sheltering under cats @ceejbot@rafting.io

I am methodically writing responses to all the lovely people who messaged me, mostly to say that we, uh, want to have our ducks in a row first, lest we throw ill-defined work at somebody.

I have learned a valuable lesson today.

oh god my DMs just exploded

tl;dr need website design + possibly an adorable logo
can do the html/css bits from design comp
can pay
want to give work to somebody who needs work
how to say this usefully?

Friends, I wish to write up a clear, actionable, not-a-nightmare-client requirements doc for a website design for an open-source project. (Yes, we have a $ budget.) Do any of you have examples of this for me to learn from? ty!

Why does it have to be spiders?

Working toward a 0.2.0 release of boltzmann (a js http framework, built on a solid core of well-tested dependencies, with a hopefully-useful middleware opinion). It’s docs docs docs right now. I think the code is in a very usable state.

RT @ekp
They are so far away from the problem that they can't even begin to appreciate someone trying to name it and solve it https://twitter.com/_alialkhatib/status/1334630220616388610

RT @lizthegrey
I'm excited to be one of the opening plenary talks! Come hear me describe what we did to implement chaos/resilience engineering at @honeycombio on our _stateful_ data ingest/indexing services, with less than a dozen engineers! https://twitter.com/nora_js/status/1331019787099582466

Trans rights are human rights.

I second this message.
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RT @substitute
This should have been obvious, but if you don’t think trans people are who they say they are, you’re not my friend. History will judge us for this moment. Pick a side and pick the right one. Trans rights are human rights.
https://twitter.com/substitute/status/1334683672385974272

RT @TeagWall
This is not a surprise. The fact that this, and how the vaccine works, has been communicated so poorly to the public, however, is a disgrace. Here's a quick "Explain it like I'm 5"
/1 https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1334663233383358470

RT @quephird
Anyway... I’m officially on the market and available. If you’re looking for someone who learns quickly, cares more about quality than quantity, communicates extremely effectively, and feels that vulnerability and empathy are just as important as technical ability, hit me up...

RT @7StellarJays
Steller's Sea Eagle showing off some fabulous white pantaloons.
Parque Cóndor, Otavalo, Ecuador, Feb 2020

We took some time off from Demon’s Souls and resumed controller-handoff play this evening. I killed the Armor Spider on my second shot! yay! and then I forgot I was in human form and was immediately killed by an invader! boo.

RT @HNTitles
Facebook was Caught Secretly Deleting Mark Zuckerberg's Political Awakening

RT @juliepagano
These slides from my mid-career survival talk are inspired by my time at Google. My experiences there are not unique (to me, to google, or to corporate DE&I work, really).

https://juliepagano.com/blog/2016/10/06/mid-career-survival-talk-transcript/ https://twitter.com/juliepagano/status/1334601972775669760/photo/1

RT @pborenstein
acronyms for article about Timnit Gebru's experience:

ERG: employee resource group
OKR: objectives & key results
DEI: diversity, equity, & inclusion
NAUWU: nothing about us without us https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1334562067169202176

Ethical human beings should resign from Google immediately.
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-an-ethical

Oh hey, Brian Eno in the studio recording _Here Come the Warm Jets_. Full glam mode Eno making strange noises with synths, tapes, and a guitar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0_XIdbx6eY