Software bricoleur, pacific atheist, flawed feminist, imperfect anti-racist, science supporter, climate solutions fiend, evolving native gardener, photography hoarder, coffee ritualist, zero-waste consumerist, executive dysfunctionalist.
Built Code School from '12 to '18. Made keepachangelog.com & started shields.io.
Briefly, COVID Tracking Project volunteer & Florida health data newsroom helper.
| Pronouns | he/him |
| Website | https://olivierlacan.com |
| Keep a Changelog | https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/ |
| Open Source | https://github.com/olivierlacan |
RE: https://mastodon.social/@iamkonstantin/115683940989103660
I can't believe anyone at GitHub thought it was ok to ship something that "versions" your deployment pipeline by using mutable git tags.
I still remember making a PR to some rando's fork and them clearly not understanding what they had changed.
And that fork was promoted in official channels by GitHub.
Mostly stopped reading Daring Fireball years ago but reading about Alan Dye's departure for Meta I was immediately thinking about Mike Matas and the absolute waste of his talent at Facebook.
Looks like I wasn't the only one.
Lots of inside Apple talk but overall a seemingly accidental good news for everyone who actually cares about human interfaces and interaction design.
In a time when science and public health are under unprecedented scrutiny, the role of school nurses in safeguarding student health has never been more critical. Vaccines remain a cornerstone of pu…
It actually happened. Most likely concession speech from the current mayor tomorrow. https://www.thestranger.com/general-election-2025/2025/11/12/80322878/katie-wilson-is-seattles-next-mayor
An actual progressive from local unions as Seattle mayor instead of a PNW tech bro capitalist version of “Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer”.
What a world. https://ruby.social/@olivierlacan/115534722967612803
Somewhere, Bruce Harrell is slamming a table. Katie Wilson is up by 1,976 votes and 0.72 percent of the vote. It’s tight, but we’re outside of recount territory, and it’s mathematically impossible for Harrell to catch up. Katie Wilson will be Seattle’s next mayor.
This thing that 404 is writing about in the US—the dehumanizing fake content created purely because Facebook pays people to make it?
https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/
It has a direct precedent in the Myanmar genocide and has been widely reported on for years. Karen Hao's work on this is outstanding:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1039076/facebook-google-disinformation-clickbait
Two years ago, I wrote at very great length about how this played out in Myanmar. It is so upsetting to see how many of the same dynamics are at work here now.
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