Wow, it turns out if you have a ton of clients materialize over the fall, you have no time to tell the internet about them!
So here’s what I’m up to:
- Running for LITA president! Yup. If you’re a member in good standing of LITA, you’ll get your ballot in March, and I’d really appreciate your vote. Stay tuned for my campaign page and official LITA candidate profile.
- Coding for Measure the Future! This consists largely in arguing with Griffey about privacy. And also being, as far as I can tell, the first person on the internet to have gotten a Django app running on an Intel Edison, a tiny adorable computer that fits in the palm of my hand.
- Coding for Wikimedia! So…that happened. I’m doing an internal project for The Wikipedia Library, improving the usability of their journal access application system (and creating the kernel of a system that, over time, might be able to open up lots more possibilities for them).
- Coding for CustomFit! We’ve debuted straight-shaped sweaters along with our original hourglass (a coding process which was not unlike rebuilding an airplane in flight), so now you can make sweaters for people who may not want normatively-feminine garments. Yay! Also I implemented a complete site redesign last fall (if you’re wondering, “can Andromeda take a 12-page PDF exported from Photoshop, translate it into CSS, and rewrite several hundred templates accordingly”, the answer turns out to be yes). Anyway, if you’d been thinking of taking the CustomFit plunge but not gotten around to it yet, please go check that out – there’s a ton of great new stuff, and more on the way.
- Keynoting LibTechConf! My talk will be called “The Architecture of Values”, and it’ll be about how our code does (or, spoiler alert, doesn’t) implement our library values. Also the other keynoter is Safiya Noble and I am fangirling pretty hard about that.
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