Folded between the pages.
Some statements about “AI”, and about putting down what you mean.
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The last year of something, before something else.
The house is valuable because it is the house.
On paring things back, and finding everything that remains.
All tomorrow’s parties.
What happens next? Well, you tell me.
Retour.
Doing a thing I used to do all the time, and having some feelings about it.
Propellant.
We cannot separate the everyday use of “AI” platforms from their use in death and war.
I find them on the street & shadow.
It wasn’t until the end of our chat that I learned her name.
Our frail thoughts.
I should be writing about a terrifically difficult year. Instead, I’m thinking about flowers and dead men.
The line and the stream.
“Artificial intelligence is the future,” they tell me. The thing is, futures are tricky.
A right to copy.
This is one author’s short, failed journey to file a claim in Anthropic’s copyright lawsuit. (Oops. Spoilers, sorry.)
A carried leaf.
What we talk about when we talk about showing our work.
Some well-made things.
Here are some things I’ve enjoyed lately.
Against the protection of stocking frames.
“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.
A notional design studio.
A design language, if you can keep it.
Newslettered.
Eric wrote about his newsletter subscriptions, and asked some friends to do the same. Here’s my entry.
Link bug.
I added a links section to my website. Here’s how I made it, and why.
Unbreaking.
Here’s to new work, and to a little more clarity amid the chaos.
Responsive web design turns fifteen.
The original “Responsive Web Design” article was published fifteen years ago. Time’s weird, man.
Hallucinating.
A minor semantic quibble.
Magick images.
I’ve upgraded my site’s social media preview images, using a combination of ImageMagick and Eleventy. Here’s entirely too many words about how I made it all happen.
It’s time to organize.
There’s an old organizing joke someone once told me: “Who’s in the union? You and I.”
You deserve a new book design.
A peek into You Deserve a Tech Union ’s new design, and the typefaces—and process—that made it happen.
Refresh.
In 2023, I wrote a book . Several months later, my publisher closed its doors. And now? We’re back, and better than ever.
Commencement.
Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
Parker.
Another year, another redesign. Might as well get to work.
Moving on from 18F.
I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is still happening.
A challenge of blog questions.
Jon and Naz kindly tagged me into a blogging challenge! Namely, to answer a set of questions about how I blog, and why.
Ames & Amherst.
No hate. No fear—well, a fair bit of fear. But I’m ready.
Two books, no longer apart.
I’ve put my first two books online for free.
A catalog.
Here are some things I know.
Times to strike.
The largest union of tech workers just went on strike.
Reacquired.
Last year, I wrote a book . Several months later, my publisher closed its doors. This is about what happens next.
This site goes up to Eleventy.
I just migrated this little website’s internals over to Eleventy . If I did my job right, you won’t notice the change.
Hello, 18F.
I’ve been a designer at 18F for one week now.
Slingshot.
I just attended my first Labor Notes Conference . My head’s full, and my heart’s on fire.
Blockin’ bots.
Here’s how I’m blocking “artificial intelligence” bots, crawlers, and scrapers.
The negotiation cycle.
On the work, and being endlessly clever.
Lowe.
Spotted a copy of You Deserve a Tech Union at my local library. It made my decade.
Generative.
Nineteen thoughts about “generative artificial intelligence,” spanning a few centuries.
Collective.
A prominent investor got excited about collective bargaining. I did too! (But probably for different reasons.)
Reviewed.
My book was reviewed in Labor Notes. I’m still pinching myself.
The 2023 that was.
A little marker for myself, from one year to the next.
Broadly.
I’m excited to share a change in You Deserve a Tech Union ’s pricing.
A new op-ed: on OpenAI and worker power.
What happens when workers take collective action, and in an anti-worker industry?
Boston meetup, redux: “You deserve a tech union!”
Tech workers of Boston! Curious about unions? We’re having another meetup about it !
Boston meetup: “Why do tech workers deserve a union?”
Tech workers of Boston! Curious about unions? Let’s have a meetup about it !
In medias.
Writin’ up—for you, but also for me—a few book events from last week.
Minetta.
I went to a conference last weekend, and it was wonderful. In fact, I’m still thinking about it—and about what can happen next.
A little book and its author, out in the world.
So! You Deserve a Tech Union ’s been getting a little attention lately! Here’s a short roundup.
Three weeks.
You Deserve a Tech Union ’s launch feels like it was just yesterday! What is time anymore