Derek Caelin @Argus@mastodon.technology
Technology for good.
East Coast, United States
My next #book is "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hell yes.
Are millennials lazy whiners or victims of circumstance? | Michael Hobbes
Writer Michael Hobbes says there are too many stereotypes about millennials. What is missing is the realization that millennials are going to be in financial...
Oh man. My reservation for All the President's Men came in. Gotta finish Hidden Figures fast!
@Argus I talked to a local organisation that does Bible translation, and now I go in to help out one day a week. It was pretty straightforward, because they often have volunteers.
@Argus I help out freeCodeCamp.com on local events and study sessions, and contribute some of my technical articles to their publication. :)
@Argus Wikipedia editing, an open-source project here & there - the usual
knowledge should be free of charge
knowledge should be free of restrictions
knowledge should be available
knowledge should be protected
knowledge should be archived
Techies, do y'all volunteer your tech skills? How do you volunteer?
Supreme Court’s Decision to Uphold Trump’s Travel Ban is a Disappointment – The Mozilla Blog
We are deeply disappointed by today’s Supreme Court 5-4 ruling which provides a legal basis for the Trump Administration to prohibit individuals from Libya, Iran, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, North Korea ...
« Your quarterly reminder that unless you are a Ferengi from Star Trek, the word "female(s)" is an adjective, not a noun.
"Women" is the noun you're looking to use not "females". An adjective is used next to a noun. Ex: I am a female designer. I am a woman. We are not "females". https://t.co/Vrdk5QpoLA »
— Retweet https://twitter.com/ebeinke/status/997304235824992256
Today was the first day in a while I started getting stressed reading the news and social media. I'm worried about the country. Even when we toss Trump out of office, we will have a phenomenal task undoing the damage he's done to the country's character and our institutions.
China's robotic spy birds take surveillance to new heights
Hi-tech drones that look and move like real birds have already flown over restive Xinjiang region
Why I'm automatically deleting my old tweets using AWS Lambda https://vickylai.com/verbose/delete-old-tweets-ephemeral/ #coding #developer
Today we pagekite
#translation platform question:
What good F/OSS web platforms are out there for coordinating volunteer translation of short texts (on the scale of brief conversations or even individual utterances)?
Per my recent toots, there’s an urgent need for translation of Mesoamerican Indigenous languages. Some of that translation will be remote. I’m betting it’d reduce everyone’s stress and labor to have some lightweight infrastructure in place to facilitate that work. But what?
Harvested the plants today. 🌱
Listen to: Bolton May Not Be In Sync With Each Of Trump's Foreign Policy Instincts
Reading a new book as the sun rises out my window. So happy to be home.
I've just discovered Brython, #Python scripting in webpages. https://davepotts.software/2018/06/24/brython-python-for-scripting-webpages/
Important-looking man in the metro, all suited up, writing items on a notebook. I look at the pen, and I make out three words while he writes them:
"do not beg."
Note to self: everybody is winging it
