Putting together the blog post collection has meant trying to find old links in the Wayback Machine
One was this one by the legendary Kathy Sierra in 2004. It’s both inspiring and depressing, because we all know what happened in the intervening two decades
“A Computer Book Author’s Manifesto” https://web.archive.org/web/20120118171954/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/ksmanifesto.html
In case you don’t know what happened.
1. Kathy was driven off the internet by a nazi and the entirety of tech sided with the literal nazi
2. The computer book market collapsed to a fraction of its former size
3. Software quality collapsed
4. Kathy returned to the internet a decade later, only to be driven off again because tech again prefered to side with literal nazis over women cooties.
5. Dev education turned into an industry of shilling and grift
6. Generative models are nuking what’s left
@baldur oh man I remember the time Kathy disappeared from the internet.
It's so hard to imagine this. Well, it's hard for me. I'm not famous, I'm not drowning in hate mail or death threats.
@OldAintDead @baldur She was one of the canaries in the coal mine, a warning of Gamergate to come.
Wouldn't be surprised if what happened to Sierra was one of the key cases used as an example of how western society could be attacked and fragmented a decade later.
@baldur it really was insane how everyone sided with w**v. I'll never understand how it took him showing of a literal swastika tattoo for everyone to realise he was a fascist. Like, he was never quiet about it, it was always there.
I hope Kathy is happy, where ever she is...
@SnoozyRests @baldur People really underestimate both the active depth of misogyny and the latent breadth of fascism.
I suspect these things are interdependent on each other. The idea that there's an easily distinguished class of people who are inherently for some purpose and inherently bad at other things is a fascist idea. But we teach that in the cradle, just as soon as we're giving them toys, if not by dint of who is - and isn't - there to care for them, and why.
@baldur Just another person coming in to say Kathy Sierra changed my life. I was just a programmer but she helped me realize that I love teaching and mentoring.
It's because of her I show pictures of kittens in my presentations every once in a while to shake things up.
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