#MonkiGras where @reconditerose is speaking about how to build a sustainable community around a fork, going from Redis to Valkey. Also celebratory Valkey birthday cupcakes!
Powen Shiah@polexa@tech.lgbt
photo-taking, queer, extremely internet. also languages, cities, coffee, & (pop)culture. Connecting SF & Berlin. Comms for @sovtechfund
Lucas Käldström and Alex Zenla spoke about their journeys working in tech and open source as teenagers through today (they’re both just in their 20s!). Thanks to RedMonk for convening this gathering, and looking forward to today — including giving my talk at 11am.
A quick look back on yesterday, my first #MonkiGras: A great slate of mind-expanding talks, from @geekygirldawn’s feudalism and power analysis of rug-pulling and forks to Michael Coté’s attempts to play Dungeons and Dragons with GenAI.
Apparently airline travel bookings from Canada to the US for summer travel are down 75% over this time last year.
You read that right. Seventy-five percent. That's just shy of a million bookings:
March 2024: 1,218,570 bookings
March 2025: 295,982 bookings
https://onemileatatime.com/news/airline-demand-canada-united-states-collapses/
https://www.oag.com/blog/canada-us-airline-capacity-aviation-market
One Mile at a Time · Airline Demand Between Canada & United States Collapses, Down 70%+
@nygren@hachyderm.ioAAAARGH! I'm not at all surprised, but NIST's excellent whitepaper on Inclusive Language (NIST.IR.8366) has been withdrawn:
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2021/NIST.IR.8366.pdf
This was an excellent resource that I reference all the time. I feared it would go away so I made a snapshot a few weeks back that I uploaded here: https://nygren.org/archived/NIST.IR.8366.pdf
Waldo Jaquith on why he works in the open (blogging, open sourcing software, etc.): “I’ve long worked in the open, overwhelmingly for one reason: it increases enormously the surface area for success.” https://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2025/03/work-open/
Waldo JaquithWhy I work in the open.I've long worked in the open, overwhelmingly for one reason: it increases enormously the surface area for success.
WHOA....
NYT: "The U.N. has advised all of its employees who work at its New York headquarters, as well as their family members, to carry U.N. identification cards and a copy of their passport page that contains their visa, because they are at risk of being stopped by immigration officials, according to a copy of an email seen by The New York Times."
Apparently when you travel to the US, free speech is not allowed. Vance comments in Europe about freedom and free speech sound more hollow then ever before.
"The tactics have unnerved foreign tourists and sent a chill through immigrant communities in the United States, who say they are being targeted for speech — not for breaking any laws."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/us/politics/trump-immigration-visa-crackdown.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U4.sMBd.d5ilR1okVqBZ&smid=url-share
#usa #freespeech #tourism #immigrants #vance #trump
The New York Times · Trump’s Deportation Agenda Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists
A question for my friends who are #trans and/or #menopausal and/or anyone dealing with hormones, #hrt and related supplements. I’m preparing an opt out post on data sovereign period trackers for those who menstruate and would like to include ideas for hormone tracking too. Which apps or systems do you use? What is needed in this space?
Comments or DMs welcome. This post will be deleted in a few days to ensure safety.
(Edit: A note that I appreciate and fully respect that trans people and menopausal people are often (although not always) members of very different groups and I do not wish to confuse populations or identities. In this instance I just want to reach anyone whose everyday expertise requires careful, expert, or experimental management of synthetic or bioidentical hormones. My apologies in advance if this causes any confusion or concern. 
)
Democratic Senators helping Trump's strongest Senate allies repeal Section 230 could give the Trump administration unprecedented power to control online speech (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/democratic-senators-team-up-with-maga-to-hand-trump-a-censorship-machine/
http://www.techmeme.com/250322/p17#a250322p17
Techdirt · Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship MachineAt the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics, a group of Democratic Senators have decided to collaborate…
Aus aktuellem Anlass: Die Electronic Frontier Foundation gibt Empfehlungen dazu, wie man sich und seine Daten bei der Einreise in die USA schützt.
Die Zahl der stichprobenartigen Durchsuchungen ist zuletzt stark gestiegen. Jetzt wurde ein französischer Wissenschaftler an der Grenze zurückgewiesen, weil man bei der Durchsuchung auf seinem Handy Trump-kritische Chats mit Kolleg:innen entdeckt hat. Das ist absolut krass.
https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017#when-at
Electronic Frontier Foundation · Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data On Your Devicesby Sophia Cope, Amul Kalia, Seth Schoen, and Adam SchwartzDownload the report as a PDF.EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe U.S. government reported a five-fold increase in the number of electronic media searches at the border in a single year, from 4,764 in 2015 to 23,877 in 2016.[fn] Gillian Flaccus, Electronic...
I'll be in London next week and speaking at #MonkiGras 2025! When I saw that the theme this year is “Sustaining Software Development Craft,” it was my chance to put together a talk about #OpenSource and how it's become so important to modern software development and digital infrastructure... Like sewers and roads are essential for the physical side of today's societies. I'm really looking forward to sharing what I've discovered about sewers and software and who pays for them with the @sovtechfund
Europe-Trumpistan science war erupting in Houston airport
One thing I miss most about my time at Glitch was seeing what people across the internet were creating every day. So even if you don't have an opening, I'd love to hear what you're working on!
Take a peek at what I'm looking for in product engineering or management: https://keith.is/hire-me/
keith.ishire meI'm looking for my next challenge!
I'll be in London next week and speaking at #MonkiGras 2025! When I saw that the theme this year is “Sustaining Software Development Craft,” it was my chance to put together a talk about #OpenSource and how it's become so important to modern software development and digital infrastructure... Like sewers and roads are essential for the physical side of today's societies. I'm really looking forward to sharing what I've discovered about sewers and software and who pays for them with the @sovtechfund
Feeling great about my upcoming international travel right now.
The Guardian · German man with green card ‘violently interrogated’ by US border officials
Interesting charts and data about immigrants in Berlin over the last 10 years. I'd only paid attention to the number of U.S. citizens for @democratsabroad- related work, other stuff is a surprise. There are almost the same number of Serbians in Berlin as Americans, for example!
https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2025/03/auslaender-einwohner-berlin-zuzug-indien-fluechtlinge-china-vietnam.html
www.rbb24.deNeue Berliner: Wer kommt, wer bleibt - wer prägt die Zukunft?Fast 3,9 Millionen Menschen lebten im vergangenen Jahr in Berlin. Die Zahl der Einwohner ist seit 2014 um knapp zehn Prozent gewachsen. Das liegt besonders an Zuwanderung aus dem Ausland. Eine Auswertung, welche Herkunftsländer die höchsten Zuwächse haben.
Tickled to see the @travisbaldree’s “Legends & Lattes” and “Bookshops & Bonedust” in the original as well as translated into German in my local store. I think the German versions of the titles are nice too!
Magie & Milchschaum (Magic & Milkfoam)
Bücher & Barbaren (Books & Barbarians)
