Last post: Okay, the tech is neat, but don't use anything that only works in Chrome. Their hit rate for standards is weakening every year.

Shout out to the time I discovered the project `panopticon` at a job. It literally was tracking every engineers commits. Both for the company and for open source, fun, personal projects. The readme made it clear management found it hilarious. But being questioned on why I had more commits in my off hours than at work has left a sour taste in my mouth since. (No shit, my weird creative coding projects with lots of experimentation ended up generating more commits than rebuilding systems that absolutely could not fail. Funny that.)

I am, yet again, poring over a decade of texts on the right way to do django auth and I would love for there to be a one stop shop that gives me the steps _in order_ with decision points. Instead of the "yes, django auth.User is bad, but you'll need to read my blog post (which also has a tiny sliver of the problem) for details." Anyone in my network have the "new django auth best practices" primer? I'm probably going to use django-allauth, but I have reasons to want things like non-sequential ids for users as well and want to know how to support that effectively.

Today a woman shared an experience with me of a man at a mixed gender event talked to her around three times, and then after the event came up to her inebriated and asked her out. (I understood this to be "last week" as its a weekly event.) She was feeling apprehensive about attending today. I've worn "community management" hats long enough that my very first piece of advice is simple: Tell the organizer. She thought that was "making too big a deal of the situation." So I'm going to be direct with folks here on fedi: Community management is hard. But the big secret is we're all human and we can't be everywhere all the time. This situation is exactly the kind of situation we need to know is happening. If someone makes you uncomfortable you need to feel empowered to talk to the organizers. Don't get me wrong, I've had spurious and racist reports in my time. But there's an entire class of community organization problem that you can only solve with lots of moderate reports over time. So please: Tell your organizer.

So money is. . . not good right now. I technically have a patreon but it is zero rewards and mostly aimed at funding ppb work. I'd much rather offer my skill set for folks who have more money than time for weird custom work. Various skill sets: * python generally * css editing/fixing * web design (see piper.thunstrom.dev and teahouse.cafe for previous work) * javascript/typescript (mostly with react) * tech writing * creative non-fiction (A girl can hope) * general editing of English work * structural editing of fiction (It's been a minute) Email me, my fedi handle at gmail.com for discussion. PNW US locale. #GetFediHired

We were never really "stealth," but @npub190nx...r8sx and I have been working on building a new company: Announcing our new web hosting solution:

Teahouse Hosting

A Simpler Web for Everyone

For this release, you're the primary audience if you want something like github pages but run by a queer team of indie web enthusiasts. More features coming for the less technically sophisticated. The goal is letting people get ideas on websites they own and control as fast as possible.

Meet Twine, a girl who has trouble stringing two thoughts together, scared of her own fluff, but extremely sweet. #caturday #CatsOfMastadon

Okay, I'm not going to talk in detail, but my company is definitely not going to be healthy for me going forward. Which means I'm genuinely open to new opportunities. I'm a USA-based full stack web developer and open source maintainer. Primary language is Python. I can do react, but definitely prefer low-JS front ends. Good at the modern web platform, got a drive to continually improve ergonomics for other developers. If you have a solid lead, please reach out! #GetFediHired

It will astound me forever that the accessibility tech community settled on a numeronym, one of the least accessible forms of contraction. And very few do the work to use it like an abbreviation or acronym. Which is telling.