Callie (horse boy)

@calli

Senior front end engineer. #ActuallyAutistic and I complain about video games a lot. Opinions and shitposts are from my cat. ex msft, AWS Games, Wowhead. Adopted, mixed race parentage but white af Ace/demi, nonbinary/genderfuck, married, masking

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Callie (horse boy)@calli· 7d

17 - dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey. This one I took a bit longer than a day and a half on.. but excited to read The White Dragon again as it was the first chapter book I read as a kid that wasn’t Narnia. Definitely can see McCaffreys growth as a writer in this one, too

Cover of a print of the Dragonriders of Pern trilogy by Anne McCaffrey

Callie (horse boy)@calli· 14d

16 - and a reread from childhood though I don’t think I finished it. I picked up a combined print of Dragonriders of Pern back at a book store in WA.. couldn’t put down Dragonflight. On to Dragonquest! Also damn a lot of things in this series did not age well but were still prog at time of writing

Cover of a print of the three books comprising Dragonriders of Pern trilogy

Callie (horse boy)@calli· 16d

15 - Asimov May/June 2025. It took me a month to read this because my god I have been going to bed too late. But I did finish it! I feel like this one was a bit weaker than some other periodicals I read, but still had a few stories that stood out, like the one with Turing

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Jul 7

14 - Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove THIS BOOK IS UNHINGED AF AND I LOVED IT AND I CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT TRULY RABID FOR IT PLEASE GO READ IT IT HAS VAMPIRES AND SPACE AND WERWWOLVES AND ALIENS

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Jul 6

Reddit surfaced this ad to me and I legit thought it was going to be an FFLogs or WVLogs shitpost. I was very disappointed.

An ad with a very colorful bar chart with 3 bars much larger than the rest

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Jun 29

13 - the book of elsewhere by Leanu Reeves and China Mieville. Admittedly I nearly DNF’d this because I don’t like the main female character. She’s written very weak. But I may reread it; it had a surprising amount of depth and things that were easily missed

The cover of the Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Mieville

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Jun 27

I would truly die for this creature If she could talk she would also order my death simply because she would think it’s funny af and then be mad when I don’t feed her dinner and she has to eat my eyeballs herself

A red and black tortie car looks half awake while curled up on a couch

A red and black tortie cat with green eyes looks up at the camera

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Jun 23

He loves Ball and would do anything for Ball (I have a tennis ball in my hand)

Big black dog sits and stares towards the camera

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Jun 22

Lelaine “beans” “Fuzzball” sedai is immediately stoked that I’m home

A white cat rubbing her face on my laptop keyboard as she tries to snuggle me as hard as she can

She has passed out, max snuggle achieved

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Jun 22

A nice thing about having an office to go to is I have an excuse to put some effort into my look

Selfie of a white thembo wearing a grey blue shirt and in makeup. Their eyeshadow is grey with some hint of blue and they are wearing a red lippie

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Jun 20

Yeah so a while back (like years ago) I ordered a box of cider because I was going through a phase. Anyway it turned out to be an entire carton. How did I not notice? That’s not important. What’s important is I have not had to buy a box of cider since.

A moving box with some mishmash of different things. To note is the fact a quarter of the box are boxes of Alpine Apple Cider.

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Jun 19

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet(s) Definitely a toss up between these two.

A cat flat on her back with all four paws in the air and a tuft of another cats fur on her paws. She has definitely been caught doing crime

A close up of a black dog with a brown nose that is very blurry as he whips his head around and looks very excitedly surprised

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Jun 9

12 - Analog May/June 2025. Took me a bit because of moving but just as delightful as ever. That last story.. yeah that one is going to stay with me a while.

The cover of Analog magazine May/June 2025 edition. It looks like a post apocalypse ruins

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Jun 6

These slippers make me happy

Fuzzy slippers that are shaped like brown cats with heart noses

Callie (horse boy)@calli· May 23

11 - A Parade of Horribles, book 8 of DCC by Matt Dinniman You mean I gotta wait for at least a year now with THAT cliffhanger? This guy better not go GRRM on us! I’m going to need a minute. What a ride.

The cover of A Parade of Horribles minus the dust jacket. It’s a purple book with gold letters that say “UNITY SUPPORT FAMILY AND KNEECAPPING BITCHES “

Callie (horse boy)@calli· May 22

i opened the sims 4 up for the first time in yeeeears, said yes to something on the phone, and now my poor sim has like 5 people in their house for a week they're an introvert so uh LOL

screenshot from The Sims 4 in which a tiny single-bedroom flat has uh, a few random beds added and like 6 or 7 sims trying to fit

Callie (horse boy)@calli· May 20

THIS IS THE FACE OF A HORSE WHO DESERVES BETTER

George the horse. He’s a draft cross so he’s a big boy, red roan with a dark mane and a big blaze on his kind face

Callie (horse boy)@calli· May 20

Holy crap I’m not alone - this is just some of the BS I’ve dealt with Thank you @collinsworth.dev for such a well written post. It really put this year’s struggles into perspective and let me know I’m not crazy or out of touch. joshcollinsworth.com/blog/tailwin...

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Some backstory

There was a time in my career when I, along with the rest of the frontend engineers I worked with, were forced to write absolutely everything in Tailwind. There literally wasn’t a stylesheet to even put CSS into; it was forbidden. We couldn’t even edit the Tailwind config file for most of the time I was there. The powers at that company decided that was the best way to keep us all consistent. If it wasn’t Tailwind, it didn’t ship.

(Everybody I’ve told this to finds it bafflingly ridiculous. Even the most ardent Tailwind fans cite the ability to simply break out of it and write CSS any time as a necessary and beneficial feature. Nonetheless, it was our reality.)

Highlighted: To the powers in that company, Tailwind was the be-all, end-all solution. In their minds, anybody who didn’t like the arrangement didn’t understand, didn’t know what they were doing, or were just griping about being forced to learn a new approach

Callie (horse boy)@calli· May 19

I've been telling Panda that she gets to vote next year

a tortie cat looking up like she's surprised at the camera

Callie (horse boy)@calli· May 14

But anyway here’s my cat taking her medication (It’s a much larger serving than intended because we are still figuring out how much to water her meds down with the Mac and cheese, and once the medicated Mac is gone she’s only getting the sauce)

Callie (horse boy)@calli· May 9

There are crimes in purrogress happening

A fluffy white cat sits in the floor and stares up at her sister, a fluffy brown cat that is on the washing machine in the laundry closet. They are about to bap at each other.

Callie (horse boy)@calli· May 9

10 - Hood by Stephen R Lawhead Lawhead is a favorite author of mine from my teen years, and has always really stroked the coals of my intense special interest in Welsh/Gaelic history. Hood reimagined in Wales was a wonderful adventure - I’m not sure why I couldn’t get into it originally :)

Callie (horse boy)@calli· May 6

They’re beauty They’re grace He loves it when I smush his face

A black Doberman smushing his nose into my hand

Callie (horse boy)@calli· May 5

Moving this one specific time is exceedingly stressful actually

FFXIV carbuncle lamp with an already excessive amount of bubble wrap around it

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Apr 29

I’m not vain about my car at all #brz

My red BRZ but actually it’s silver! Because it’s a red BRZ under a silver car cover

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Apr 22

9 - Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle Another beautiful queer horror story. @chucktingle.bsky.social never disappoints and just in time for his new book too! Also I technically finished this on Sunday, but forgot to update the thread. Left it with my mom after coming out as bisexual

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Apr 21

This some bullshirt

Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters is closed for refurbishment

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Apr 21

Well we now know the direction Jack leans

A Jack Skellington pen with a very obvious leftward lean

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Apr 21

Well we landed in SNA Annnd my new luggage apparently suffered badly wtf?? I just got it on Friday

Metal suitcase with a massive dent in it

Callie (horse boy)@calli· Apr 17

8 - This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman I’m so mad I have to wait almost a month for more Carl. Yes I could just pay for the Patreon but it’s not the *same* And how does this series just continue to get better like this??