#disabilitydrivendevelopment — Public Fediverse posts
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I don't give a fuck, fuck you.
I'll care about YOUR gd friends and family, you cunts.
Anyway. Go read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.
Get a copy for some kid or teenager or young adults you know (of). JESUS CHRIST MAKE PARENTS AND CARERS READ IT.
Thing's from 2003 and still relevant, ow, my existence hurts.#book #books #Books2026 #Read #Reading #ReadingList #ToRead #FreedomToRead #story #stories #literature #kid #kids #Child #Children #ChildrensMentalHealth #ChildrensLiterature #Teen #Teens #Teenagers #autistic #AutisticJoy #Autism #AutismAwareness #AutismSpectrumDisorder #AutismSpectrumCondition #Asperger #disability #DisabilityDrivenDevelopment #DisabilityAwareness #Disabled #Ableism #FightAbleism #StopAbleism #Ableist
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I don't give a fuck, fuck you.
I'll care about YOUR gd friends and family, you cunts.
Anyway. Go read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.
Get a copy for some kid or teenager or young adults you know (of). JESUS CHRIST MAKE PARENTS AND CARERS READ IT.
Thing's from 2003 and still relevant, ow, my existence hurts.#book #books #Books2026 #Read #Reading #ReadingList #ToRead #FreedomToRead #story #stories #literature #kid #kids #Child #Children #ChildrensMentalHealth #ChildrensLiterature #Teen #Teens #Teenagers #autistic #AutisticJoy #Autism #AutismAwareness #AutismSpectrumDisorder #AutismSpectrumCondition #Asperger #disability #DisabilityDrivenDevelopment #DisabilityAwareness #Disabled #Ableism #FightAbleism #StopAbleism #Ableist
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I don't give a fuck, fuck you.
I'll care about YOUR gd friends and family, you cunts.
Anyway. Go read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.
Get a copy for some kid or teenager or young adults you know (of). JESUS CHRIST MAKE PARENTS AND CARERS READ IT.
Thing's from 2003 and still relevant, ow, my existence hurts.#book #books #Books2026 #Read #Reading #ReadingList #ToRead #FreedomToRead #story #stories #literature #kid #kids #Child #Children #ChildrensMentalHealth #ChildrensLiterature #Teen #Teens #Teenagers #autistic #AutisticJoy #Autism #AutismAwareness #AutismSpectrumDisorder #AutismSpectrumCondition #Asperger #disability #DisabilityDrivenDevelopment #DisabilityAwareness #Disabled #Ableism #FightAbleism #StopAbleism #Ableist
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I don't give a fuck, fuck you.
I'll care about YOUR gd friends and family, you cunts.
Anyway. Go read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.
Get a copy for some kid or teenager or young adults you know (of). JESUS CHRIST MAKE PARENTS AND CARERS READ IT.
Thing's from 2003 and still relevant, ow, my existence hurts.#book #books #Books2026 #Read #Reading #ReadingList #ToRead #FreedomToRead #story #stories #literature #kid #kids #Child #Children #ChildrensMentalHealth #ChildrensLiterature #Teen #Teens #Teenagers #autistic #AutisticJoy #Autism #AutismAwareness #AutismSpectrumDisorder #AutismSpectrumCondition #Asperger #disability #DisabilityDrivenDevelopment #DisabilityAwareness #Disabled #Ableism #FightAbleism #StopAbleism #Ableist
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I don't give a fuck, fuck you.
I'll care about YOUR gd friends and family, you cunts.
Anyway. Go read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.
Get a copy for some kid or teenager or young adults you know (of). JESUS CHRIST MAKE PARENTS AND CARERS READ IT.
Thing's from 2003 and still relevant, ow, my existence hurts.#book #books #Books2026 #Read #Reading #ReadingList #ToRead #FreedomToRead #story #stories #literature #kid #kids #Child #Children #ChildrensMentalHealth #ChildrensLiterature #Teen #Teens #Teenagers #autistic #AutisticJoy #Autism #AutismAwareness #AutismSpectrumDisorder #AutismSpectrumCondition #Asperger #disability #DisabilityDrivenDevelopment #DisabilityAwareness #Disabled #Ableism #FightAbleism #StopAbleism #Ableist
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#disabilitydrivendevelopment is a great idea and it makes me think about accessible training environments for those with mental illness, or are recovering from brain injury.
the internet enables remote work and it enables very low cost employee onboarding. there is no reason not to start any and all training environments someone could ask for.
and because it cost nothing to add them as a teammate there's no reason to kick people off. there's no incentive to kick people out just for not doing enough work.
just let people learn. make more remote training environments.
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What would it be like if we could make the work of healing, liberation, and restoration feel easier to people than the choice to continue enduring being oppressed?
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"Disability justice is rooted in interdependence and demands that systems, institutions, and our movements for liberation be accessible to all. Not from a place of charity, but from the recognition that people with disabilities hold a vision for our collective liberation that is often more nuanced and complete than many of us have."
(From Healing Justice Lineages, by Cara Page and Erica Woodland; emphasis is my own.)
Always delighted to run into more people in the world who recognize and are willing to name this truth!
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Been feeling pretty sick today, but had enough spoons to finish up a really rough first draft of something I'm very excited about.
My digital community toolkit now has the (very rudimentary) beginnings of the features to "teach" federated servers new types of content and new kinds of interactions. All consent-based, of course, so there's no real abuse potential to it, but lots of opportunities to play and explore and come up with new ways to hang out online together.
Hopefully I'll feel well enough to do a proper blog post about it soon!
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One of the core ideas of my SwitchBoard project is to enable very different types of software technology to work together smoothly.
Today I finished a basic example of my high-efficiency server, BitLadle, running a basic dynamic web site. The server and all the relevant "sticky" code are all in C++. The content is all built in C#.
And it just works.
Radical accessibility is cool.
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This effort to create a worker-operated courier platform in Ghana is such a wonderful example of the things I want from #DisabilityDrivenDevelopment in general:
https://platform.coop/blog/couriers-in-ghana-need-your-help/
People creating stuff, for themselves, because they want to.
Beautiful.
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This entire thread is a beautiful (read: horrifying) example of why I don't touch the F[L]OSS scene, even with 30 years of programming experience:
https://vt.social/@lina/113045455229442533
I publish all my work as public domain these days, but I have no interest in "open source" as a rallying banner or organizing ideology.
Because I remember what all the fights, debates, bullshit politics, and power plays were like three decades ago - the names have changed, the blatant refusal to care about real people and their interests has not.
Free/libre/open-source software never grew up, and at this point, I don't believe it ever will.
I chose to start #DisabilityDrivenDevelopment as a distinct concept for good reasons.
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Got some really cool quality-of-life features added to SwitchBoard today, and really loving the way they add to the experience.
Plus, this sets the stage for some super-slick live debugging tools I'm excited to start building.
This fall is going to be a lot of fun.
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Been playing around with some concept sketches/mockups...
Nothing functional or polished yet, but a little bit of a sneak peak of some things I've got going on:
https://spoonstack.org/mockups/spooncast/
It's time for a whole new approach to digital community.
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New SpoonStack Dev Blog is up! Introducing the BitLadle project - highly efficient, Disability-Driven server tech for the unrepresented masses:
https://spoonstack.org/devblog/2024/08/tech-notes-2024-08-03.html
Making cool online stuff shouldn't be reserved for a small handful of people with privilege, money, time, and/or skills. BitLadle is part of changing that.
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Really excited to write a dev blog about today's progress on my high-efficiency cross-platform server system.
Getting the same high-level service code backed by IOCP on Windows and io_uring on Linux feels really, really good.
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There's a fairly common story out there about how technologies (such as software) get created.
It's a total lie.
The actual source of technical innovation and power is not who we're told it is - and there are reasons for this false narrative.
But there's also immense hope in knowing the truth about how technology comes to be. The latest SpoonStack DevBlog explores this in depth:
https://spoonstack.org/devblog/2024/07/how-technology-really-gets-created.html
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I keep wanting to say stuff about my work that's too long to fit into a post here, and too technical/nerdy to feel "fitting" on my main blog at Starship Gender.
And so it's time to resolve that problem: https://spoonstack.org/devblog/2024/07/introducing-dev-blog/
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Seems like a fitting day for a tiny teaser...
This image is how I feel when I imagine a computer operating system entirely by and for disabled folx.
(Psst: even if you don't usually, be sure to check the alt text! Accessibility is rewarding for everybody.)
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Maybe it's just the insatiable compiler nerd in me, but either way, I am intensely excited about getting the first SwitchBoard recipes converted into working x64 machine code.
There're things on the horizon I haven't even alluded to here yet, but it's coming soon, and it's really fucking cool.
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Last night I realized I wrote my first online community platform (a simple discussion forum) over 20 years ago.
It was a nice reminder, because I decided a while ago that it's time to put two decades of industry experience in creating high-scale, sophisticated software to good use in the social space.
Tonight, I posted the first test post for my latest digital community project, and pulled it up in my web browser.
SpoonCast is coming. And it's going to be like nothing else out there.
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Way back - like literally more than 20 years ago - I was a huge demoscene nerd with serious aspirations in the realtime-raytracing arena.
I've written tiny raytracers several times since, mostly to do things like test out 3D math libraries, or compiler optimizations in my own homebrew programming tools; but I've never really poked at the tech much, not like the old days.
Today I added a raytracer core to Pictomancy and it's been a really wonderful reminder of what this entire venture is really about: just fucking having fun.
It's been a good day.
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I've been using a set of homebrew tools to publish my blog for a while now, but they were mostly just really temporary hacks.
Today I re-generated the bulk of the site using entirely Accessible-First Document tech for the first time. There's still some features to add and a lot of polish is needed on the tools themselves, but I'm proud of this progress!
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CW: SpoonStack update, long-ish, positive
The past several months, I've had some complicated life circumstances going on that severely exacerbated some of my worst disability struggles. That's a story that I may or may not get into some other time.
For now, the bad stuff is over, and I'm slowly, finally getting back to being able to do more with my life than just exist and try not to stop existing.
I wanted to celebrate the fact that I just pushed one of the most exciting commits I've made to SpoonStack code so far!
Relevant quote from the change notes:
"This will, someday, give us the ability to have a very powerful, scalable, robust, well-tested server infrastructure at the socket/networking layer, which offers easily-implemented services in less demanding/difficult languages than C++. We could even realistically implement entire servers as SwitchBoard recipes directly, all running off the core of BitLadle - world-class server tech available to a very wide audience to freely explore, experiment, and play with, without needing to learn the messy stuff in detail."
Expect much more in the future...
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One of the hardest parts of my own disability is the unpredictable, random spans of time where I simply collapse and cannot do much of anything.
Most of this past month has been like that. I'm still around - no small miracle considering I live alone and have no friends or contacts of any kind within a thousand mile radius - but that's about all I've been able to manage.
Unlike the past, I'm not trying desperately to get out of this crash, or feeling pushed to ignore it. That means I'm feeling the effects a lot more intensely in some ways. But it also means I'm actually recovering smoothly, which is an interesting new experience.
Today I'm a tiny bit better - or perhaps more accurately, a tiny bit less bad - but it's entirely possible I'll be worse again tomorrow.
So I'm having to learn entire new ways of thinking about how my projects unfold over time. No software is getting worked on right now, but this, too, is #DisabilityDrivenDevelopment in action.
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Today I've been trying to teach myself basic vector art tools so I can make icons for the SwitchBoard interface.
It's a rough start, but I got a "rename" icon in today, and I'm already excited about making this thing All Pretty.
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Any "revolutionary" or "radical" ideology or politics that formulates itself in terms of "the workers" is inherently incapable of creating true, complete liberation.
It is only by making sure we leave behind no one - e.g. those who cannot "work" - that we can truly all get free.
As long as the ill, infirm, disabled, weak, and unproductive remain an afterthought, we will all remain oppressed.
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The software interface tools I'm creating right now have a really cool approach, where the bulk of the work of creating an interface goes into describing how someone can interact with it.
From there, the system can automatically "reskin" that description into numerous actual interfaces, each of which can be customized in various ways.
Want the same code to instantly work as a terminal/console, a mouse/keyboard graphical app, a web page, or on a touchscreen?
No problem.
Designing for accessibility first and foremost is freakin powerful y'all.
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I've been spending a lot of time lately just doing small cleanup work on the SwitchBoard code. I know I've gushed about it before, but even well over a year after I left the software industry, I still find it delightful how free I am to just... sink time into making stuff good.
No meetings, no schedule negotiations, no pitch to "use a sprint on tech debt", no absurd rush to cram a bunch of "polish stories" into the last days before a release deadline.
#DisabilityDrivenDevelopment will create higher-quality tech than capitalism or "floss" because we encourage people to enjoy caring about doing good stuff.
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What if a federated content protocol didn't just send your posts to the network of servers... what if different, unrelated services could literally teach each other how to present and interact with your posts?
Stay tuned. It's coming.
(It'll be a while, I'm disabled as hell and it's a huge project, but it's coming lol.)
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I spent the morning dragging little "boxes" of data around on the screen and dropping them "into" pieces of code to run the code.
I legit think my next goal is to make little conveyor belts as a feature so entire sequences of code can be set up and kicked off together.
This is way too much fun. I've turned programming into playing Factorio.
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The more time I spend with alternatives to "Big Tech" platforms and products, the more absolutely convinced I am that an anti-ableist technology movement is going to radically alter everything about the digital world in the years ahead.
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As much as I wish they would, #tech will never #unionize because tech is overwhelmingly cishet, white, able-bodied, and male...
... all the sets of people most likely to be deeply culturally conditioned to believe strongly in individualism, personal exceptionalism, and meritocracy...
... and the least likely to actually understand (let alone want) actual solidarity, mutual support, or collective power.
The only real hope for the tech sector is to radically shift the creative power to very different people.
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Some random software project: develops awful, invasive, exploitative junk, but with an interface that isn't actively hostile
Fossbros: ugh why do people flock to that inferior shit
Me: laughs and goes back to building accessible-first development tools
The revolution is coming.