Empathy is understanding someone else’s context and working to understand how that context affects their emotions and decisions.

This is especially true when decisions are made you strongly don’t agree with.

See also: The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error.

I’ve been doing a lot of moderation recently and something important keeps coming up that I thought I’d share:

Empathy isn’t “putting yourself in someone else’s shoes”, which I see materialize as “what would I do in their situation”.

RT @AshleeMPreston: Just to be clear; ALL politics are “identity politics.” The debate just so happens to be over which identities are dese…

RT @funkwit: Absolutely barbaric. Can’t believe they did this.

He was my favourite ninja turtle.

@lewisnyman Horizon Zero Dawn

RT @tabatkins: Seriously, fuck our executives for doing this. Pinboard/1223492424133226497

RT @dinodaizovi: This project is a great example of how Sybil attacks can be performed using large numbers of real devices. No reverse engi…

And here it is! Enjoy!

(Vegan) Split Pea Soup!

snugug.com/cookbook/split-pea-soup

Yes recipe going up on my blog tonight (hopefully)

I… I think I’ve just made an excellent vegan split pea soup. I’m very happy with this. Vegan and vegetarian cooking suits me.

Before you ask, yes, I still eat meat, I’m just getting bored of it being everywhere.

Lazy loading and adding display:swap to my Google Fonts load took my @____lighthouse Perf score from a 60 to >90. Now that’s something.

RT @ChrisMurphyCT: The President’s new argument today, that anything he does to benefit his re-election, no matter how corrupt, is unimpeac…

RT @workboxjs: 🚀 Workbox v5 is now out! Thanks to all who contributed! ❤️

➡️ Huge improvements to the build tools and webpack plugin ➡️ Ge…

@malchata Yup! If curious, I use dank.sh

@malchata I use to totally agree until I started using them regularly and now i kinda view them as a syntax lint; I’ve literally caught errors because the ligatures didn’t trigger

RT @RonAmadeo: I propose we rename Google messaging services with the year of release, just like a copy of Madden or FIFA.

The provides fo…

@ScottKellum @TheOriginalECS UGH You’re also the best, but UGH

RT @TatianaTMac: Get in, LEWSR, we got things to learn

aka a new method of creating helpful things that I made up that no one needs

📚 Le…

RT @Mandy_Kerr: Post number two in my series “you don’t need a media query for that” featuring CSS Grid, auto-fill, minmax and repeat. ✨

h…

RT @funkensturm: I made a little tool for creating pleasingly smooth shadows: brumm.af/shadows

You can control the progression of v…

RT @WalterStephanie: #Ebook Reminder: the amazing “Resilient Web Design” book by @adactio is available online, and offline. Also it’s a PW…

RT @awprokop: I know it’s an outrageous outrage to suggest Republican senators are engaged in a cover-up but… if they don’t call Bolton a…

RT @bennyheis: To the dad who recorded his baby son every day and turned it into a video montage of him singing “Thunderstruck,” by AC/DC,…

RT @JanelleCShane: I swear to god it is moving

the neural net brownies are moving

why did I look inside the oven

RT @igrigorik: Great retrospective on the 2019 speed initiative @ EBay, and great to see tangible user experience improvements (via CrUX te…