I'm helping my uncle make a basic coat he can use while doing astronomy for his local club. It's really just a boxy coat with no tailoring but we'll see how fancy we make it.

I've never worked with prints before and we both didn't think about how annoying it would be to align everything, but I think I managed a decent enough job that no-one in the dark is going to notice anything amiss! ⭐🔭

This print is amazing though so I am excited to see how it turns out. 🤞

#sewing #astronomy

#flowers / #plants 🤜🤛 #frogs

#photography #pictures #garden

@dumpsterqueer I was wondering if you (or anyone else) had any favorite emoji (or collections) on their instance?

I'd love to see some starter packs or common-ish emoji that I can use with GoToSocial and the remote emoji import tool.

Everyone is welcome to reply with personal favs if you'd like and then people can copy the link to the status and import. :meowBox:

https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/settings/#remote

@ryanc I'm working on the technical/engineering side of my dorky blog and wanted to commit a small part to your mem[eo]ry.

Thanks for nc rya.nc 1987!

https://auengun.net/asciinema-player-embed-test/

@cate I loved your book "The Engineering Leader". I was wondering if you had any blog posts or other places I could point teams towards on your very own "Huston's Pyramid of Team Functioning"? 🦝 🦝 🦝 🦝

I loved the way you packaged a lot of my own internal gut-checks/heuristics and wanted to share with a colleague!

Several large studies of "microinclusions," small actions which demonstrate a commitment to shared
belonging, and a recognition of another person’s technical and social contribution, have found that experiencing
microinclusions increases anticipated role fit over and above simply socially warm gestures (Muragishi et al., 2023).

• Cat Hicks @grimalkina

From this paper "Psychological Affordances Can Provide a Missing Explanatory Layer for Why Interventions to Improve Developer Experience Take Hold or Fail" by Cat Hicks really really stuck out to me. Keep rereading bits and pieces of it as it connects to my career in coaching and professional development of technical teams & orgs.

It's a very strong reaffirmation on the way I typically coach and interact in my technical and social spaces has some amount of pre-existing research and thought. My anecdotal evidence is that people always responded warmly to my interactions with time, but it was just anecdotal. My ability to lead with courage and build those true feelings of shared belonging & recognition for abilities & talents.