Theresa O’Connor
Theresa O’Connor
Theresa O’Connor
I’m a queer lady, Erin Jr.’s mama, and Eryn’s partner. The three of us live in San Francisco, though Eryn and I both work in Cupertino. I love to travel, I enjoy watching sports, I have the unfortunate habits of collecting keyboards and watches, and I’m illegal in over 60 countries.
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Most of the many “…was the name of my high school band” jokes I’ve made over the years were verbal and are lost to time, but some were here on my website or on social media. Since I’ve imported pretty much all of my social media posts...
The Boring Internet, by Terry Godier, via Jeremy. Good essay, but I really hate how the text is only revealed as you scroll. Fortunately, you can quickly scroll the whole way to the bottom, then back up to the top, and then read...
Eryn and I went to the Netherlands with her family for a week this May. We stayed in a cute AirBnB in Broek in Waterland, a small village about 8 km north of Amsterdam. I ran into Todd at our gate before we even left SFO—he was on the...
While staying at an AirBnB during our visit to the Netherlands, I wrote some code to import all of my AirBnB stays from over the years, as a part of my ongoing attempt to import all the things! There haven’t been all that many of them,...
We all end up where we do because of the strangest confluences, buffeted by the winds of circumstance. We can only try to end up where we feel we should be. — Frances. Why are the Artemis Ⅱ photos on Flickr?, by Anil Dash. Speaking of...
an orange tulip a red and pink tulip yello, white, and red tulips red and yellow tulips begonia a pink double tulip a white and pink tulip a pink, fringed double tulip Keukenhof orchids say trans rights paperwhites a daffodil orange &...
This post relies on subresources (styles and scripts) that your feed reader will not load. You may want to click through for this one. While chatting with Anne the other day I casually asserted that you obtain a tag from by extracting...
I stayed at Black Barn in Broek in Waterland, Netherlands for 7 nights from May 3, 2026.Al made the arrangements. #broek #broek-in-waterland #netherlands #waterland ∎ Black Barn.Home in Broek in Waterland · ★4.97 · 3 bedrooms · 4 beds ·...
The 2026 edition of the Windup Watch Fair San Francisco was at Fort Mason this weekend. I only made it to the fair for a couple of hours on Friday, but I think I made the most of my limited time there. I bought a couple of ads from Ad...
Like Frances, Eryn and I have also been rewatching The West Wing. Periodically on the show there are these moments where politicians from both parties solemnly uphold democratic norms while treating each other with respect and wow, those...
Happy Lesbian Visibility Day to all who celebrate! Here’s a photo of Eryn and me being visibly lesbian in Cole Valley a couple weeks ago (photo by Eryn). #GirlsWhoKissGirls #lesbian #LVW26 #GirlsLikeUs #TransIsBeautiful
W3C’s Advisory Committee & Advisory Board (the AC&AB) met this week in Hangzhou, in Zhejiang Province (浙江 (Zhèjiāng)), a bit southwest of Shanghai. Hangzhou is beautiful—you can easily see why Marco Polo called it La Cité du Ciel (The...
End of an era: Tim Cook Will Step Down as Apple C.E.O., by Kalley Huang and Tripp Mickle. Community Letter from Tim, by Tim Cook. Also with big “end of an era” energy: Tick, by Chris. As I tried to say elsewhere, everybody who...
Personal Encyclopedias, by Jeremy, via Kottke. delphitools indie toolkit, by ruby morgan voigt, via Jeremy. Via Virginia: defuddle.md is a simple tool for generating a Markdown representation of a web page. It’s super easy to use it from...
Everyone, I’m so, so sorry to report that the zombocalypse is upon us. Some domain squatter got ahold of zombo.com in February. I just noticed this today. Pour one out for another lost relic of the ’90s web. According to Wikipedia: As of...