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Theresa O’Connor / Treasa Ní Chonchúir

[tɝˈisə oʊˈkɔnɝ] / [t̪ˠɾˠæsˠa nʲi: xɔnˠxu:rʲ]

Hi, I’m Tess (she/her). Is mise Treasa (sí/í). 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.

You may enjoy reading my blog, finding out what’s been up with me lately, or learning about what I do for a living. The site map is a comprehensive guide.

Who am I?

I’m a queer lady, Erin Jr.’s mama, and Eryn’s girlfriend. The three of us live in San Francisco, though I work in a giant glass donut down in Cupertino. I love to travel, I enjoy watching sports, and I have too many keyboards and watches. Read more about me.

Blog Feed of recent posts

I’ve been posting here, off and on, since 1999. You can keep up with posts by subscribing to my feed, either drectly in your feed reader or via ActivityPub (Mastodon) by following [email protected].

Featured

Recent-ish, okay-ish writing of mine.

Recent

The most recent posts to my blog. Older posts are in the archives.

Professional

résumé

I manage the Web Standards team at Apple. 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 Apple’s AC rep at W3C and our GA rep at Ecma (where I also sit on the ExeCom).

I’m godawful at staying on top of email but, if you want to try, you can reach me at [email protected]. Mentioning [email protected] on your favorite ActivityPub service should work. Mentioning hober on GitHub is unlikely to get my attention.

More about me

I grew up near Boston, went to college in Indiana, and spent the aughts in San Diego before moving to the Bay Area in the early teens.

I travel a lot (too much, really). Here are some recent-ish international trips I went on:

Among other things, I’m fond of avocados, biking, craft beer, posting stuff to my blog, The Cube, my daughter, the Defenestration of Prague, dumplings, 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.

I’m a native English speaker. I remember a little Japanese, and even less French, from when I studied each in school. I’ve been taking Irish lessons in Duolingo lately, and have a passing familiarity with the conlang toki pona.

Contact me

or, you know, don’t

The best way to get in touch with me is to send an iMessage to [email protected], to message me on some Slack workspace we have in common, or to mention [email protected] via ActivityPub.

You can email me at [email protected] or [email protected] 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.

Elsewhere

I’m on Bluesky, cohost, Facebook, Flickr, GitHub, Instagram, LiveJournal, Loops, Mastodon, Matrix, Pixelfed, reddit, Twitter, Threads, Tumblr, WatchCrunch, Wikipedia, and other sites, usually with the username hober.

Site map

(Map)
A man and a pig sit next to each other in a movie theater. The man is in the blue uniform of the Aeronautica Militare. The pig is in a beige trenchcoat with a matching hat. The military man is looking askance at the pig. The pig is wearing glasses, and his expression is somewhat unreadable.
ファシストになるより､豚の方がマシさ。