Chris Downie

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she/her 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈, Maker of Stubular Apps, Engineering Manager, and  expert
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https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/can-i-offer-you-an-egg-in-this-trying

I am part of what we are now beginning to recognize to be a demographic tidal wave that will, in the next five to ten years, reshape higher education as we know it. Transgender people, and especially transgender youth, are recognizing and actualizing our identities at absolutely unprecedented rates, catalyzed by a perfect storm of quarantine isolation, social media communication, and new ways of describing the trans experience. This talk sets out to examine one of these new modes and how it functions, both to foster community through shared experience, and to provide trans people who haven’t yet realized their identities with the vocabulary and the tools to effectively question their gender. As you might imagine from the session title, I am speaking, of course, of the transgender coming-out comic.

Can I Offer You An Egg In This Trying Time?

On the memetic rhetoric of transgender coming-out comics

Stained Glass Woman

Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”

Opinion | Elizabeth Warren: We Can Prevent More Bank Failures

The recent bank failures were entirely avoidable.

The New York Times

Real programmers don't use Linux. Or *BSD for that matter. Real programmers have seen into the heart of computers and they know that there is nothing good to be found.

Real programmers have run to the woods. They hide in fearful certainty, waiting with dread for what must come.

That or macOS. Depends on the project.

I accidentally said “hey Shirley” instead of “hey Siri” to my phone this morning and now it is stuck in airplane mode.

I honestly forget who said "crank to buy" first; may have been me, maybe not. Either way, I had some thoughts on the matter and quickly built the prototype you see here. Wade Cosgrove polished it up nice and shiny into what is now in Playdate Catalog.

All seems simple and obvious, but a few random design considerations as I was working on the prototype: (in thread)

Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.

h and l - move left and right
j and k - move down and up
η and λ - move backwards and forwards through time
ξ and κ - translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ - moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
𐤄 and 𐤋 - switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
𐤉 - supplicate to chosen deity
𐤊 - challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q - exit

[getting murdered] this could have been an email
what a week