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Sophie Koonin
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🐕 Dog botherer
🚀 Staff Eng
🚧 Web1 enthusiast and fan of pointless websites
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I have my 2023 poster framed on my office wall!
A framed poster from Beyond Tellerrand with colourful squares containing found objects. The poster is titled "This website is under construction: a love letter to the personal website". The frame is on a peach coloured wall next to an acoustic guitar. Underneath is a teal armchair with a black cushion on that has a graphic print.
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If you're at @nordicjs.com I'll shortly be making a room full of people question my coding skills as I try and recreate a website without being able to look at a browser...
The main stage at Nordic.JS. A row of people sit at a long table at computers (I'm not among them yet) and the screen says "CODE IN THE DARK sponsored by confetti"
October 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Living for Ulrike blowing everyone's minds with variable fonts (and CSS animations on variable axes)
October 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I am having a BLAST watching @liebefonts.bsky.social demo WordArt-inspired color fonts she's created @nordicjs.com
Ulrike stands on stage in front of a purple-blue 90s style laser grid horizon background with wavy pink and turquoise text that says "the nineties are back!!!!"
October 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Taking psychic damage from descriptions of major version upgrades courtesy of @majapw.bsky.social @ @nordicjs.com
Maja stands in front of a slide saying "1 XX library has released a new version. 2 You have to rewrite everything. 3 There's no extra headcount. 4 Feature development can't stop." Maja stands in front of another slide saying "What do you do? 1 Do nothing at all! (Greyed out) 2 Wite an eslint rule. (Greyed out) 3 Wite an RFC, get leadership buy in, staff a tactical tigerteam, and spend six months getting it done. (Crossed out) 4 Ask the Al. (Greyed out) 5 Write a code modification script or a codemod."
October 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Ok but for real the 5 min @nordicjs.com bird-themed lightning talk by @ninnivictoria.bsky.social was an absolute highlight 🐦
Victoria stands on a stage in front of a slide with a bird on it that says "feat(life): add birds, improve wellbeing" and "I'll can you the life of a showbirdgirl later to help you get started today"
October 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Yes yes YES THIS. The best thing a web dev can do is put the frameworks down sometime and learn how it really works. @una.im @ @nordicjs.com
Una presents a slide that says "the best way to level up your web development skill set is to get good at CSS and HTML"
October 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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October 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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If there's anyone who knows how to make an entrance it's @una.im at @nordicjs.com
Una Kravets with her arms up in the air popping up out of a giant wooden tiered wedding cake covered in pink balloons
October 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Conference badges but make them pretty @nordicjs.com
A pink and yellow Nordic.JS speaker badge on a lanyard. The badge has my name on it and I've written my website addresses Sophie.omg.lol and localghost.dev underneath, covered the badge in star stickers and glitter and hearts
October 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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I'm assuming this is where I'll be giving my talk from at @nordicjs.com
A ball pit on a trampoline in an events space
October 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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We made a bug hotel
A house shaped structure built out of scrap wood, with three levels, divided into two rooms each. The rooms contain materials such as canes, wood with holes drilled in, pine cones and dead leaves. There is a sign on the top that says "ibees" in the style of the ibis hotel logo
August 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Compulsory age verification for UK adults has come to the Bluesky app, and I'm not giving my ID to any websites, which appears to mean I'm stuck with this badge 🫠
The Bluesky app navbar with the messaging icon in the centre, with a badge indicating 1 unread message
August 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Just discovered that the Slack "start date" feature does very little validation
A screenshot of my name from Slack and a badge that says "1,025 years" with a confetti emoji
August 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Show me your getaway vehicle
The Chuckle Brothers in their weird bicycle car with the number plate "CHUCKLE1"
August 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Close up of Penny the honey coloured staffy cross snoozing, with a little pink tongue sticking out
August 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Fastest purchase I've ever made
An Etsy screenshot: "TERFs will be fed to Blobby 38mm Button Badge". A hand holds up a circular badge with a trans flag background and the text TERFS WILL BE FED TO BLOBBY around an illustration of terrifying 90s uk tv mascot Mr Blobby
July 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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If you haven't seen @amyhupe.bsky.social's incredible talk on Systems of Harm, you're missing out (tell your friends) #FrontEndNorth
Amy's slide: Building inclusive systems will make things harder and slow you down Do it anyway.
July 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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So tired of these talks about overhyped new technologies that people are trying to shoehorn into everything. I mean, IMG tags? Why would you ever need that? Can't wait for the hype bubble to burst.
(The brill @whitep4nth3r.com at #FrontEndNorth)
Salma stands in front of a slide made up to look like Netscape Navigator v1.1, which says: HTML 2.0 is here! 1. Released 22nd September 1995 2. New <IMG> tag! 3. Improved browser support 4. The first official set of standards for HTML. S. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been formed
July 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM