leigh's recent activity
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Comment on Mermaids writes an open letter to JK Rowling in ~lgbt
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Comment on What's the current state-of-the-art in Python package creation/distribution? in ~comp
leigh LinkIf you want to build something you can put on PyPI and have people install with pip install yourpackage, Poetry is rapidly gaining popularity and is really lovely to work with. It's also useful...If you want to build something you can put on PyPI and have people install with
pip install yourpackage, Poetry is rapidly gaining popularity and is really lovely to work with. It's also useful for things where you're making an end product that gets packaged in a Dockerfile, because it uses lock files. -
Comment on What's something you have always wanted to know about being LGBT (but were maybe afraid to ask)? in ~lgbt
leigh Link ParentThis is a pet peeve of mine as well. Labels are great when you use them to describe and talk about yourself and find people that share your experience. There seems to be a contingent that forget...there's a segment of the community that cares about labels
This is a pet peeve of mine as well. Labels are great when you use them to describe and talk about yourself and find people that share your experience. There seems to be a contingent that forget that life does not naturally sort itself out precisely into neat little boxes with labels on, and focus so much on policing and gatekeeping the ways other people use labels. It's a focus on trying to produce a precise taxonomy of queerness, which for some people overshadows the community and solidarity aspects, and that bothers me.
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Comment on The number of teenagers registered as girls at birth who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria has increased by almost 1,500 percent in ten years in Sweden in ~lgbt
leigh Link ParentThe advice that's often given (including by mental health authorities) is that support and acceptance from family and friends, and acceptance and use of a trans person's name and pronouns, are...The advice that's often given (including by mental health authorities) is that support and acceptance from family and friends, and acceptance and use of a trans person's name and pronouns, are protective factors against depression and suicide.
If there's primary research supporting that correlation (I assume there is, but it's midnight here and I have work tomorrow so I'm resisting the urge to go find it), that'd lend strong support for your way of looking at it.
Anecdotally, a lot of the depression and anxiety that's connected to transness for me personally is around acceptance, either directly or indirectly. (I was going to share specific examples but I won't, because unlike transness, depression and anxiety probably do have an element of social contagion to them.)
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Comment on Creating a safer internet with .gay in ~lgbt
leigh LinkAs someone who is LGBTQ but isn't gay, I'm mildly annoyed about equating the two and 🤷♀️ about the whole thing otherwise.- Exemplary
As someone who is LGBTQ but isn't gay, I'm mildly annoyed about equating the two and 🤷♀️ about the whole thing otherwise.
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Comment on Any bike commuters here? in ~transport
leigh Link🙋♀️ That said, my commute is about 1km, almost exclusively on a shared bicycle/pedestrian path, so I can't offer much in the way of advice on longer commutes. I used to ride a Lekker Amsterdam...🙋♀️
That said, my commute is about 1km, almost exclusively on a shared bicycle/pedestrian path, so I can't offer much in the way of advice on longer commutes. I used to ride a Lekker Amsterdam Elite NuVinci which was an absolute joy, but that got stolen so now I'm on a cheapie 😭.
My #1 tip is probably this: You need to top up the air in your tyres way more often than you think.
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Comment on The new name of this group is ... in ~lgbt
leigh Link ParentI'm new to Tildes and wasn't around for this, but I'd be interested to see what the result would have been if Instant Runoff Voting had been used (which is the actual vote counting method used in...I'm new to Tildes and wasn't around for this, but I'd be interested to see what the result would have been if Instant Runoff Voting had been used (which is the actual vote counting method used in Australian single-winner races such as the House of Representatives and state Legislative Councils).
Sadly, I don't know of any online services that'll easily let you run an IRV vote, but the counting method is simple enough that it could be easily scripted with a CSV export from something like SurveyMonkey, provided the form was set up so that people couldn't give two candidates an equal preference.
(edit: to be clear, I'm not trying to argue the result here, just being a voting nerd!)
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~comp
leigh Link ParentThe thing that really made TypeScript a must-have for me was working on a relatively large application using Redux. Redux has a lot of things in a lot of different files that have to match, and my...The thing that really made TypeScript a must-have for me was working on a relatively large application using Redux. Redux has a lot of things in a lot of different files that have to match, and my working memory isn't amazing. Being able to have my autocomplete tell me what properties my action creator function was expecting in its object literal arguments or whatever, and getting red squigglies in my editor when I get it wrong rather than runtime errors, made life with Redux so much easier.
Obviously, that's the exact opposite of what I was talking about earlier in the thread, but it's still useful in vanilla JS projects, because I'm directly touching the browser APIs a lot more (and often ones I'm not familiar with), and TS ships with signatures for those which are handy for similar reasons.
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Comment on How technology (yes, technology!) can help you de-stress | No Sweat Tech in ~health
leigh LinkAnother great one for background noise is myNoise (and its accompanying Android app). I generally use its various noise generators but it also has some pretty decent recordings as well.Another great one for background noise is myNoise (and its accompanying Android app). I generally use its various noise generators but it also has some pretty decent recordings as well.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~talk
leigh LinkI don't recall where I came across Tildes; probably either Hacker News (where I almost never enter the comments, because they're exhausting), Lobste.rs (where I don't have an account) or Twitter....I don't recall where I came across Tildes; probably either Hacker News (where I almost never enter the comments, because they're exhausting), Lobste.rs (where I don't have an account) or Twitter. The fact that the UI is small and fast and snappy appealed to me, and the community didn't seem toxic yet, so I thought I'd join in and see how long that lasts.
My username is my real first name. That name was originally my middle name; my parents gave me a first name that literally translates to "man", and a middle name that they mistakenly thought was the more-commonly-masculine spelling (which is actually "Lee"). Since I turned out to not be a man after all, it worked out well in the end anyway. I'd considered others, but Leigh felt like it was already me, and while it's not the coolest name out there (you can almost always tell when someone is transgender, because we generally have way cooler names than cis folks) I didn't find anything else that fit.
I honestly don't have a good answer for the last one. My interests in things like tech and games are generally slightly different to what typically gets posted in generalist spaces on those topics, but I'm not sure how to draw a line around it and give it a name.
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Comment on Should there be a way to turn off replies for a comment? in ~tildes
leigh Link ParentAdding an (optional?) indicator to posts when the poster mutes notifications for them is another alternative that'd accomplish that.an indicator that you've stopped listening.
Adding an (optional?) indicator to posts when the poster mutes notifications for them is another alternative that'd accomplish that.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~comp
leigh Link ParentThis! I do a lot of React stuff at work, and so whenever I get the chance to build stuff with not much more than just what's built into the browser I absolutely love it. (I tend to still use...This! I do a lot of React stuff at work, and so whenever I get the chance to build stuff with not much more than just what's built into the browser I absolutely love it. (I tend to still use TypeScript and Bundler, because I like those tools, but I try to avoid shipping too much third party stuff over the wire.)
It's such a joy to learn about the capabilities of the modern Web in the process, and it's so satisfying seeing something cool you've made and knowing that it's only a few kilobytes. Especially given that I started learning about the Web as a teen not long after Eevee did, in the IE6 era, and the capabilities built into browsers now are beyond our wildest dreams back then.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
leigh Link ParentThis comes close to one of my objections with lots of conversations about civility: it always seems to wander towards a false equivalence between civility and morality, and a focus on tone over...I don't know that I agree with the sentiment of this statement. Obviously silencing everyone who disagrees with you is not a good thing, but the poster really appears to be saying that it was wrong to deplatform people spewing hate speech. (That's not nearly the same thing as silencing everyone who disagrees with you. This kind of hyperbole is also a part of the problem.)
This comes close to one of my objections with lots of conversations about civility: it always seems to wander towards a false equivalence between civility and morality, and a focus on tone over content. An anti-fascist could shout "fuck off, Nazi scum!", while a neo-Nazi calmly and dispassionately explains to her why he believes that she and people like her should be put to death. Neither is likely to convince the other. Both are saying things that are offensive and hurtful to the other. One, however, is being more civil than the other, and it's certainly not the one whose platform I'd consider moral.
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Comment on What's something you're comfortable telling people on the internet that you wouldn't share with people you know in real life? in ~talk
leigh LinkI'm far more open online about many things (chiefly my gender identity, as a transfeminine non-binary person, mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, and neurodiversity stuff like...I'm far more open online about many things (chiefly my gender identity, as a transfeminine non-binary person, mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, and neurodiversity stuff like ADHD) than I am in person, even though my online identity is my real name.
I'm not sure why, but I think it's audience: even though in theory my coworkers could find my Twitter they won't, whereas my Twitter followers are mostly a combination of Internet randos and folks from the PyCon AU and Linux.conf.au communities, who are generally pretty respectful around those sort of things and open about it themselves.
For what it's worth, I think that might be at least partly a UK-specific phenomenon. Most people I know who see themselves as "feminist" very much include trans women in their feminism. Most of the anti-trans rhetoric I see in Australia, as well as online from places like the US, seems to come more from the right, particularly the religious right, rather than TERFs specifically.