Theresa O’Connor / Treasa Ní Chonchúir

Hi, I’m Tess. My pronouns are she/her. はじめまして、オコーナーです。 你好！我叫康ㄎㄤ特ㄊㄜˋ蘇ㄙㄨ。 你好！我叫康特苏Kāng Tè Sū。 kama pona! mi jan Tasa.

Blog

Here are some recent posts to my blog.

• Transgender Day of Remembrance 2024 (20 November 2024)
• LGBTQ+差別に反対する小説家の声明 🔗 (20 November 2024)
• Link roundup, “mix of optimism & pessimism” edition (19 November 2024)
• Transmissions: Dora Richter lived 🔗 (12 November 2024)
• Девочкой маленькой ты мне предстала неловкою… (12 November 2024)
• “Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.” (11 November 2024)
• The Counterculture Switch: creating in a hostile environment 🔗 (11 November 2024)
• Black is the color (9 November 2024)
• Transforming Markdown links into HTML while editing (9 November 2024)
• Happy birthday, Dad! (7 November 2024)

Older posts are in the archives. Keep up with posts by subscribing to my feed, either drectly in your reader app or via ActivityPub (Mastodon) via hober@feedsin.space.

Personal

I’m a queer trans lady, Erin Jr.’s mama, and Eryn’s girlfriend. EJ, Eryn, and I live in San Francisco, which sits on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone people. I grew up near Boston, went to college in Indiana, and spent the aughts in San Diego before moving up here in the early teens.

Check my now page to see what’s up with me these days.

I manage the Web Standards team at Apple and sit on the AC & TAG at W3C. Sometimes I squeeze in some spec work but, for the most part, I sit in meetings all day while my team has all the fun.

I’m godawful at staying on top of email but, if you want to try, you can reach me at hober@apple.com. Mentioning hober@w3c.social on your favorite ActivityPub service might work. Mentioning hober on GitHub is unlikely to get my attention.

Site map

• dated material, including posts to my blog, organized by tag or by date:
  • Seventies: 1979
  • Eighties: 1984, ’86
  • Nineties: 1990, ’93, ’97, ’98, ’99
  • Aughts: 2000, ’01, ’02, ’03, ’04, ’05, ’06, ’07, ’08, ’09
  • Teens: 2010, ’11, ’12, ’13, ’14, ’15, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’19
  • Twenties: 2020, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24
• my chart,
• various markup-related things:
  • the site colophon,
  • the custom elements and markup patterns I use on this site,
  • experiments I’ve made,
  • tests I’ve written,
• my keyboards,
• a little bit about my name,
• what I’m up to now,
• sports teams I support,
• slides or video from talks I’ve given,
• where I’ve traveled,
• and my watch collection.

The best way to get in touch with me is to send an iMessage to hober@me.com, to message me on some Slack workspace we have in common, or to mention hober@mastodon.social via ActivityPub.

You can email me at tess@oconnor.cx or hober0@gmail.com for personal stuff though, as noted above, I’m quite bad at email.

I may be Gen X but my attitude toward phone calls is decidedly Millennial: don’t.

I’m a native English speaker. I remember a little Japanese, and even less French, from when I studied them in school. I’ve been taking Spanish and Irish lessons in Duolingo, and I’ve been learning the conlang toki pona as well.

I’m on Bluesky, cohost, Facebook, Flickr, GitHub, Instagram, LiveJournal, Loops, Mastodon, Matrix, Pixelfed, reddit, Twitter, Threads, Tumblr, WatchCrunch, Wikipedia, and more.

Interests

Among other things, I’m fond of avocados, biking, craft beer, posting stuff to my blog, The Cube, my daughter, the Defenestration of Prague, Emacs, flags, FreeBSD, my girlfriend, HTML, interspecies snorgling, kittens, Japan, legos, annoying other lego people by calling them legos, 麻婆（mapo）豆腐（tofu）, the MBTA, Muni, mechanical keyboards, puppies, Python, retail therapy, sapphic art and literature, sport, Star Trek, the New England town meeting, transit, travel, turtles (and tortoises), Ultimate, urbanism, walking the hills of San Francisco, watches, the Web, and Zombo com.