sylvia

@svillegas

Web dev 👩‍💻, UX 🖥, accessibility ♿️, animals 🐙, plants 🪴, outdoors 🏕, and general nerdery 🤓. (she/her)

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sylvia@svillegas· 2d

Après paddle

Billie is lying on her yellow bed atop a picknic table. Behind her, our two PFDs hang to dry.

sylvia@svillegas· 2d

Yesterday was good 😊

POV: Sitting on my paddle board, legs out in front of me. On the nose just beyond my feet sits Billie, a tan lab mix, in a yellow Ruffwear PFD. She looks out onto the open lake ahead of us both, on a gorgeous, sunny summer day.

sylvia@svillegas· 12d

She loves that thing and will volunteer to stand on it any time I pull it out, even when we have other "work" to do. The best girls 🥰 🤎💛

A bay horse on a longe line stands facing the camera with front feet on a small wooden platform in an indoor arena. She appears to be spotlit by an overhead light. Behind her, next to the wall, lies a tan lab mix.

sylvia@svillegas· 24d

She earned her lunch snacks 😁

Lab mix sits and looks up at the open ordering counter of a food truck with pictures of hot dogs and fries on the side.

sylvia@svillegas· 24d

Billie is now officially a kayak dog 😊

POV behind a lab mix in a yellow PFD sitting in the front of the kayak looking out into the open lake ahead.

POV behind a lab mix in a yellow PFD sitting in the front of the kayak looking toward shore in an inlet.

sylvia@svillegas· 28d

Spooky

View from a tree-lined sidewalk looking up at a glowing orange sun filtered through a smokey grey-yellow sky.

sylvia@svillegas· Jul 7

Dress code?

I'm at the office wearing a Colombian national team soccer jersey

sylvia@svillegas· Jun 23

The nails 💅

My two hands on a table. Index and middle fingers are yellow, ring fingers are blue, and pinkies are red. Thumbs are full Colombia flags.

sylvia@svillegas· May 27

Sorry about the quality, I took "screenshot" literally 😁

Photo of the browser open to PJ's blog post, showing the text and image overlap.

sylvia@svillegas· Mar 23

Awww, memories of Mammalogy study on ADW. 🥰

A two-page spread of my mammalogy sketchbook/notebook. Order names act as headings in blue marker, breaking up the pages; under each are some notes in black pen and some annotated pencil sketches of skulls.

A closer photo of the section labeled "O. Lagomorpha". Notes include "rootless first incisor, chisel-like" and "2nd incisor peg-like, behind 1st". A lateral sketch of a Lepus americanus rostrum points out these details.

sylvia@svillegas· Nov 14

Design systems, apps, and services need to account for empty states. This is the second bad example I've encountered in an hour. Like anything else in life: if you don't have anything useful for me, keep your mouth* shut! [*UI]

A shopping cart drawer showing 1 items [sic]. Below the selected product is a carousel titled 'You May Also Like' showing a default item called 'Example Product Title' with a placeholder image. Oddly, it's priced at $19.99.

sylvia@svillegas· Nov 10

Oh, hey, Winter 👋

A wintery scene on a forest trail, where everything is blanketed in fluffy snow, including every branch of the trees overhanging the trail. Billie, a tan lab mix, wearing a teal and black Chilly Dogs winter coat, stands sideways on the trail waiting for me to catch up.

In another section of the forest, Billie is now frolicking away forward down the trail, tail high and ears flapping.

sylvia@svillegas· Nov 9

Made with the Mamdani campaign poster generator: "How to cook for forty humans"

sylvia@svillegas· Nov 2

The burden of my mental health will now rest upon this fellow I thrifted yesterday and his contents---propagated from a leaf I picked up off the Home Depot floor in the spring---because whimsy.

A lime green ceramic planter in the shape of a hedgehog. From the hole in his back rise a tiny cluster of about a dozen little elongated green-to-brown leaves of a succulent I've yet to identify.

sylvia@svillegas· Nov 2

Moving slowly and with a heavy heart today. Basking in the warm sun and calling this a transition day.

The sun shines through the mostly denuded branches of a bunch of birch trees, towering over the leaf-blanketed forest floor. It is a beautiful autumn day and the warm glow is healing.

sylvia@svillegas· Oct 30

So I'm just here basting this replacement hoodie zipper into place thinking this is just like wireframing: a low-fidelity version of the final which seems like more effort than it's worth, but ensures proper alignment and pays off with more speed and a better product later.

On a craft table lies a grey hoodie with a white zipper partly basted into place with long red stitches.

sylvia@svillegas· Oct 30

Here to party and axolotl questions.

Billie, a tan lab mix, wears a fetching baby pink turtleneck hiked up to cover her ears. From her collar, three bands with little frills of red yarn radiate from either side of her neck. She smiles knowing she is the cutest canine axolotl.

sylvia@svillegas· Oct 29

Um, no. 1. I'm on a phone, not clicking 2. It's below, not on the right 3. The disclosure trigger is a block-level element, so there's a whole bunch of unmarked clickable area. 4. Why the disclosure pattern, anyway? I'm on this page to view Women's Fashion Apparel (per page title and heading)

Screenshot of MLB site with the heading "Women's Fashion Apparel" on a mobile/narrow screen. The text below says "Click the + sign on the right to view Women's Fashion Apparel". Below that is a bold "+" sign and then a stack of block-styled links.

sylvia@svillegas· Oct 28

Above skeet brought to you by Reinhart's Red Apple Cider, from Stayner, ON: Semi-dry, starts very round & open, middle, red with wide yellow shoulders (idk!?), short breath. Flattens rather quickly. 🫠

My hand holding a can of Reinhart's Red Apple Cider. Can is black with decorative gold tree-like shapes with gold leaves and red circles.

sylvia@svillegas· Oct 28

Also, check out the size of this fabulous gentleman I encountered:

A large shelf fungus on the side of a tree, as I saw it from below (it was just above me)

A more elevated view of the same fungus, with my hand near it for scale: it's about three times as wide as my hand and maybe the same depth? Hard to tell exactly, but it was big!

sylvia@svillegas· Oct 27

It's been disappointing to discover that so many adults could not recognize what a fine specimen she was at either of her Halloween parties this weekend! [Nor did they know what I was talking about when I told them.] I bet kids who see her Friday night will know. They get the whimsy of nature.