Elias Jackson

Some writings on my life philosophy. If you haven’t met me, this is a good intro to who I am 👋🏽 github.com/FOSSforlife/...

Off to Clojure/Conj! 🛫 2026.clojure-conj.org

sees a cube in real life "this is JUST like the Blender Cube"

Going live playing No Man's Sky! Come join the chill stream twitch.tv/eliasjackson...

kepano stays winning 💪🏽

LFG 🚀🌍🤘🏾

Clojure is such a breath of fresh air. A language that (better than any other) matches the way my (many (seemingly simultaneous)) thoughts are organized.

Elias's Metal Checklist - My personally curated "essential" metal albums list. Save it to your Obsidian vault gist.github.com/FOSSforlife/...

favorite new Stereogum Discord emoji

Good shit youtu.be/Q-HreXGgBrU?...

The argument of "Hammock Driven Development" is simple: most bugs aren't caused by bad code, they're caused by insufficiently understood problems. More thinking, less typing. Seems more relevant today than ever. Watch the talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n...

you shouldn’t be allowed to make a startup if all you care about is making a startup being a founder is not a real aspiration

They’ve done it again 🔥🔥🔥 archspire.bandcamp.com/album/too-fa...

Normally I have no idea why you would cover an instrumental, but somehow this works

ATProto PDX’s first meetup was a fun time! Looking forward to the next one

Sometimes I get self-conscious when I’m listening to a YouTube video in public and I start visibly smiling/chuckling. But today I just watched someone else do that and it was a beautiful thing to see. Don’t ever be afraid to smile :)

right now everything in the world is telling you to go faster, ship more, add that feature, start another project so i'm actively working on feeling ok not doing any of that

This shit is why I’m a Journalism On ATProto extremist. We need to own the distribution layer.

‘Age Verification’ will force trans people to out themselves to use the internet. After Kansas suddenly invalidated hundreds of trans peoples’ licenses, experts warn the discrimination is set to extend to online spaces.

Very important!

My timeline is half leftists complaining about Gavin Newsom and half liberals complaining about Graham Platner and I'd like to propose that we launch both of them into the sun together.

Even giant tech companies are made up of individual employees who mostly want to do the right thing. Resisting lawless ICE subpoenas is an easy place to start. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

They really buried the lede on this, but I love the fact that you can query your Bases in the CLI and output JSON! This is exactly the push I needed to start using Obsidian as a database (albums, articles, etc)

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

The official REAPER website and forums are offline today as part of the National Shutdown. #reaperdaw

i think the biggest issue where i split ethically in a meaningful way with people is that i have long been against intellectual property as a concept. i think IP helps disney, not small artists. a lot of people want to strengthen IP in response to ai stuff and i just don't think that's a good thing

formats over apps

American teens are flocking to a new video app

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!