Excited to be back at the NERDSummit this year. If you're in New England and want to see Hacking Your Emotional API, I'll be there Friday March 20, 10am at UMass Amherst nerdsummit.org

As of now the NERDSummit is still on, and I'm still planning to be there.

I was about to announce we’d be doing our workshop at Railsconf but sadly that’s not happening. I think it’s the right decision, tough I am sad to miss this chance with some of my favorite people.

If you have heard about my Hacking Your Emotional API talk, but haven't seen the video, you can see it at emotionalapi.com If you're interested in our workshops, you can find info at emotionalapi.com/workshops.html

"...after years of watching humans build web products together, I’ve noticed most people get wound up over four core issues: •Security •Freedom •Identity •Worth " alistapart.com/article/unders…

"From outward appearances, a trauma survivor may look whole and healthy, but trauma can fester like an invisible wound, weakening the body’s defences until it manifests in the form of an illness." medium.com/@biobeats/how-…

I forgot to mention here - the NERDSummit is now virtual. I’m glad because things are serious. I’m still doing my talk at 10am Friday via zoom.

Attending (virtually!) John Sawers' Hacking Your Emotional API at #NERDS20! "Bad news: this is a public API." Your Emotional API

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk at the NERDSummit this morning. Slides: speakerdeck.com/johnksawers/ha… Workshops here: aliceamos.me/p3retreat/ (The one I teach) p3workshops.com  thecrucibleproject.org (I haven’t been yet, fen can tell you more)

And of course there is an EmotionalAPI workshop as well emotionalapi.com/workshops.html fen and I take the ideas in the talk and expand them, so you can participate. We’re starting to think about how to make it work as an online workshop too.

Great talk, mind the emotional middleware

A nice reminder

In yesterday's workshop we went through the LGBTQIA alphabet together step by step, and people asked great questions! Here are the graphviz diagrams I showed to break it down.

Just so it's extra clear, the "underpopulation crisis" that Elon Musk is talking about doesn't exist, except for in the minds of white supremacists who promote great replacement theory. The conclusion to draw from this is straightforward.

Poetic truth tiktok.com/@theshortestst…

Just blogged: Sending Spammers to Password Purgatory with Microsoft Power Automate and Cloudflare Workers KV troy.hn/3d6k0jB

If you or someone you know is new to Ruby or Rails and would like to come to RailsConf - they'll be paired with a Guide who can help them navigate the conference and meet people. cc: Turing School Ada Dev Academy Flatiron School

Great news everyone! My new talk "Hacking Your Emotional Firewall" will debut at Madison+ Ruby on 8/1/2024. It's great and will feature: * Station Wagons * Descartes * Firewalls * TCP Handshakes * This One Weird Trick for Successful Therapy * Algorithms For Emotional Connection