Ms Boba (rebuilding community era)

Join us! Join us! I have a bad case of The Busy™, but if by some miracle I can, I plan to stream later today and try doing a collective brainstorm of talks/topics we can give non-devs that ask "but what would I even talk about at a tech conference" (not a tech conference). If you have thoughts 👀👇

I deeply believe "for something" >>> "against something" in most things (advice included), so I need to work to flip these. But overall that kind of talks, while they may appear to be about other groups, still center developers and topics they care about or what they need to do. I want more!!!

Join us! Join us! I have a bad case of The Busy™, but if by some miracle I can, I plan to stream later today and try doing a collective brainstorm of talks/topics we can give non-devs that ask "but what would I even talk about at a tech conference" (not a tech conference). If you have thoughts 👀👇

Officially inagurated my very own @leaflet.pub-native publication...by posting to it directly from my blog """Original""" post: https://www.essentialrandomness.com/posts/probably-nothing As they say, "probably nothing" 🌝

also meant to show off the record and the original markdown, whose frontmatter gets auto-updated with the AtUri upon hitting publish

Officially inagurated my very own @leaflet.pub-native publication...by posting to it directly from my blog """Original""" post: https://www.essentialrandomness.com/posts/probably-nothing As they say, "probably nothing" 🌝

What I mean by "leaflet native" is that the lexicon content follows the leaflet text Lexicon even though the post is originally written in Markdown atproto.at/uri/at://did... Will dig deeper in the implications of what doing this means with time and what makes it possible

ok so, I did say I would show off something I did so time for a 2AM preview: - this is my personal site (in Astro) - in dev mode, I have a toolbar to login to my Atmosphere account - it gives me info about AtProto records on my pages - and lets me publish my posts to my standard site publications

"Ms Boba, it's been a while! Surely you haven't just finished THE FIRST ONE OF THESE!" ok, in my defense, I may have written the ultimate treatise on lexicon extension patterns: discourse.atmosphere.community/t/extending-...

ok i slept like shit which is when I give in to the lure of "maybe I can just write code for 5 minutes before doing these 20 more important things I don't love as much" so let's make a pact: for each of these I check out, I'm going to tell you (quickly!) about one cool side thing I'm working on

Another way that may help people understand why I'm so adamant and passionate about this topic: did we all have bad experiences with mods? Yes! Are our communities better when we normalize rhetoric against moderators/community managers? Fuck no! It kills our communities—even stops them being born.

"Actually if you make a software project in your spare time and put it out in the world for people to use, people have a right to see you as a service provider and relate to you like you owe them the service rather than as someone who's giving generously to them" what if not though

Another way that may help people understand why I'm so adamant and passionate about this topic: did we all have bad experiences with mods? Yes! Are our communities better when we normalize rhetoric against moderators/community managers? Fuck no! It kills our communities—even stops them being born.

So many people see how moderators get treated in servers and decide they cannot start communities because they could never live up to expectations. Or they do and set themselves up to fail by catering to people who see them as enemies, not as people generously offering their time. And we let it!

Or the idea that devs aren't creative! That Open Source devs look a specific way, that there aren't Open Source devs who do theater, and composing, and art, and poetry, and fanfiction writing, and sewing, and making, and and and! These are all things I know devs who do! Why would they not?

Once people realize that there's not as much of a barrier as they've been led to believe by institutions who prey on anger, they approach tech with more curiosity, they see its purpose differently, and they can make better choices for themselves without being tied to saviors or "thought leaders".

Or the idea that devs aren't creative! That Open Source devs look a specific way, that there aren't Open Source devs who do theater, and composing, and art, and poetry, and fanfiction writing, and sewing, and making, and and and! These are all things I know devs who do! Why would they not?

And again, what kills me is we've been conditioned (both as developers and adjacent folks) to just let this rhetoric pass! To continue being like "no it's fair cause I know people are angry and need a target". But it's! Not! Helpful! It's not helpful to them, it's not helpful to the ecosystem.

Or the idea that devs aren't creative! That Open Source devs look a specific way, that there aren't Open Source devs who do theater, and composing, and art, and poetry, and fanfiction writing, and sewing, and making, and and and! These are all things I know devs who do! Why would they not?