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Kris Howard
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Blogger, knitter, crafter, social media addict. Formerly at Canva & AWS. Recovering from 20 years in the tech industry. | 🇦🇺🇺🇸 she/her
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🚴‍♀️ Ride: Evening Ride - Took advantage of an unexpectedly sunny evening!
Distance: 19.26km
Time: 76min https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/89152
🚴‍♀️ Ride: Evening Ride
Took advantage of an unexpectedly sunny evening!Distance: 19.26kmTime: 76min
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November 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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no sorry you’re right this technology is absolutely worth depleting our water supply
a screenshot that says “make it a cartoon with Meta AI” and is a picture of me and then a cartoon version that looks absolutely nothing like me because AI is trash
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Uni Watch - I was doing my daily archive pruning (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/53658) today and discovered I’d linked to Uni Watch (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/6224) way back in 2006. Uni Watch is/was a niche blog about sports uniforms, a... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/89150
Tending to my digital garden
I've been thinking a lot about link rot lately, and how many of the links I have shared on my blog over the years are now dead. I also have a lot of old posts that are missing titles, categories, and tags. Therefore I've taken a cue from Terence Eden and I've started a project to "tend to my digital
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November 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Viva Las Vegas - Don’t mind me, just sitting here watching our wedding video and sobbing. That was so fun. I forgot we promised to be best friends. We both looked so young and beautiful (even in that crappy resolution). Fun trivia: Rodd wore the very sa... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/89144
Viva Las Vegas
Don't mind me, just sitting here watching our wedding video and sobbing. That was so fun. I forgot we promised to be best friends. We both looked so young and beautiful (even in that crappy resolution). Fun trivia: Rodd wore the very same jacket to dinner the other night! (I still have my dress, but
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November 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Saga Bar and Ester - For our anniversary on Thursday, we decided to keep things local and stick around Chippendale. First we had a booking at Saga Bar (https://www.sagabarsydney.com.au/) for cocktails. Rodd had somehow heard of it but we’d never been be... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/89098
A smiling man in glasses. Behind him is a cocktail bar lit up with brilliant green and gold lightning. Two middle-aged people in a cocktail bar with drinks, one of which has a huge smoke bubble on top A cocktail in the foreground. Behind it sits a middle-aged man at a table in a cocktail bar. Two plates on a table at a restaurant. One has a small loaf of bread with a spread; the other has two dark dumplings.
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Web Directions Developer Summit 2025 - This past week Rodd and I attended the Web Directions Developer Summit 2025 (https://webdirections.org/dev-summit/), and as usual John Allsopp put on a program that both challenged and inspired. I actually started my... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/89076
A man with a microphone on stage in front of a slide that says Web Directions Dev Summit A man speaking in front of an audience. A slide behind him says "The Browser Strikes Back: Rethinking the modern dev stack" A man on stage at a tech event. A slide reads "Why do simple frontend tasks always turn out to be so complicated?" A slide from a technical conference. The text reads: Complexity in Frontend Is Inevitable Don't chase simplicity by ignoring the real-world problems your app needs to solve, instead, design for complexity. Think in Systems, Even in the Frontend Frontend is no longer a collection of isolated components — it's a distributed system in the browser. Design for Failure, not Just the Happy Path. Modern frontends are asynchronous, distributed, and unreliable - embrace that reality. Build Your Personal Mental Model. You don't need to know everything, but you do need a map — a structure of concepts like data flow, caching, il8n, and accessibility that helps you reason about complexity.
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Marimekko Field of Flowers 2025 - A few weeks ago someone (my friend Meredith?) told me about the Marimekko Field of Flowers pop-up exhibition (https://archive.is/90czi), and today I finally made it over to Westfield to check it out.

It’s located on th... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/89074
A sign that says Marimekko Field of Flowers Exhibition. Behind it and on the wall are bold colourful floral prints. Part of a pop-up cafe/shop with large panels of boldly colourful printed florals Two people in a funhouse mirror that makes their legs look really long. The border of the mirror is decorated with bright floral motifs. A table laden with coffee mugs, all printed with bright floral designs
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Random links - Clearing out the browser tabs…

- Simplified developer access to AWS with ‘aws login’ (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/simplified-developer-access-to-aws-with-aws-login/) – That is actually super cool and useful! I’ll have t... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/89015
Simplified developer access to AWS with ‘aws login’ | Amazon Web Services
Getting credentials for local development with AWS is now simpler and more secure. A new AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) command, aws login, lets you start building immediately after signing up for AWS without creating and managing long-term access keys. You use the same sign-in method you already use for the AWS Management Console. […]
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November 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Rainy day - We had another setback in our attempts to protect our magnolia tree from Mr. Possum. This time it was entirely self-afflicted though! The weather has turned rainy, and the water made the netting (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/88541) we s... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/88913
A magnolia tree next to a fence with a big pile of wet white netting A view looking down at a person's feet wearing yellow gumboots, standing on wet pavement.
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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This is about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From climate change to education. Our systems are not serving us well, and it's time to push back.

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The Art of Being Difficult
I want to talk about change, about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From c…
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November 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Donate to your local food bank instead.
raynegrimm.bsky.social Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · Oct 20
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
A I age showing a typical collection bucket for the salvation army which is read with a lid holding mechanism on a tripod holder. There is a big stop/do not symbol over the hand depositing money with the words "we don't donate to the Bigot bucket" over the bottom bucket section
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Happy anniversary to us - 21 years being married to my bestie… https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/88910
Two middle-aged people in a cocktail bar with drinks, one of which has a huge smoke bubble on top
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Web Directions Dev Summit - There are some people who, after they’ve left the tech industry, take the opportunity to not wear branded tech clothing. And then there are others who just want to sartorially shitpost. https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/88896
Two middle aged people at a tech conference. The woman is wearing a black and grey striped t-shirt with no obvious logo. The man is wearing a grey t-shirt with a prominent A logo for Angular.js.
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - So last night we watched Martha, George, Nick, and Honey descend into alcohol-soaked rage and despair at the Sydney Theater Company (https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/whats-on/productions/2025/edward-albees-whos-afraid-o... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/88832
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Oh, this is wonderful stuff from @lindamciver.adsei.org

Powerful mix of anger and love, darkness and light, detail and story, articulating the bullshit around AI and tech, and the need to be "horrible, ungrateful people".

Give it a read
The Art of Being Difficult
I want to talk about change, about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From c…
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November 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Who’s at Web Directions Dev Summit today? It was a delight to run into my old colleague Belinda McKeon working the Figma booth. ❤️ #webdirections
Two middle aged dorks taking a selfie in front of a lovely woman at a Figma booth at a tech event
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf? - We’re the Sydney Theatre Company. The last time I saw this show, I was stage managing it… decades ago. https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/88830
Two middle aged people in front of a large poster for the play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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🚴‍♀️ Ride: Library - Distance: 4.34km
Time: 19min https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/88828
🚴‍♀️ Ride: Library
Distance: 4.34kmTime: 19min
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November 18, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Movie Hat Knitting Patterns - This is neat. Someone has put together a collection of knitting patterns (https://intheloopknitting.com/movie-hat-knitting-patterns/) for hats from various movies. My Dad might need Kevin McCallister’s Moose Hat (https://ww... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/88825
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Books I’ve finished recently - In recent weeks I’ve powered through three more of the #AubreyMaturin books… plus one very, very weird one from Kate Folk that I had to wait for months to get my hands on. Here are my review notes if you’re not on Go... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/88769
Books I’ve finished recently
In recent weeks I've powered through three more of the #AubreyMaturin books... plus one very, very weird one from Kate Folk that I had to wait for months to get my hands on. 😂✈️ Here are my review notes if you're not on Goodreads. The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin #4) by Patrick O'Bri
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November 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Random Links - Clearing out the browser tabs…

- stickertop.art (https://stickertop.art/main/) – Love this ode to laptop stickers. It sent me on a quest to find one of my favourite Amazon laptops (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/date/2020/02/page/... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/88707
A screenshot of a Bluesky post from @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social that says: "Every day someone new learns that Oscar Isaac was in a late 90s Christian ska band. Who will today’s person be." with a phot of a dodgy looking 90's ska band
November 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Granny Square Pajama Pants - Sometimes I’m a genius.

Guess what? These are NOT crocheted!

A few months back I was doing my daily archive pruning, and I discovered a post from fifteen years ago (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/9150) where I linked ... https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/88673
A mirror selfie of a woman in a brown linen shirt. She's wearing pajama pants that appear to be crocheted granny squares. A large piece of fabric spread out on a floor, with a sewing pattern on top of it. On top of that are a ruler, a remote control, and various books acting as pattern weights. A front view of a person wearing loose pajama pants printed with granny squares A rear view of a person wearing loose pajama pants printed with granny squares
November 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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"It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until IT HAPPENS. Looking at the data, it is statistically plausible that IT will HAPPEN in the next thirty-six months. Eighteen, if you factor in hamburger consumption and all the weird bruising."
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Every day someone new learns that Oscar Isaac was in a late 90s Christian ska band. Who will today’s person be.
Five guys who simply ooze late '90s Florida youth group pastor from every pore, hanging out at a bar. In the center is a young man with a handkerchief tied over his head and a Corona in his hand. Even in these tender years, you can tell this man has got some sauce in the way the rest of his pals don't. It's his stare, his slightly pouted lips. Even if you didn't know who he was, you'd guess he was meant for big things. You'd be right. It's Oscar Isaac.
September 2, 2023 at 2:53 PM
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Classic #sewing blunder: “I’ll just change the colour of thread in the overlocker. That’ll only take a few minutes.” 🫠 (I did try the trick of trying the new thread on the old one. That failed rather spectacularly.)
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM