Whitni @_whitni@mastodon.social
Sometimes librarian, always human. Artist, engineer, here to help keep the world beautiful.
On the importance of having heroes (how ever you define that word) that look like you. A face whose features are similar to our own evoke a feeling of trust. If the only role models available are ones who don’t look like you, what are you to think of your abilities to accomplish great things or be admired. This is a high level thought and if you don’t see the importance of a PoC protagonist in a super hero movie. Try again, this time with this extra piece of knowledge and more empathy.
TFW Sitting in a presentation on logging and you have the realization of using logs to determine where technical debt in a system architecture can exist. Another tool in the shed. #sysadmin #logs #technicaldebt #devops #logging #womanintech
I wish I was a little bit taller / I wish I had an
Being an open-source maintainer is really hard. A lot of people tend to act very entitled towards you, as if you "owe" them your time or your attention.
It's totally illogical: you put something out there for free, and now because of that, folks feel like they deserve more of it! And yet this is often the prevailing mood in OSS communities.
At the same time, you may start to believe this logic yourself, leading to "open-source guilt." This often ends in burnout.
I recently asked a friend 2 questions.
1. If you could only keep 1 thing you like about yourself what would it be?
2. If you could rid yourself of only one thing you didn’t like about yourself what would it be?
In the process of finding answers to these questions, I discovered how much I love myself, when I thought I’d find how much I hated myself.
We’re losing a lot of lights and this song, I’m so grateful it exists. A legacy that allows me to feel what I need to feel when I lose. #NowPlaying One More Light by Linkin Park.
Free money. Free as in puppies.
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I've come to find, after 3 weeks of deactivated Twitter that I like the world better without it. Not that I dislike those on Twitter, just the angst and rage level that exists in that space currently supersedes my level of *ucks to give.
Spent the weekend putting together a portable, encrypted, light weight USB bootable linux distro. I shall carry my computer in my pocket, and if I shall lose it, I shall not fret *too much*
Win10 to my right, Win7 to my left and I'm stuck here in the middle with tahrpup. (The CompSci Wheel)
I'm going to start referring to birthdays has revolutions. Another revolution around the great big star.
They are simple text files that I can easily manipulate and add/subtract change or create. WTF, this makes me happy.
Learned that sql files are just text files. Which meant that although my backup seemed corrupted it just had text error that was easily fixed with the replace function. Would not have known I could look at the file in my text editor without this bit.
If I accomplish anything in this life it is to never be a hypocrite. To remember that my view, my interpretation of this world differs from others and there is always the possibility that I am wrong.
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It takes a lot to not wallow in self pity these days, every time I visit this place, I leave in awe and appreciation of what Earth has provided and given to us.
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Learning how to do this again. Twitter is too overwhelming so coming here for a new space. Fresh space. Honest space. We'll see how that works out.
Just finished presentation on Purposeful Empathy. Slides & Speaker notes here http://bit.ly/erl17_empathy_slides and decided more will happen w/r/t expounding and doing more in research and teaching empathy in human interaction and design.
