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Kāng特Tè苏Sū。 kama pona! mi jan Tasa.

Blog

Here are the most recent posts to my blog. You can find older posts in the archives.

• Beware of the Leopard (2 August 2024)
• Making standards (23 July 2024)
• The web is for people (22 July 2024)
• Bastille Day tumbling (14 July 2024)
• Abomination: Heat Dome Edition (3 July 2024)
• “And from his being at all times liable to prosecution in the common course of law” (1 July 2024)
• “Scavenger Type” by NOFX (24 June 2024)
• Standardization Stories, a talk by Elika Etemad (fantasai) at CSS Day 2024 🔗 (6 June 2024)
• 😦 (6 June 2024)

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.

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, legos, annoying other lego people by calling them legos, 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.

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

I manage the Web Standards & Interoperability team at Apple. I’m Apple’s AC rep at the W3C, where I also sit on the TAG and chair the Privacy Community Group. I sometimes manage to squeeze in actual spec work between meetings.

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 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,
• 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 on your favorite ActivityPub service.

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 took French and Japanese in school, though my command of each is abysmal. I’ve been taking Spanish and Irish lessons in Duolingo, and I’ve been learning the conlang toki pona as well.

I’m tess.oconnor.cx on Bluesky, hober on cohost, hober on GitHub, hober on Instagram & Threads, hober@mastodon.social and hober@pixelfed.social on ActivityPub, and tesseraic on WatchCrunch.

I’m also on a bunch of other sites, though I’m less active on them. I’m hober on Facebook, hober on Flickr, hober on LiveJournal, hober:mozilla.org on Matrix, hober on reddit, hober on Tumblr, hober on Twitter, and TessOConnor on Wikipedia.