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Carter Baxter
@tbaxter@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Ex-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.
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@Meyerweb@mastodon.social I think one of the problems with people comprehending this and understanding it is that all the photos we see don't look real.
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/
@drahardja@sfba.social The Democratic Party continues to break itself into smaller factions, while completely ignoring anyone who isn't already in one of those factions.
@drahardja@sfba.social back when I was active on the old #django irc I knew someone developing such a thing. But that’s been awhile.
@drahardja@sfba.social William Lyons and Malcolm Sayer are both spinning more than fast enough in their graves to generate power for this next generation of Jaguars.
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@webology I think the danger is when people who are *usually* smart conflate that into think they are *always* smart.
They are not.
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?
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@mwt@mastodon.nz @clipperchip@ioc.exchange @tprophet@defcon.social this happened to me, too. I was stranded in DFW for a day while my mom sorted it out somehow. We had no idea as we were driving to the airport they were taking down their signage. Just….. gone.
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@aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com it’s excellent. I’ve had similar conversations before, generally using a clumsy battery metaphor, but never approached such a clear and elegant articulation