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Tim Smith he/him

Geek, socialist, and maker of stuff

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MonthJanuary 2021

I’ve been watch­ing Alien Worlds on Net­flix. If you’re like me, and just fas­ci­nat­ed with all things sci-fi, I think you’ll enjoy it. The last… 
I whole­heart­ed­ly agree with Ash­ley. Democ­rats lying about mon­ey that peo­ple des­per­ate­ly need is unfor­giv­able. There must be con­se­quences to aban­don­ing peo­ple in the mid­dle… 
Noth­ing like some Star Wars stamps to get me excit­ed to sup­port the Post Office. 
I agree with @mijustin​’s analy­sis here: VCs are par­tic­u­lar­ly hun­gry for there to be a ​“cen­tral­ized plat­form” for pod­cast­ing, where ​“dis­cov­ery, con­sump­tion, and mon­e­ti­za­tion can hap­pen… 
This video on how cap­i­tal­ism exploits all of us is a fas­ci­nat­ing and edu­ca­tion­al watch. I can’t get enough of Richard Wolff. 
Jacob Col­lier is a gift to human­i­ty. What an amaz­ing­ly tal­ent­ed person 🤯 
The four-day work­weeks at Wild­bit sound pret­ty fan­tas­tic. Looks like a peo­ple-first approach always ends up work­ing well. 
Respect Frontend Dev Jens Oliv­er Meiert: In order to become a bet­ter fron­tend devel­op­er you don’t become a back­end devel­op­er, you become a bet­ter design­er and advo­cate for… 
On Imple­ment­ing Pull Request Feed­back: A Short Story You should nev­er be so antsy to get your pull request that you skip the all impor­tant task… 
It is vital that we share our salaries. Lack of trans­paren­cy around salaries is what allows cor­po­ra­tions to steal from their employees. 
The lat­est episode of Left Bitch­es with @ggreenwald is a must-lis­ten. I found the con­ver­sa­tion about bring­ing peo­ple togeth­er across dif­fer­ent ide­olo­gies to be incred­i­bly hope­ful.… 
Reminder: This Nev­er Ends Well A lit­tle more than a decade lat­er, the pub­lic option fight should be a har­row­ing cau­tion­ary tale for Biden on both… 
I watched Out today. Anoth­er amaz­ing short film from Pixar. It’s a great sto­ry, and the end had me in tears. If you haven’t watched… 
I wish all the projects I worked on were on GitHub. It’s mess­ing with my pre­cious con­tri­bu­tion graph. 
Today was my last full day with Big Red, my cute lit­tle hatch­back Sub­aru I’ve had for the past three years. It is just a… 
Biden claims ​“there is noth­ing we can do” to halt mass death from coronavirus Biden has pre­dict­ed that the nation­al death toll from COVID-19 would… 
I’m try­ing to build my fol­low­ing off of social media. If you enjoy the things I write about, con­sid­er sub­scrib­ing to my blog 😊 
Not so dif­fer­ent after all, eh? Biden Admin to Keep U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, Rec­og­nizes Con­test­ed City as Israel’s Capital 
I just typed pointer: cursor and won­dered why it didn’t work. That Fri­day brain though. 
Joe Biden must put an end to busi­ness as usu­al. Here’s where to start In this moment of unprece­dent­ed crises, Con­gress and the Biden admin­is­tra­tion must…