Career Directions
Hi. I AM LOOKING FOR WORK
I've caught the so-called "March Madness" where you are supposed to send a newsletter before the end of March "no matter what."
Good job, Rose!
Under the Trump Administration the NEA started to enforce that grant applicants did not promote so-called "gender ideology." My friend Rose Oser who works for the National Queer Theater has been working with the ACLU to push back. Read this article: READ.
It's such a privilege to know someone doing so much on the front lines during this never ending dark night of the soul.
What else
I've been in a portal lately because job applications, interview prep, and meeting new people has been taking up so much of my attention. I am alive. I am happy.
I did manage to find joyful footing and potential directions with software again though. Something that has always been incredibly important to me in tech, and the arts is accessibility. It's really important to me that computational thinking is something made available to all people in all communities. I think that the tools for making art with code, for as long as I've avoided it, are really fun and inspire curiosity and a sense of play. I don't want to live in a world where the only people who are building things are white.
Because whiteness seems to have a tendency to do research on The Other, and then write a solution that for The Other. Then you go and meet the people building these things and discover it's an all white community doing land acknowledgements amongst themselves.
What I want to do is teach communities how to write handcrafted code for the web. Learn how to write their own tools, how to make their own designs, how to use the tools out there, how to repurpose it. How to really take advantage of the fact that all code is text.
I think this feels right to me. And feels closer to where I want to be. I don't know how it's going to play out.
But here are my next steps, and I want to be held accountable:
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Apple development pays me, but I'm switching to using to open technologies and FLOSS (free and open source software). It needs to be done convivially (In the Ivan Illich sense). Corporate tooling is not-convivial
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I've begun to experiment with some ideas for the web. And I've been getting caught up with all the honestly amazing changes that have happened in the browsers and ECMAScript, WebAssembly, and WebGPU. I am inspired
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I'll share my progress with my little experiments. The goal is to create tools that invite others to help, and help people to learn.
Lastly I've put more helpful information on my website:
That website is the best place if you're like minded to keep up with me. And I'll stick to monthly-ish updates here.
Thank you,
Moon
Literally, if you hear of anyone who needs web dev, or iOS help. Definitely think of me.