Permanence

Permanence 2026-06-30T20:58:00+00:00, by Emma Humphries, from Infinite Wishes 🏳️‍⚧️🚀 Yesterday, Bandcamp laid off most of the rest of the engineering organization, replacing it with an “AI Center of Excellence.” So that means the most recent production code I wrote before I was laid off, in 2023, along with the rest of the union supporters, a rewrite, with tests, of the system that tracks the number of plays of a music track on the site, to report to artists and rights holders, will be paved over soon. My friend Lynne Anne messaged me overnight, not about the layoffs, but that on bsky, people were linking to a project I wrote as a quick hack, over 20 years ago: The Unitarian Jihad Name Generator. I still get notifications, a couple of times a month, from the Second Life Marketplace for sales of a scripted, in-world item I wrote in my spare time a decade ago. There’s at least two generations of iCloud apps replacing the iPhoto galleries I worked on in 2007. I think the contributions I…