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An obsession with work is a colonial, patriarchal, and capitalist construct. As such, the anti-work movement is an important part of decolonization, feminism, and anti-capitalism. Work is a tool of oppression By anti-work, I don’t mean that no one ever works. That’s preposterous of course. There are things that need to get done, and people need to do them. But this obsession with hard work as a virtue, as a good and righteous thing to do, the glorification of toil and sweat and labor… that’s a…
Last week, I wrote… I used to love this industry, and I do still love many of wonderful people in it. But as we’ve shifted from a craft to industrialization, everything I loved about the work itself has died. I’m constantly wondering, “What would I do next if I wasn’t in tech anymore?” And I keep coming up short. Trade & Craft I plan to keep riding the tech train for as long as possible, but treat it like a trade rather than a personality the way folks in plumbing or carpentry do with their…
tl;dr: I’m ending my Daily Dev Tips newsletter, and transitioning to RSS exclusively. I will still be publishing articles here (just not by email). I’m done I end up quoting Anna Cook a lot here. Recently, she posted on BlueSky… I’m so tired of the tech hype machine. Idgaf how you’re optimizing with AI, what the hell are you doing for people? How are you making the world actually better? Idgaf what your job title is or what you’re selling. I could give two fucks about your manifesto or your…
One common refrain I hear from American liberals is something to the effect of… Demanding basic human rights is not political. And like… I get where they’re going with this, but it seems so fucking naive and obtuse. Everything is political. Politics isn’t some “other” that’s separate from life. If you don’t agree, it might be because you’re in a privileged enough demographic that the politics of life don’t affect you much.
Over the last few years, I’ve lost touch with a handful of folks I considered internet friends. This sort of thing happens all the time, of course. But more recently, I had two folks who I used to chat with almost every day block me on Discord. Normally, I don’t find getting blocked to be all that big of a deal. But when it’s people you thing you’re good friends with, and you’re not sure why it’s happened, it hits different.
I recently had a complete a server migration for PAWS New England, the animal rescue we’ve adopted our last few dogs from. I’ve been working with them for at least 15 years now, and the server we were using was running an aging version of Ubuntu. It was time. Normally, I dread server migrations. With static websites and flat-file storage like my personal sites, they’re not that bad. But PAWS architecture has a mix of a static site generator and two self-hosted WordPress installs (a suboptima...
Content warning: this article includes mentions of addition and mental health struggles. Back in January, I wrote a bit about the unhoused friends I made while handing out tents and sleeping bags before a big storm that was coming to my state. Three weeks ago, I got a text message from one of them that cops had raided their camp and taken everything they didn’t have on their backs.
