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Corruptress of protocols; trust & safety tech; open-source contributor; Independent Contractor; Chronic Illness You've probably used tech I've contributed to. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇩🇪 I'm on the Fediverse: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem (this account is bridged too!)

Emelia’s Ramblings
Emelia’s RamblingsAug 14, 2026
The Internet was never real
It's always been a curated version of the human experience, something designed to sell a certain vision or impression, for one's own benefit.
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generative aiThe internet
TIL Tech
TIL TechAug 10, 2026
TIL: Ignoring other people's gits
One of the tricks that I've learned over the years is that if you're working in someone else's repo, git can be kind of annoying. Not in a bad way, but in a way where, for instance, maybe you want to keep a notes file so that you can keep track of your notes within the repo without having to pester or bother the maintainers of the repo to add your notes.md file to their .gitignore. Well, it turns out that there's a solution for that, and it's pretty damn simple: That's the setup.
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git
TIL Tech
TIL TechJul 20, 2026
TYL: npx setup-trusted-publishing
That's Today You Learnt instead of Today I Learned, enjoy!
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node.jsnpm
TIL Tech
TIL TechJul 20, 2026
TIL: Docker build target
neat docker trick I just learned: will pull the image by default, but build to a specific target if --build is passed or docker compose build so you can use target to stop at different places in one build context if you have like a web container, a queue container, etc.
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docker
Emelia’s Ramblings
Emelia’s RamblingsJul 17, 2026
On the need for speed
Today's society tends to expect everything on their own timeline, ignorant of what other's timelines may look like.
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depression
Emelia’s Ramblings
Emelia’s RamblingsJun 17, 2026
Don't celebrate this
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depression
Emelia’s Ramblings
Emelia’s RamblingsJun 16, 2026
On being believed
A short piece I wrote a while back on MCAS and the medical system failing you.
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depression
Emelia’s Ramblings
Emelia’s RamblingsMar 30, 2026
On being valued
What does it mean to be valued, have I found the right room?
mental healthwork
Emelia’s Ramblings
Emelia’s RamblingsMar 11, 2026
On being slow
Okay, that was a lot!
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depression
AT Protocol
AT ProtocolMar 9, 2026
Working to Decentralize FedCM
Bluesky Social PBC have given a grant to Emelia Smith, an Invited Expert with the FedID Working Group, to work on FedCM with the goal of making FedCM really work for the decentralized web.
Decentralizing FedCM
Decentralizing FedCMMar 6, 2026
Working to Decentralize FedCM
Bluesky Social PBC have given a grant to Emelia Smith, an Invited Expert with the FedID Working Group, to work on FedCM with the goal of making FedCM really work for the decentralized web.
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fedcmdecentralized web
Emelia’s Ramblings
Emelia’s RamblingsFeb 14, 2026
Are you in the right room?
There's that question of "do people feel your absence in a room?" which can be a hard one to answer.
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depression