and overcast. The trees are reflected in the silvery water. In the foreground, a craggy shoreline covered in grass and moss.
October 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
localghost.dev
English village names never fail to delight
A roadsign pointing to the M40 and "Bishop's Itchington" B4451
October 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM