Yay, thank you! ❤️ I have a severe lack of cute dresses in my life ☺️

Well, you look fantastic. Can I ask where the dress is from?

I love your poetry so much ❤️ Sending you teary-eyed hugs 🤗

Haha, not sure if it's possible to definitively anything that can't be measured empirically. Glad you're in a safe place ☺️

Yeah, I don't have the best answers. What do you feel like your living as your true self is missing? Do you feel yourself making progress to that vision? What's missing?

That makes sense! I definitely share in your experience of anxiety that comes out of wanting to be open and expressive but also protect yourself. I'm navigating something similar and, well, I don't have a good answer right now about what to do.

Generally, for people I know, I've found that I'm a very good judge of whether or not they will accept/embrace/vibe with my gender expression or be off-put by it and I know that influences the degree to which I mask (which I'm unhappy with, but working on). For people I don't know—generally they don't care as they have their own problems to work through, but I live in a socially liberal city so there's that 😅

I think bumblebee has a "find a friend" app to make those platonic connections.

Oh no

including a new feature called Vault for engineering teams to store and share authentication "secrets" securely

oh my god

I'll watch this later, but woof. It's not looking good already 😂

This is the way.

I always end up wishing strong narrative focused games like Red Dead Redemption 2 would have female protagonists. Alas.

I've found that tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons and Dragons, Monster of the Week, The Sprawl, and so on are so much better to get those kinds of "this is me!" stories. If you haven't found much community yet for yourself (an important step for me, personally) I would look for queer roleplaying groups in your city or online.

One thing to keep in mind is to not under-eat, but instead eat better. Salad wraps with a protein are kind of a go to for me as I can get a bunch of greens in with minimal bread and use a fish protein. Raw foods ftw as well. Eating more often rather than all at once is also a good as it keeps your metabolism going for longer.

Avoid skipping meals. If you eat too little your body will assume food has become scarce and it’ll store away as much as possible as fat to use later, kind of defeating the purpose of your exercising.

Beans and mushrooms are also good sources of protein. Quinoa > rice. Finding good healthy recipes is also a must. There’s a ton of delicious recipes that you can do. Naturally fermented foods are also great in moderation (high salt content). In general, if it’s cooked the food is easier for your body to use and the calories are more accessible which is why I’m recommending raw veggies and such.

Also, you can make your own granola really easily by tossing oats, pecans, pumpkin seeds and some honey in a bowl with some oil and oven roasting it for a few minutes. Find a recipe and enjoy it with unsweetened whole milk Greek yogurt and some fresh fruit. Overnight oats with chia seeds are also easy to get going with the same idea of adding fruit.

Hope this is helpful!

I guess a more modern example you might run into is something like Rust's no_std environment; which strips out the standard library of the language that doesn't work on every device the language is designed to target (namely microcontrollers that don't even have an operating system on them). Or like, maybe you're writing your own operating system.