Well, that’s 2022 mostly wrapped, huh?
It’s been a heck of a year.
Friendly tech and bird nerd, highly caffeinated.
Category: travel
Pittsburgh’s Code & Supply just held a huge (1500 people) conference over the last three days, and of course I’d signed up to attend months ago, because 1) local 2) affordable 3) tech conference 4) with a code of conduct they seemed serious about. Plus, “Abstractions” is a really cool…
I’m moving to Pittsburgh again! Yay! Dale (my Mr.) and I will be there by August 10th. He’s got a cool job, and I’m not looking hard for a job, because I like consulting. Also, our friends are THE BEST!
This blog post is a little late. Others have written really evocatively about this subject, already. But, late or not, it feels wrong not to say something. The Ada Initiative is my favorite non-profit (besides perhaps the one I work for? :)). They’re my smile.amazon charity, when I remember to use it. AdaCamp changed my life. And I think sometimes librarians might be inclined to look at the Ada Initiative as “a tech thing,†something not relevant to reference librarians or children’s librarians or school librarians … or really any librarian who doesn’t write code for their job. But Ada doesn’t look at it that way.
Every time I came “back to America†from Alaska, I felt simultaneously excited, disquieted, and wistful about the proximity of other states to the state I was visiting. I would exclaim, “You can drive from here to other states! You just go that way on the interstate!†And perhaps people looked at me askance, but it honestly struck me, hard, every time.
I’m used to it now.
Book stuff I complained on Twitter about The Name of the Wind, which I’ve had sitting in my Audible library for a while and decided to finally listen to, now that I’m finished with Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy (which is fantastic!). TNotW is clever, funny, well-written, and well-performed by the…
I’m arguably through the prettiest part of the drive, so here are the photos I’ve taken so far. I might go a little out of my way to see Mt. Rushmore or the Badlands or something (which I’ve already seen and photographed, and anyway I want to show them to…
Anchorage to Tok, AK: 318 miles Tok to Whitehorse, YT: 394 miles (this was miserable) Whitehorse to Watson Lake: 275 miles (this was pretty great) This trip would be so fun with another human, especially, but maybe even alone with no birds to take care of. As I go through…
When we came up to Alaska, Dale and I kept a shared blog. It was a fun way to chronicle a weird journey, both the drive itself and the transition to living in Alaska, which is a pretty unique place. It’s been useful to several people through the years, because…
I don’t want to go to any more conferences that privilege “liberty” over hospitality. Because I’ve seen that there’s a better way. I get to learn more, from more people, and I also get to teach more at events that are truly inclusive. Why waste my time and money on events that aren’t?