Kim Werker

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Co-founder and publisher, Nine Ten Publications
and Digits & Threads online mag. Views here my own. Editor, writer, maker. Formerly #mightyugly she/her
Websitehttps://kimwerker.com
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Kim WerkerApr 12, 2023
There I was concerned a bookish event I wanted to do might overlap with a huge annual fibre event. Turns out it doesn't, but it's on the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Sad :(
Kim WerkerApr 7, 2023
Through no design whatsoever, it would seem that my primary engagement approach over the last month has been to royally screw up emails to dozens or thousands of people, and spend a lot of lovely and enjoyable time chatting with them when they reply to those emails thoroughly confused or concerned. I do not recommend you try to replicate this approach, but overall I'm reminded by it that most people are wonderful, and I have no regrets.
Kim WerkerMar 16, 2023
So proud of my parents, who have channelled heartache into action for 20 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u3QsTc0ZPc
Albany Celebrates Its 20th Walk | The Piper Family

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Kim WerkerMar 16, 2023
Tonight I learned that the M. Night Shyamalan reason I listened to so much Blues Traveler in high school is the season finale of Poker Face.
Kim WerkerMar 1, 2023
Charlie ChoMar 1, 2023

“I grew up in Upstate New York. There were days where we had a two-hour delay … to let people get safely to school. … We had #snow here in Dunbar at the top of the hill on 16th … when it was raining in Kitsilano…. And so having an awareness that everybody needs to be safe, and that not everybody may be facing the same challenges to get to school — I think would do us all very well.”

— Kim Werker (@kpwerker) on #CBC #Radio’s On The Coast (Feb. 28, 2023)

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-46-on-the-coast/clip/15969248-snow-again-hits-metro-vancouver-people-reminded-winter

Kim WerkerFeb 28, 2023
I have been in tech-support hell for DAYS AND DAYS about all kinds of issues related to criminally terrible documentation, tech that was never updated for the (not new anymore, folks) internet age, and baffling user interfaces. But I just solved an issue (not really related to any of those things) by myself, and I've decided this means THE TIDE IS TURNING, my friends.
Kim WerkerFeb 22, 2023

Today I willingly used a Microsoft Office product for the first time in like 18 years, and it worked out of the gate. The membership software we run our online magazine on was sold. This day is upside down, and I can't tell if I want to set it on fire or, like, ignore it all.

[I'm guardedly optimistic about the membership thing, but bracing for instability.]

Kim WerkerFeb 14, 2023
kottke.orgFeb 14, 2023
Teaser trailer for season three of Ted Lasso. "In this third season of Ted Lasso, the newly-promoted AFC Richmond faces ridicule as media predictions widely peg them as last in the Premier League..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m14CQFtNi8
Ted Lasso — Season 3 Official Teaser | Apple TV+

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Kim WerkerFeb 14, 2023
Ok, #database people, can you help? We need to draw data from a couple of sales channels and feed it into a system that will calculate royalties, and we need to run a variety of reports from it. It's a pain in the ass in Airtable and my live-in database person (@gwerker) tells me we just need to be able to use SQL. What's the best tool for us to use that 1) we can afford as a bootstrapped, distributed startup (i.e., little $$, no office), & 2) we can use long-term as not-database-experts?
Kim WerkerFeb 14, 2023
The sweet relief you feel when your kid's teacher sends home the selection of WWII novels the class will choose from, and THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS is not among them. (And the absolute pride you feel when the kid casually mentions that when the book came up in conversation in class a while back, he chimed in that "it's problematic.")