Alex Chaffee

https://ruby.social/@alexch

Coder since age 6. Rubyist since 2006. Co-created Gamelan, jGuru, Pivotal Tracker, Burlington Code Academy, and some other stuff. Occasional agile coach and/or coder and/or teacher. A dog's best friend. He/him.

I enjoy #coding #ruby #agile #xp and will toot about them here and elsewhere.

I am #ActuallyAutistic and use an alt account for #autism and psych stuff, plus other stuff at random cause this is Mastodon, dangit.

I use my #Vermont alt for #dog pix

GitHub: http://github.com/alexch
Pets: Krypto, Abby RIP, plus some chickens and worms
Vermont Alt: [@[email protected]](https://vermont.masto.host/@alexch )
Autistic Alt: Alex C (npub1zhn…95tq)

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2024-11-15 17:09:23 GMT

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i predict that many more people will be turned off by its hostile UI/UX and culture of scolding and never discover the many joys of #Mastodon
which is fine, i guess, since it was never meant to be a twitter replacement, nor even an anti-twitter, just a janky federation of janky instances full of janky posts by janky folks seeking refuge from the influencers and advertisers and bullies elsewhere

2024-10-31 21:44:42 GMT

reminder: the Luddites were not anti-*technology*. They were anti-*factory owners firing weavers and replacing them with lower-paid loom workers*. They could have retrained the weavers and kept their pay high, but bosses gonna boss. We are all Luddites today.
The name later became a slur because the bosses won, and used propaganda to hide the history, and because smashing looms is a dramatic symbol, and humans like retelling dramatic stories, not depressing facts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

2022-12-07 20:29:55 GMT

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“Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”
Terry Pratchett, Snuff (a Discworld novel)