Remembering a story about Sakai at a Free Mumia event in the day, walking up to the widow of the cop Mumia is accused of shooting. They commiserated, it's a tragedy; her husband killed in the line of duty, & then in the same breath: but even if Mumia DID it, I still support him.

Challenge: take only the titles from your Spotify top 20. reorder, reformat, punctuate, as needed, make a poem that describes this year. Here's mine:

A random thought I had today about good data modeling: think how easy it was for Netflix to update Elliot Page's name across all their collection, compared to how much work it would've taken Blockbuster 20 years ago.

Is brushing and flossing before going to the dentist the same thing as cleaning up before the maid comes?

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Every couple years I get on Google to see if The Winds of Winter has been published yet. At this point I don't know if I'd be more surprised to find out it had or that it still hasn't.

on a day like this we can all be Italian

Please share this with everyone who is sinking into desperation: CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT URGENT. It was urgent in the 60s, 70, 80s, and 90s. Now, tens of millions of people are ALREADY dying every year and species are going extinct at an unprecedented rate due to #ClimateCrisis

I wrote a post on Managing Unknowns in web engineering for the Human Made blog: some ideas on progressively narrowing down big unknowns into workable size chunks.

I made this document b/c I know my friends + loved ones in the repro movement don't have the capacity to answer all questions, or tell folks where to go + what to do. I made this so you can turn your anger into action. We all can do something, here's how: docs.google.com/document/d/1WU…

Some people say that the political class has no solution to all the crises we face. In reality, though, the political class sees the actual crisis as a potential loss of governability, which they hope will be solved by drowning the country in cops.

Sep 28th is Global #WordPress Translation Day. A good opportunity to celebrate two really cool facts: 1. More than 50% of WP installs are in a language different than English (US) 2. The Polyglots team translates WP in more than 200 languages and language variants.

WordCamp Philly planning is starting to pick up steam, with a focus on bringing new voices and perspectives into the WP community. Local folks interested in getting involved, hit me up! meetup.com/philadelphia-w…