Charlie Gerard

It took me a long time to understand that it's not because you show people that something can be done better in an easy way that they will actually care about doing it. If someone doesn't care about details, it doesn't matter that it's easier now, a tool isn't gonna change their personality.

Every time I'm in Portland I feel like maybe I should move here 🤔

If you had a ticket to Grace Hopper and have not cancelled your plans to go to San Francisco, go to @github.com's LinkedIn right now if you'd like to attend GitHub Universe for free ❤️

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

CASTING CALL: I had a team drop out, so I need 2 devs on short notice to join an episode of Web Dev Challenge in Portland on Oct 21–23 TimescaleDB and sensor data challenge. if that sounds like fun, grab a friend and slide into my DMs ASAP! 💜

Started the day with a little cry and then I went to my weekly Muay Thai training and now I'm in this blissful state of exhaustion in which, just for a little bit, I don't have enough energy to be affected by anything at all. It's not gonna last long but it feels so peaceful. 😌

Ran the Portland half marathon! 🏃🏻‍♀️🥳🏅 Reached my goal of 2h10 without stopping! I've been focusing a lot more on zone 2 training and I could feel it's slowly paying off 😃 Definitely felt better than my last half a couple months ago.

Very excited to read this new @nostarchpress.bsky.social book! It's probably way out of my league but at least I'm sure I'll learn something!

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

Periodic reminder that the only thing you get for being really good at what you do, is just more work 🙃

This was a *THRILLING* interview. Cory has so much to say on AI, workers rights, software freedom, and so on. It's refreshing to hear nuanced, realistic views beyond "ai good" and "ai bad". Give it a listen!

After careful consideration and a look at where the industry is spending it's funding we've decided to pivot #FFConf in a "new" direction. I present to you: ffconf.ai Please share with bots and humans alike.

I spent the summer prototyping a device that projects information and imbues computing into the real world, I call it the Lightbulb Computer. Full write up and demos at lightbulbcomputer.com Or on YouTube: youtu.be/0R-9qkjPEqg

Love ye ol' websites from the 90's and early 2000's? Check out this New York City Art Gallery Tonight: WEBSITES WEBSITES WEBSITES! websiteswebsiteswebsites.net @archive.org @retrotechdreams.bsky.social @textfiles.com @defcon.bsky.social

The Front-End Community is Still Alive and Beautiful I thought about dropping an addendum into my last post to say just how overwhelmed I am, in the best possible way, by the way all of you in the... https://geoffgraham.me/the-front-end-community-is-still-alive-and-beautiful/

As much as it's nice to see people experiment more now that AI makes it easier, it's kinda sad that I don't see much knowledge sharing. No walkthrough of their process, implementation, etc. It's all just "look at this cool video of what I built" and that's it... 😞

“Let me make it clear: without people at the top of their game sharing their experience and knowledge—regardless of whatever ‘game changing’ technology is in place—we are pulling up the ladders and committing our industry to stagnation and death.” bell.bz/youll-miss-p...

I have a lot of feelings about the whole CSS-Tricks debacle. Here's me trying to be constructive about it. ericwbailey.website/published/cs...

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Day 4 of whale swimming: lots of fin slapping throughout the day! So cool to be able to see what's going on both above and under water!

Day 3 of whale swimming, I didn't think it could get even better! Not only did we find a mother and calf again but there were 2 more whales with them! It was unbelievable!

Day 2 of whale swimming: we saw a mother and her calf!! We were so close, it was absolutely amazing! 😍

At the end of the day, we got a much closer encounter with a couple of whales but the other group got an even better experience so I'm really excited for the next few days!

Day 1 of whale swimming: I learned that I'm not immune to seasickness 🤢🛥️ It was quite miserable but it's ok cause I saw whales!! 😍 The ones we saw mostly stayed at the bottom so it wasn't always easy to spot them but we got a singer and I could feel the vibrations through my body, it was so cool!!

I'm in Tonga to go whale swimming starting tomorrow 🐋, we just had breakfast with the group who went this week and hearing them tell us their experience made me even more excited, I can't wait!

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

For your weekend: The first early release talk from DEF CON 34 has made it to our YouTube channel. Please enjoy national treasure Cliff Stoll updating his 'Stalking the Wily Hacker'. If you haven't read 'The Cuckoo's Egg', this is your sign. youtu.be/656058JxTM0 #defcon #defcon34

My friends and I won a CTF! 🥳🥇 Had so much fun hanging out with the Lonely Hackers Club at @defcon.bsky.social Definitely coming back next year!

Having such a good time at DEFCON! Meeting lots of really nice people and having super interesting conversations, feels good to really nerd out.

Super excited to be in Vegas for DEFCON but I'm not made for this heat

Really interesting video about commercial location data from apps, surveillance and national security youtu.be/rN4nxD59Fyk?...

The SF half marathon today was awesome! Great weather and route 😍

Decoy Font, a TTF that hides what you're typing from AI. Really cool experiment! www.mixfont.com/experiments/...

Just bought my ticket to go to DEFCON next month! I'm going solo and it's my first time so I'm super excited but ngl, I'm also a little bit scared 😅

What is FFConf? Who should attend? 🧑‍🔧👩‍💼🧑‍💻 Why? 🤔💭 - we try to answer these questions, look back at Reflections in 2024 and some curated links for your weekend in @ffconf.org latest news: ffconf.org/articles/202... Plus, early bird tickets still open at 2026.ffconf.org

It's funny how now that I've been learning to play the drums for about 8 months, I watch live music differently like "I could do that" 😂 and now I kinda wanna be in a band 🤔🥁

Haven't had much time to celebrate pride month this year but trying to show up for the last few days. Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Tfw someone else asks to cancel the early meeting I had scheduled but didn't wanna go to anymore

You think you have nothing to hide? Okay, but, do you know how much about you a webpage can track, without even asking for permissions? Take a look at taken:

Simply the best ❤️

Another one 😃✈️

Didn't make it to the summit yesterday but still got to see a gorgeous sunrise 🌄 We started really well, making great time but 3h into it, the steepness got my legs tired earlier than I expected and I knew I didn't have enough energy to do 5-6h more hours to the summit + all the way back down 😞

Not a bad place to spend the night 😌

Gear and layering check before my 2-day climb of Mt Shasta! 🏔️ The weather is amazing so hopefully we make it to the summit! 🤞🏻