Carter Baxter

Ex-designer, occasional dev, recovering journalist & lousy guitarist. Proud 18F alumni. These days I usually traffic in management musings, civic tech thoughts and bad jokes.
Don't blame my employer for the dumb things I say.

Personal site: https://another.rodeo

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2024-11-18 23:08:50 UTC

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I’m keeping one eye on the starter packs for when I’m ready to *selectively* expand my pool, but for now am still following pretty much just known entities, and very much trying to keep them broad. I don’t want to over index on anything.

2024-11-18 21:43:34 UTC

I was asked today to write up a quick under-the-hood look at how I built DSCovery, the Django-based civic tech jobs aggregator I created awhile back. So, if that's your sort of jam: https://another.rodeo/building-dscovery/
#django #CivicTech

2024-11-18 16:46:52 UTC

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I think the danger is when people who are *usually* smart conflate that into think they are *always* smart.
They are not.

2024-11-18 16:46:07 UTC

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So true!

2024-11-18 16:09:34 UTC

I was thinking today about how "though leaders" routinely throw out terrible ideas, and the entire concept of "thought leadership" is problematic, when I realized that the thought leaders require thought followers.
So maybe we should do less of that?

2024-10-17 20:57:50 UTC

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I think it was @npub1spt…wwgs talking about who|what|where pages (or something like that) that inspired me to put that up.

2024-10-17 20:52:33 UTC

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Hey, i *did* have something on there! https://another.rodeo/about-carter/

2024-10-17 18:55:38 UTC

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Now you've got me wondering if I've done this or not.

2024-09-06 22:32:55 UTC

#django friends in the DC area, want to do something really cool? https://www.senate.gov/employment/po/positions.htm#:~:text=U.S.%20Senate%20Committee%20on%20Appropriations

2024-09-04 20:30:16 UTC

Some very smart, talented, and creative friends of mine recognized that "herculean tasks" and "sisyphean tasks" seems a bit limiting, so they came up with some more.
I love these and have now collected them:
https://another.rodeo/tasks/