Sophie

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🐕 Dog botherer 🚀 Staff Eng 🚧 Web1 enthusiast and fan of pointless websites 👻 localghost.dev #TransRightsAreHumanRights Banner pic: florian.photo

A snoozing honey coloured staffy sleeps on a light blue armchair. There are two cushions above her head: one with a fox print and one with an abstract black and white pattern.
A promotional graphic for Pixel Pioneers Bristol on 19 June 2026 - An affordable community conference for front-end developers and UX/Ul designers. Featuring Candi Williams, Morgane Peng and Rachel Andrew.
The front cover of a very late 90s book, "MAKE YOUR OWN WEBPAGE! A guide for Kids From the Creators of Internet for Kids! By Ted Pedersen and Francis Moss". There is an illustration of a beige desktop computer with the words "web page" popping out of it, plus a mouse mat shaped like a wedge of Swiss cheese, and a mouse that looks like the animal. The mouse is saying "from the creators of internet for kids!"
Penny the Staffy wears bat wings and sits with her back to the camera, looking at the camera.
Jess and Eda in front of a slide that says "Code you did not write is code you do not understand. You cannot maintain code you do not understand."
Chetan stands on the stage in front of a slide of laughing old white men in suits with the caption "SHAREHOLDERS", with a picture of a grimacing Sam Altman superimposed on top.
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.
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.
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.
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"
A screen capture of a round button in the bottom right corner of a browser window, with a simplistic black line-art drawing of a face. The face blinks and moves from side to side without the user interacting with it.
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.
A roadsign pointing to the M40 and "Bishop's Itchington" B4451
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"
Ulrike demoes a "Foam party" font, animated with bubbles moving around the letters
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!!!!"
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."
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"
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"
Animated GIF of Una Kravets popping out of a giant wooden cake, raising her hands in the air
Una Kravets with her arms up in the air popping up out of a giant wooden tiered wedding cake covered in pink balloons
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
A ball pit on a trampoline in an events space
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
The Bluesky app navbar with the messaging icon in the centre, with a badge indicating 1 unread message
A screenshot of my name from Slack and a badge that says "1,025 years" with a confetti emoji
The Chuckle Brothers in their weird bicycle car with the number plate "CHUCKLE1"
Close up of Penny the honey coloured staffy cross snoozing, with a little pink tongue sticking out
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
Amy's slide: Building inclusive systems will make things harder and slow you down Do it anyway.
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
Andy stands at the front of a lecture hall at Front End North in front of a slide that says "developers hate this one weird trick"
A notebook with a Gudetama sticker and a pen on a fold-out table
Katie Fenn stands at the front of a lecture hall in front of a slide with the agenda for the conference: MORNING 10:10 Andy Bell 10:45 Olu Niyi-Awosusi 11:50 Nils Binder 12:25 Amy Rogers 13:00 Lunch AFTERNOON 14:30 Salma Alam-Naylor 15:05 Amy Hupe 16:10 Craig Abbott 16:45 Joe Hart 17:30 Social
A small honey-coloured staffy cross wears a blue watermelon/patterned bandana
A barren looking raised planter on a concrete patio. It contains large white rocks and a black plant pot full of soil, plus a ragged looking grass.
The book "Learning TypeScript: Enhance Your Web Development Skills Using Type-Safe JavaScript By Josh Goldberg"
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My right foot, I'm wearing black socks with a white pixelated dog pattern
Screenshot of a text message exchange: Text Message • SMS Today 14:06 Following on from your quotation from Anglian windows, we now have some additional discounts in place due to there being a bank holiday, A revised quotation will be emailed to you including the discounts, this offer will end @ 2pm on Saturday 24th may. Please contact myself (redacted) showroom manager should you wish to proceed on (redacted) Thank you My reply: Stop Their reply: Sorry
A photograph of a garden with two cheap plastic grow houses, and some flower-filled plant pots in front. There is a small furry pair of legs and a tail sticking out of the bottom of one of the grow houses, belonging to a honey coloured dog
I'm on the sofa with my legs stretched out, and a honey coloured dog is sleeping on my legs facing away from the camera
A yellow pot of original Ramona's heavenly humous, made with love and chickpeas
A photo of a door in St Paul's Church Covent Garden with a code lock on it, and a sign saying "press F after entering code"
Sara on stage in front of a screen showing Henry's website.
A ginger-coloured dog curled up in a ball on the sofa next to a person wearing jeans (just visible)
The sickos meme with the man putting his hands against a window and saying "yes...ha ha ha... yes!"
a screenshot of the Giphy app for Slack. it is an ephemeral message ("only visible to you") and it says "giphy could not match just a little guy"
"The worst person you know" a man looking directly into a camera from the Clickhole article "Breaking: the worst person you know just made a great point"
Slack screenshot of the bug emoji, with a top hat and a cane. Underneath it says "You (click to remove) reacted with :feature:"
A photo of Sophie transposed onto the Simpsons' living room with a christmas tree and fireplace. There is a santa hat and beard photoshopped onto Sophie's head.
A well-loved Macintosh Classic computer in a cardboard box. It has a floppy drive and a tiny screen. Its beige exterior is very yellowed.
Black socks patterned with the annoying dog from Undertale
An old brindle and white Staffordshire Bull Terrier, greying around the face and muzzle, lying on his front on the sofa with his tiny paws either side of his face, eyes closed.
A planter within a larger raised bed. It contains a bushy plant covered in bright orange and green tomato-like berries, a tall spiky blue grass, three cabbage-like ornamental brassicas that are purple and white in the middle, some mossy looking blue grass, a little bit of green foliage spraying out the front, a white cyclamen at the back
Sophie stands backstage bent over her laptop, checking her slides before she goes on
Hidde and Marc stand on stage in front of a slide that says Creativity cannot be computed
Hand lettered copper metallic writing on black paper that says “live through the ditches laugh through the witches love in the back of my Dragula “