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Zee

@Zee@social.coop

Queer, based in #Oakland, CA

Worker Owner at #ZincCoop and #Cohere. Parallel #Cooperative entrepenuer / practitioner.

Follow @zee for my artistic / personal / domestic posts.

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vaurora, to random
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So how would one prepare a consulting business for the wave of businesses realizing they need someone to fix their incomprehensible unmaintainable AI-damaged code in about a year?

Zee,
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@vaurora

I seem to recall Michael Feathers mentioning that the best and worst thing for his career was writing "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" as

  1. He had consistent work, since unmaintainable code is everywhere, but...
  2. He was always working with legacy code

So perhaps a modernized book / zine series / ??? on "Repairing Systems"?

Zee, to random
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In my worker-owned future; all job postings include how many hours applicants at the bottom of the pay scale would need to work in order to:

  • Buy a sandwich or similar lunch-time food from vendors within a 15m walking distance of the work location
  • Pay the mortgage for the median home sale-price within 30m of the work location
  • Pay rent for the median home rental price within 30m of the work location
josh, to opensource
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Hoo boy. I'm not naming names because I don't want to fan the flames, but the knives are out:

Events around have rightly emboldened volunteer-driven open source projects to take their hyper-wealthy downstream users to task.

Wild to think that many large companies have hollowed out their open source program offices (OSPOs), the internal teams who have been working on addressing these resource issues.

I fear this will get worse before it gets better.

Zee,
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@josh Can't wait for the Great Copylefting.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Me, living in California, for 350 days a year:
"Why do people even check the weather? What a waste of time! Just put on a black t-shirt and go."

Me, living in California, the other 15 days a year:
"Damn! They got me."

Zee,
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@mekkaokereke I moved to CA 10 years ago; and the last two years Jan/Feb feels almost like monsoon-season.

Here's to hoping it at least mitigates the fires and droughts...

Zee, to random
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An anonymous internet is highly valuable; a pseudonymous internet is highly valuable; a named internet is highly valuable.

Attempting to regulate these 3 Internets as if they are the same is ultimately futile.

Zee, to random
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appears to have really entered the stage of their existance, with pop-ups trying to sell new features after you leave a meeting.

Zee, to bluesky
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So far, is winning where it really counts: adorable animal posters and web comic artists.

ETA: Yes, this is an invitation to send me cute-animal and web-comic posters

Zee, to random
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I'm about to delete ~1k lines of JavaScript with 1 <turbo-frame>, AMA.

Zee, to random
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Petition to rebrand "Red/Green/Refactor" to "Salad/Sparkle/Sweep" because it's more fun to use 🥗/✨/🧹 !

Zee, to random
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Forking is good, actually.

Zee, to random
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And it's official! is under the management of : https://blog.opavote.com/2024/01/opavote-is-under-new-management.html

Transitioning revenue-positive, but not "vc-scale" technology services to worker-ownership has been a big part of my strategy for the last 4 years. It's so exciting to see it pay off!

HT to @anaulin and Damien Burke for all their hard work bringing our first full acquisition to fruition over the last year!

Zee, to random
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Re: https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/111699960916060256

I agree with this take; amplification + commentary is a critical part of asynchronous large-group conversation.

Not supporting it directly is a bit of a womp-womp.

Zee, to random
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TIL about , an remover so you can play your library on anything!

Zee, to random
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I really hope the next gen of cell connectivity goes from Ultra Wideband to Ultra Wideband Ultimate or something, just so the acronym changes from 5G UW to 5G UWU on my phone.

Zee, to random
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Please recommend me a relatively inexpensive conversion-funnel observation as a service ?

We:

  • Don't want to host it ourselves
  • Don't want to leak user data to Google etc.
  • Don't need the Heft of Segment/Mixpanel etc.

Rec?

Zee, to cooperatives
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FYI, has a Journal feature that is on a trajectory to provide like functionality on your own domain,.

But instead of being ran by people who wring their hands about deplatforming Nazi's; it's product design and engineering, customer support, and hosting are provided by worker and community owned data .

HMU if you want to give it a whirl!

Hosting starts at $60/yr for personal and community sites; or $250/yr for organizations.

Zee, to Oakland
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I imagine there is an program for electronics redistribution and/or repair? A librarian friends personal laptop is a netbook that’s experiencing some intermittent hardware issues around the WiFi, and I no longer am confident / enthused in my own diagnostics and repair skills; and spoons are sparse.

Zee, to random
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Towards the 24 Hour Work Week: A Practical Guide to Transforming Work through Solidarity and Cooperative Economics

Zee, to IWW
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I have TheDigitalWorkersUnion.org and thedwu.org coming up for renewal do you know anyone who A) would want them and B) would steward them towards a digital workers union?

cc @beep @jalcine @zkat or

Zee, to random
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I found a couple small flat birbs

a monarch butterfly, orange segmented wings spread wide along a black body. The wings have white eyelets along the front and ear; and yellow eyelets about a third of the way from the tip.

Zee, to random
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The existence of “doomscrolling” implies the existence of “doomposting” and “doomboosting”

In this essay I…

Binder, to random
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I can tell that I’m a bad influence because my Californian-since-birth coworker now does Midwest goodbyes.

Zee,
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@Binder That's the long drawn out "welp, we should be heading out..." thing right?

I moved the other way and have lost my roots.

Zee, to random
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Went to the SF Ruby Meetup today. It's been a while since I've gone to an industry meetup.

It was nice. We had pot stickers. And Ramen.

People shared computery things they care about.

Probably the most time I've actively thought about the more computer-ward side of programming in 5 years.

Zee,
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The problem that has been occupying my time lately has been "how do we run software companies in a consent-forward, agency-nurturing way?"

And I don't really know how to find or attend or organize a meetup about that.

danilo, (edited ) to random
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The way tech interviews is kind of a reveal on the ways tech is unwell.

Specifically, the typical estimate of talent is whether or not someone fits or does not fit a particular preconception.

It's dressed up with all this elaborate ritual, but what it comes down to in practice is:

  • you walk in
  • they watch you move
  • they decide if they want to take a risk based on how well your motion conforms to their preconception of talent

and crucially, what makes this so artificial:

secret ballot

Zee,
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@danilo This is the process recommended in thinking fast and slow.

Assess for 2~3 particular skills, sign post which one you are assessing at any given time. Once you are done assessing Skill 1, move on to skill 2.

Zee, to fediverse
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As a Child of the 90/00s Internet; the current model for building and maintaining digital relationships is... Well...

Shite.

As a teenager, I was a member of a community of thousands of nerds who loved pushing computing hardware to its limits across several websites.

Two had private sections where hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computing equipment was swapped, bought, and sold; with little fraud and "drama".

How can we design the make healthy relating the norm?

Zee,
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@toolbear and I definitely pulled to hard because I want everyone to show up and co conspire. sorrt about that, I hope it didn’t make your energy / attention stuff harder

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