nicole @nicole@myna.social

Now that @pauline is back from Japan, we’re working our way through #Picard.

It’s pretty clumsy in a lot of ways, especially the first few episodes, where it’s a self-congratulatory good ‘ol boys roadtrip. The pair’s bitter musings over Beverly’s abandonment of Picard landed like the sexist trope it was, and disappointed me terribly.

But last night we we were both in near-tears with the 5th episode and the unexpected resolution of STTNG’s Ro Laren storyline.

🥺😭🥺😭

Looking back over the old code was a trip: there were areas that trigged the itch to go back and refine, revise, and refactor, but also broad swathes of really well-factored, well-structured, well-documented code that sung to me out over the years.

Just wrapped up a 4 hour pair programming session with @bass_rock: I helped him hot-wire an Objective-C library I wrote in 2018 to run in our new Swift codebase.

It was exhausting (I could barely form coherent sentences by the end), but also the most fun I’ve had with anything programming related in years.

Very few of my iOS contributions at Mozilla/Pocket ever made it into users’ hands; I’m proud that one of the few things that did was worth fighting for to preserve a little bit longer.

I spent February sleeping off my FFS, and I’ve been glued to my desk all month trying to help my iOS engineers put their best feet forward.

Today, I brought some of my favorite colors to work with me.

Cameras lie. If I have a studio light and time, I can usually coax mine to lie in my favor. Of course, the splotchy-faced, blue-bearded selfie I sent out to close friends this morning is enough to make me doubt myself when I say that. Doubt. I’ll have mine with cookies, please.

Anyway, here’s a good lie my camera told me earlier this week.

💁‍♀️📷

That said, … 🤔… the perk to the dress is how uncomfortable it will prolly make all the cishet dudes at this thing. That appeals to my inner gremlin; I sometimes love making people uncomfortable.

#passiveaggresivepartygoer #lifeisperformanceart

I ordered a custom-sized Star Wars costume for a birthday party thing next in LA next Thursday, but I’m starting to doubt it will arrive on time, so I ordered a backup.

I’ll wear it if I have to, but I’d much prefer something I can stack layers under: the venue’s lake adjacent; it’s going to be cold

Plus, even with tights, that’s going to be a very short hemline on 6,1” me. Like, _mini_.

Last night, @pauline and I got together for the first time since October, when we had shared a bottle of wine in anticipation of our forthcoming FFS operations.

Four months without seeing my transition sister was really, really hard. I basically vomited non sequiter snippets of all of the conversations I’d been saving for her in one slurry, blurry run-on sentence.

Also, there was this wonderfully hideous cocktail with Fernet and banana liqueur.