“npm install our project dependencies. Download this 5GB file onto your five year-old laptop. Install docker. Build and start the containe—”
You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
Ethan Marcotte
Ethan Marcotte
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Designer. Started that responsive design thing. Writes a bit, or tries to. Spends a normal amount of time thinking about The Locked Tomb series.
*A perfectly normal amount of time.*
My latest book is YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION! (You can purchase it from my bio, or just about anywhere books are sold!)
pronouns: he/him
website: https://ethanmarcotte.com
my latest book: https://youdeserveatechunion.com
portfolio: https://ethanmarcotte.com/work/
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I don’t know how to write about a year like this one; whenever I tried, I kept thinking about flowers.
So I thought I’d start with flowers. 

Our frail thoughts. — ethanmarcotte.com
I should be writing about a terrifically difficult year. Instead, I’m thinking about flowers and dead men.
I wish I had the words to describe just how valuable @Erin Kissane’s latest essay feels to me: 

wreckage/salvage
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need y...
It is that time of year, so I thought I’d mention that my book YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION is very much a thing you can buy for any tech workers in your life. Or yourself!
You can buy it just about anywhere books are sold, or ask your library to grab a copy!
#books #bookstodon #1u #YDATUbook


You Deserve a Tech Union — ethanmarcotte.com
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turns out `font-size: 105rem` produces a dramatically different effect from `font-size: 1.05rem`
you know. in case you were wondering
slapping `reddit -ai` to the end of everything i type into the world’s most popular search engine, the tech industry is fine and cannot possibly be improved
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“Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s the future.”
I hear that line a lot. The thing is, futures are tricky.


The line and the stream. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence is the future,” they tell me. The thing is, futures are tricky.
This interview feels like a tremendous missed opportunity: it reads like an airing of talking points, rather than properly interrogating a billionaire donor who’s comfortable slapping some nice fonts on openly fascist policies:
#uspol

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