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: [@alexch@vermont.masto.host](https://vermont.masto.host/@alexch )
Autistic Alt: Alex C (npub1zhn…95tq)

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2024-11-15 17:09:23 UTC

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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 UTC

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