The Paddydook
paddyduke@mastodon.social
<p>Makes punk/rock/electronic/soundtrack music</p><p>Accessibility & ethics in design</p><p>Neophyte anarchist and luddite</p><p>Irishman in Scotland</p>
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#GetFediHired #FediHire I’m looking for work in #Edinburgh, UK. I have 18+ years experience designing and building software for the web, but I’m open to non-software jobs, too. I want to work on projects doing good for communities. I’d love to avoid gen-AI. A colleague in my last job described me as: > “such a thoughtful and insightful colleague to pair with … and to talk ideas and challenges through with” If you know of anyone looking for a team-spirited fast learner, please let me kn...
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org 100% I don’t think anyone really hates technology. What almost everyone hates, but may struggle to identify or articulate, is the rapacious, capitalist, consumerist, colonialist, patriarchal hierarchy by which our technology is informed.
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@yosh@toot.yosh.is I don’t trust this argument because I hear it often in my own workplace, and yet the real effect of LLM coding has been the opposite. Now that you don’t have to go via, and get feedback from, opinionated developers who may slow you down, we’re seeing a kind of “first idea best idea” pattern play out. Exec level folks can much more easily and quickly create artefacts that they inevitably get attached to, or even ship. It’s “my daughter drew this logo idea” but for an entire c...
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“As far as I can tell, the entire idea of recycling is just theatre.” ‘i’m pretty sure recycling isn’t real’ by David Achu https://youtu.be/68zjxTTl5Ik
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