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my gender it's... shiny chansey. im sorry im just a screaming slightly melodic dark smiley face on a big green blob doing its best to help but otherwise probably useless. that's just me.

Feeling like publishing an npm package for a custom React hook to set up IntersectionObserver on arbitrary nodes. I'd be cribbing the implementation from a Medium article but the unit testing could be fun.

Google might be a soulless corporation with individual employees capable of locking me out of every part of my phone if they think it necessary, but it's nice that the first time I tried it on Gboard, it knew that after the second consecutive "alright," the correct prediction is "alright" regardless of how many times it's repeated

I keep my Facebook profile read only to the public because anything else is a farce, so if you see me talking out of my ass about cryptography there, feel free to correct me about it here. My goal is to explain basic concepts for the typical end user but neither am I a bona fide expert, so anything I write is bound to be inaccurate because of flaws in my understanding as well as inaccurate because of my intended audience

I've embraced being the technological doomsayer for my Facebook friends and now I'm going to scream at them about how cryptography works so maybe my tiny part of the world will have a better understanding of how fucked our dystopia is

/me notices xer one-time code for 2FA is 123406

Alright. The universe is clearly mocking me

Silicon Valley desperately needs to unionize. Not to protect the rights of engineers, but to protect the rights of the entire human race

Ugh, if I see one more article about how some random enterprise switched to Go, I'll puke

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, except magic replaced with computer science

I'm Serra. I like to program and read research, despite being bad at both. My attempts at Mastodon so far in the past were trying to be like popular, cute, funny trans people, and well, I'm really only one of those. I don't particularly agree with some of the political choices of qoto.org, but I've decided to just fucking mellow out about my politics, and I'm definitely drawn to the overall purpose of the instance. Pronouns I accept are at allgood.link/pronoun_preferences, and if you wanna make my smile, feel free to mix and match.

Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time. hi.r8h.pw/RGX9Gx

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