Very sad to hear that Anne Sturdivant has passed away. If you were active on Micro.blog over the last couple of years, you may have read her blog or been part of conversations with her. Her username around the web was @anniegreens.
I spent some time this morning browsing her replies to me, general thoughts or feedback about Micro.blog, and my responses. We often see people come and go online, maybe dropping off for a while and then returning later. If we’re lucky, even small interactions and kindness can touch us.
Anne was featured in an interview on Manu Moreale’s People and Blogs just last year. On a part of her creative process:
Personal pieces are far more spontaneous and may reflect how I am feeling or a struggle I am dealing with. Other posts are reactions to blog posts, articles, podcasts, and movies or television shows. I also try to post a near-daily featured photo on my microblog. Sometimes these are curated ahead of time, where I’ll plan out a week of photos, but often they are a picture that the Apple Photos.app is featuring that day. I thought about the kinds of blogs posts once and wrote something about it, I’m not sure I’ve hit all of them yet!
Adam Newbold has some thoughts and additional links:
She was a brilliant front-end developer, and I routinely learned a lot from her. A prolific blogger, Anne participated in many of the IndieWeb blogging challenges and even started one of her own.
I didn’t really know Anne, but she was very thoughtful, and I got the sense that she was one of those people who made a difference. Rest in peace.
