Sara Joy ☠️

@sjoy.lol

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Fronty-front end developer. Extremely online since 1998! I'm a cis het elder millennial mum of 2, she/her. I like bikes, buses, trains and Inclusivity. ♿✊🏿🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🚲 (see also @sarajw.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy - bridged Mastodon account)

Calvin (a boy) and Hobbes (his tiger) comic strip:

Panel 1:
Calvin is running, looking panicked.
"It's July already! Oh no! Oh no!"

Panel 2:
Calvin stands in front of Hobbes, arms wide.
"What happened to June?! Summer vacation is slipping through our fingers like grains of sand!"

Panel 3:
Calvin is clutching his head.
"It's going too fast! We've got to hoard our freedom and have more fun! Time rushes on! Help! Help!"

Panel 4:
Hobbes puts his hand to his mouth.
"I don't think I want to be here at the end of August."
Calvin is running again, looking at his watch.
"AAUGH! It's a half-hour later than it was half an hour ago! Run! Run!"

A political leaflet by Count Binface, whose picture also features - a person dressed in a grey super-hero type suit, with silver cape, and wearing a helmet which is in the shape of a large metal dustbin, with handles for ears, a big black square for the mouth and a blue futuristic looking slot for the eyes.

1. I will cut your taxes, and raise everyone else's.
2. All 99 Flake ice-creams to cost no more than 99p and Wigan Kebabs to be price-capped at £2.
3. Rephase the traffic lights on Liverpool Road to ease congestion.
4. Corners to be refereed properly in football.
5. People who use speakerphones on public transport to be conscripted.
6. Wifi on trains that works. Also trains that work.
7. The £6.6 million Ashton-in-Makerfield regeneration scheme to be regenerated.
8. Pensions to be double-locked, with an extra little chain on the side.
9. Cyclists who break the highway code to be forced to ride unicycles instead.
10. Elected mayors to be ineligible for Parliament until after their term of office.
11. Free parking at the Gerard Centre to be increased to 3 hours.
12. Auto-renew on all online subscriptions to be abolished immediately.
13. HS2 to be renamed FFS1 and rerouted so it ploughs through rail execs' homes.
14. Galloway Bakers' 'Full Monty Bin Lid' breakfast to be Britain's new national dish.
15. Tries in Rugby League to be increased from 4 to 5 points in line with inflation.
16. Ceefax to be brought back for the entire Greater Manchester area.
17. MPs to lose their subsidy for cheap food and drink in Parliament.
18. The hand-dryer in the gents' toilet at the Crown & Treaty pub, Uxbridge to be moved to a more sensible position.
19. Count Binface to be the UK's entrant at Eurovision 2027.
20. I stand by my past manifestos: croissants, Brexit, Trident, building at least one affordable house: I've got it all covered.

COUNT BINFACE PARTY
MAKERFIELD GREAT AGAIN

Published and promoted by Count Binface, The Count Binface Party, PO Box 818, Tonbridge, TN9 9YF

A selfie of Ana, myself and Bruce together. Ana looks young, fresh and feminine with long hair, I look early middle aged and wear glasses and my hair short, Bruce has short grey hair and glasses and a cheeky smile.

A photo of Josh all in a flap as Artem points mock-menacingly at him.

Screenshot of the day's heart rate graph in what used to be the Fitbit app - between the times of 12 and 16 (4pm), my heart rate is jumping between the moderate and vigorous zones, even briefly hitting peak. The most consistently high rates are just before 16.

Sara smiling happily in front of a big CSS Day screen which includes the comment /* That's it for today */

Sara stood in front of one of the canals - boats lining the edge, a barge moving down the middle. Trees line the sides of the canal, in front of 5-6 floor buildings along the roads behind.

Sara is sat on a bus going through suburbia wearing a wet red raincoat, beside her is a wet red luggage bag, and a rucksack covered in a wet neon yellow rain cover.

A photo of Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise casino and Biff Tannen's Museum, from the set of Back To The Future II. There is a lot of neon and sparkly lights. On the frontage of the casino is a picture of Biff lighting a cigar on a fistful of burning dollar bills.

The two members of the band Yello comically mouthing "Oh yeah!"

Either or both of them could be a Bond villain.

A packet of holographic stickers on sheets from Sticker App.

Each sticker has the text:
#inclusive.front{}

Screenshot from StickerApp website, I've made a sticker sheet with lots of holographic stickers of the text #inclusive.front{}

Other text on page:

Aufkleber Bögen
13 x 16.3 cm
Holografisch / Glänzend

5Stück
37,00 €
7,40 €/Computer

(...no I don't know why it says per Computer either)

A photo of Sara on a bike, she's wearing a white and grey helmet and a jersey which is yellow and blue and purple and covered in abstract shapes somewhat reminiscent of the Saved By The Bell titles.

Screenshot of the PDS MOOver, with a cute cow image (she has a bell on her tail) and the text:

PDS MOOver
Cartoon milk cow
Made by @baileytownsend.dev
Buy Me a Coffee at ko-fi.com

***Please make sure to stay on this page during the MOOve for the best result.***
Migrating blobs: 10/489

Sara is doing a very awkward pose in front of a mirror to get the full back panel of the shirt and half of her face in shot.

The T shirt design features a Mola Mola, a.k.a. Ocean Sunfish, surrounded by the words "whatever's wrong with me, it's working". The Mola Mola is a huuuuge fish that looks like it's missing its whole rear half.

Screenshot of YouTube video thumbnail:

A presumably AI-generated picture of Trump sitting at the oval office desk with lots of angry MAGA-hat-wearing men shouting at him.

There's a red arrow pointing at Trump in case we don't know who the caption refers to - THE big text across the picture says in all caps "Trump is done!!"

The video title is (all caps again):
"The world has turned on Trump... He's done!!"

Whimsical 3D text written on a curled banner: "Maybe it will happen today"

Screenshot of my messing around on the MDN page for the radial-gradient() function, where I've made four huge circles whose centres are far away from the edges of the box, but whose edges overlap just into the sides of it. The outcome is a shape that has very pointy corners and inward curving sides.

Stats for uncropped image, quality is 42%, compression ratio 73.2:1.

Screenshot from video tutorial, subtitles say "text is now red!" and the generated code is showing the beginnings of elements with lots of classNames:

<div className="flex flex-col items-ce
<h1 className="max-w-xs text-3x1 fon
<h1 className="max-w-xs text-3x1 fon

A Serieparaden front cover, number 2 from 1991. The pride was 14.50 Kronor. Kalle & Hobbe are seen relaxing against a tree, reading comics. Two other comics are featured on the cover, "Familjen Grizzly" and "Träsket".

A tree and hedge lined track, all covered in snow, snow stuck to every branch, some snow gently raining down. The sun is behind the scene, lighting the edges of all the snow. A person is walking along in the background.

President Trump pulls a goonish face as he cartoonishly picks up the FIFA Peace Prize medal.

Two lemons have had ears and a mouth cut into them, cloves for eyes, toothpicks for legs, a coil of aluminium foil for a twirly tail, and a small silver coloured coin pushed into their mouths.

A photo with my partner and eldest child anonymised with emoji faces. There is a huge pile of luggage, far more than two adults can carry. The child is sitting in a buggy.

Lowly Worm from the Richard Scarry books. An illustration of an anthropomorphised worm - wearing a green felt hat in a Bavarian style a red bow tie, a blue top section, green lower section, and a single shoe. He is coiled up a little like a pretzel.

Smashing newsletter screenshot:

Person Of The Week: Kilian Valkhof

Please give a warm round of applause for our Person of the Week: Kilian Valkhof! Kilian is a front-end developer with over 20 years of experience who switched from building websites to creating tools that make web development more effective and efficient.

Kilian is the founder and solo developer of Polypane, a desktop browser that helps web developers with responsive design, accessibility, and SEO testing. He also created Superposition, a tool to extract design tokens from websites, and FixA11y, a browser extension that automatically fixes contrast issues. Kilian regularly shares his insights as a writer and conference speaker.

Thank you for everything you do for the community, dear Kilian! 🧡

Compo, Foggy and Cleggy from Last of the Summer Wine TV Sitcom. They are old men wearing tweed jackets and flat caps (Compo wears his trademark woolly hat, Foggy also wears a camel duffel coat), looking dishevelled but charming, standing in front of Yorkshire countryside.

The General Joy poster of a bunch of people enjoying a ride on the top of an open-top double decker bus, being bathed in warm golden sunlight, framed and leaning against our dining table.

Social media screenshot:

Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand

In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:

- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic

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Digital flier for online event:

VENNGAGE

The Accessibility Edition:

Is Al Here to Take Your Job?

November 5, 2025 at 2:00pm ET

Featuring:

Sara Joy W.

Frontend Web Developer and Advocate for Inclusive Web Development

A photo of me looking sideways at the camera fills the bottom right corner.

A swirly banner in baby pinks and blues, with 3D block text on it, saying "maybe it will happen today"

A pencil drawing of the 2025 internet by me.

A big "krAIken" is suckering itself to all the parts of the internet, shown inside 9 bubble letters that spell out "oligopoly". Tendrils further connect companies across several parts.

The social media part is all cracked up. Company and service names are all over the letters, lots of -ism and -phobia and other emotive words are written between them. There is an app planet with API rockets flying to and from it.

The Web part looks blackened, unwell, and is melting. The drips are falling down into puddles on some kind of planet surface. This is the personal web - from it grow flowers and fungi.

Peering over the planet edge is a character with the words "Populist authoritarian - so much... So manipulatable..."

Screenshot of a page at truity.com

Your Enneagram Results

The graphic below shows your scores for each of the nine Enneagram types. The larger the area of a portion, the higher your score for that particular type.

Diagram shows larger portions at 7 and 8, then slightly smaller across the chart at 4 and 3. 2, 5 and 9 are middling, 6 smaller, and 1 much smaller.

About Your Type

Sevens are defined by their desire to experience everything good and pleasurable that the world has to offer, while avoiding pain, boredom, and [fades and cuts off at bottom of page]

My luggage: A small red pull-along case plus a pirateship.com tote placed atop it, standing on an oak-leaf strewn pavement while waiting for a bus.

A densely packed collage of colorful stickers, affixed to a dark laptop. The stickers feature a variety of themes, primarily related to web development, coding, and internet culture, with some whimsical and abstract designs mixed in.

There's a dominant color palette of pink, purple, blue, and white. Key stickers include those with text, such as “ANTI JAVASCRIPT CLUB,” “CSS IS AWESOME,” “TAKE HYPERTEXT TO HYPERSPACE,” “WEB PLATFORM,” “NO DEPLOYS ON FRIDAYS,” “HARD WORK PAYS OFF,” and “No link shaming.” Several stickers display cartoon-like elements, like ice cream cones, stars, and quirky characters, alongside symbols like atoms and code brackets.

Here's a detailed list of the stickers present:

"Nevertheless She Coded"
A skeleton dino saying "Roar"
"I ANXIETY JS"
"Self Care First"
"ANTI JAVASCRIPT JAVASCRIPT CLUB"
"I <3 CSS"
"I <3 a11y"
"VANILLA JS" partly hidden with a meaty skull-like cartoon ice cream cone
"No fox given"
"WEBSITES"
"State of the Browser"
"A Weird Wide Web"
"DevFest" on a folded paper boat
"I <3 Coding"
A laughing bell pepper
"CSS IS AWESOME"
Little yay.boo ghosts
"Stay Curious"
"Bill & Ted's Accessibility Adventure"
Pink cartoon omg.lol Prami hearts
"Accessibility WOKE Platoon"
"HARD WORK PAYS OFF"
A black Pirate Ship sticker
"Take HYPERTEXT TO HYPERSPACE"
Pink cartoon raccoon eating a cookie
"WEB PLATFORM"
A yellow ducky
"No link shaming"
"No DEPLOYS ON FRIDAYS"
A skull with a sword through it and flowers round it
Various abstract shapes and designs.

Mario is about to knock out an overturned koopa in the original Mario Bros, which was just three layers of blocks plus a few pipes where baddies or I guess fireballs came out.

Sara is posing in front of her wardrobe mirror, which is positioned carefully to avoid showing any of the slightly embarrassing piles of her clothes elsewhere in the bedroom.

She's leaning nonchalantly (having taken several tries to get to an acceptable level of nonchalance) against the rest of the wardrobe, wearing a pale pinky purple T shirt with the words "design for real humans" written in wavy capitals just above her right breast.

Screenshot from Answers.com:

Who said When America sneezes the world catches a cold?

Anonymous ∙ 9y ago
Updated: 3/28/2025

The phrase "When America sneezes, the world catches a cold" is attributed to former British Prime Minister Harry S. Truman. He used it to illustrate how economic or political changes in the United States can have significant global repercussions. The saying underscores the influence of the U.S. on the world stage, particularly in the context of economic and political events.

AnswerBot ∙ 5mo ago

I'm Not a Robot game at neal.fun:

Level 42: Reverse Turing
Engage in a Conversation

Human Confidence Level: 95%

The end of a conversation is seen:

Not today! Cards Vs tables

A classic Ul debate! Which side are you on, or did you manage to steer the conversation towards a more nuanced discussion?

Cards are more fun - but we're also trying to refine with incomplete information

You are human.

A screenshot of an email, subject:
Re: David shared your website with me and I loved it, Sara Joy

Email content:
Why are you emailing me again with this, when I asked to be removed from this list?

I also need to know how you found this particular email address, as I rarely use it publicly, and is not on my website, which you apparently visited.

Under GDPR I have the right to be forgotten. Please forget me.

The email is in reply to:
On Sat, 13 Sep 2025, at 09:55, Allen (Strikingly Affiliate) wrote:

Hello, Sara Joy!

We have a few affiliates who are in the same business as you. They also design websites for their clients. From what I've heard, they signed up for our affiliate program so they can send their links to people who can't afford their services. Honestly, I thought that was a win-win solution.

If this type of arrangement works for you, you can sign up today.

Cheers!
Allen Flores-Beltran

Screenshot of site on mobile browser to show the menu without the submenu.

Screenshot from YouTube. Scott is wearing a fetching lavender T shirt with the slogan "Design for real humans". He is pointing at himself. The captions read: "Who's this dickhead? What's the deal with the course? And why is piccalilli so hard to spell?"

A screenshot from google maps streetview, showing a parking sign near the Stockholm Natural History museum. It (very blurrily) shows payment options, two app-based, one SMS based if you happen to have a Swedish person-nummer. There's no hint about where to find a physical payment machine.

Sandi Toksvig looking very happy standing in the countryside in front of a river or canal, probably in autumn time. She's wearing a colourful and cosy looking scarf.

Two colourful splodges of slightly dusky pink, purple and turquoise paint, mirrored one on each piece of paper. On the splodges single-line drawings of two faces and a head-and-shoulders have been artfully drawn.

A DuckDuckGo search result page for "affinity bubble" where results include an LLM tool or tutorials for bubble effects in Affinity graphic design programs.

Page from Benjamin Dickson's Chamberlain comic book:

The American Ambassador Kennedy, the Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain are in an office together.

Text:

10 Downing Street, March 19th 1939

Kennedy: That was some speech you made, Prime Minister. What made you change your tune?

Chamberlain: Having a moment to think.

Kennedy: Hmm
Y'know, I heard a rumour yesterday, from the viscount in the corner. You're considering giving guarantees to Poland.

Chamberlain: We're considering it.

Kennedy: If I didn't know better, I'd say you're looking to start a fight.
How do you think it looks when the only politician in Britain who wants peace is Oswald Mosely?

The praying hands emoji (often used for sincere thank yous) offset from the centre with a simple circular emoji face behind, where only one wide open, possibly slightly crazed, eye is seen to the side of the hands.

In my interpretation, the effect is a sort of terrified thank you!

A still from The Girl From Tomorrow, an Australian young people's TV show from the 90s.

In the picture we see Alana and Jenny standing in front of the Time Capsule.

It has a long description in Wikipedia, the first part follows:

The Time Capsule is a time exploration vehicle. It was invented by a scientist named Bruno in the year 3000. The Capsule is exactly 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) in height and width. Its composition in the series is unspecified, but as a real prop, it is a dark green steel frame model of a Rhombicuboctahedron plated with semidiagonal steel bars and plated with semitransparent plexiglas from the inside, except on the front side which is completely transparent.

More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_from_Tomorrow#The_Time_Capsule

An old Compaq Armada "notebook". Beige boxy thing. Also on the desk is a TFT screen, a Shuttle PC case (arguably also portable - but it was too small, and too hot, I went back to Lian-Li shortly after), a huge curvy keyboard and a Sony mini hifi. It's all so very 20-years-ago!

A very small image which says CSS JOY in purple letters and has a background trying to mimic the CSS art pattern I made for my website and also use on the webring's home page.