danielle

intrusive thoughts (“hmm maybe I should move back to the UK”-edition)

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

Because apparently this needs to be said: if you’re part of a coordinated disclosure process the appropriate thing to do is to talk to the rest of the group before you make unilateral decisions because the process is *coordinated*. It’s right there in the name Don’t agree to that? Don’t be in one

Slowly getting back on the torch and I missed it so much

#Berlin folks! I (and some friends) are going to be doing live glassblowing demos at Glass Connection (Alt-Moabit 19) on Saturday as part of Lange Nacht der Manufakturen. My demo is 18:00-19:00, but there's going to be things going on until 10PM and I'd love if some friendly faces stopped by!

I did a neon!

Making really dumb shit

I fucking love blowing glass

👀👀👀

I finally gave Gleam a try and it's nice, and I like BEAM... but oh god whenever I write anything that isn't Go... the thought of doing things like "deploying it somewhere" makes me sad.

Yeah there’s no emotional morale boost quite like re-dying my hair even after absolutely suffering through physio

The number of times I’ve looked down and gone “oh yeah, I got a tattoo now” in the last 18h is funny because I am apparently a goldfish when it comes to things on my own body.

3 am dye jobs are never the best dye jobs but damn I missed having fun hair

in lieu of having hair that is bangs-compatible... what colour do I dye my hair this week? 🥲

I am forcing myself to Go Out and Do Things which is good for my dumb brain but in Berlin this means coming home with hair that reeks of smoke and this makes me sad when I get home 😭

Sculpting really doesn’t come naturally to me, but I’m having a great time making silly weird cartoon animals to distract from ✨ life ✨

Soo uhh... Berlin friends... I need to drag myself outside more for things that aren't just glass... but I'm also too self conscious at the moment to pester people into hanging out... if anyone wants to catch up/hang out... it would be appreciated 😅 (would also happily take reccs for fun events)

Just tried riding a bike for the first time since I broke my shoulder and… it was very short but… my arm felt ok… But my whole body turned to jelly as if it was my first time riding a bike… definitely some 🧠 🐛 to fight…

“You have the tightest muscles I’ve ever felt” is truly a thing to hear from someone who has been a massage therapist for >20 years

I made a glass fish and he is a fancy French boy

Today I made a red panda head.

My new hotshop hand torch arrived and I am so excited to hook this up and make some things 😅

www.usenix.org/system/files... Prequal seems like a (hard to do well) but really interesting approach to load balancing if your requests aren't super cheap - esp interested in the tail latency impact 👀

If my shoulder could remember how to externally rotate that would be very good plz because now my physio has me trying to force it and that isn't going great either

I can’t believe I’m linking to HBR, but if you manage (or have any leadership stake) in a larger team, you should read this. Knowledge, process, and quality delay is happening in more places than one might expect, and generally accelerating rather than being managed. hbr.org/2026/06/dont...

I’m still far from fully healed, but pushing myself to try new things and to get myself back to “normal”. I tried solid sculpting of glass for the first time and made my broken shoulder (it’s life sized!) based on the CT images. Need to give it a second try to refine it, but super happy with it

In good PT news I can actually raise my arm to 90 ish degrees unassisted outwards and forwards now In bad PT news doing so 15 times leaves me as out of breath as moving a 50kg box of raw glass does usually 🥲

Every time I add operational support code to a Rust codebase I'm forced to write far more brittle code than I'd expect if I want the code to be idiomatic :( partially because of how much relies on side-effects on Clone and other things that then make the borrow checker more enemy than friend :/

MY BONE IS FULLY HEALED!!! Now to focus on the muscles 😅

Dear bicep pls relax thx you are the last thing that seriously hurts and you’re making it hard to do PT 😭

Physio today was the “do the thing until it fails” kind of physio and I learnt new ways that muscles can hurt but the fact that I learnt them in the process of “lifting my arm” is scary actually. OTOH more progress which is good?

recovering from a broken shoulder is the most mentally exhausting thing i've ever done and the worst part is that even when things are "getting better" it still feels like you're _so_ far away from "better" :(

I've been using a computer for (1) day and already started writing a database i am sorry

Using a computer with two hands for the first time in a month and wow my hands forgot how to type this feels so weird