I love what I do… I just wish I was smarter and better at it

I especially don’t mind when the language I’m working with feels natural, intuitive and relatively simple. For me, being able to code is a key - to unlocking almost anything. You can do it to make money… or to change the world. It’s the latter that drives me, but I totally understand why people would want to do it as a job in order to pursue other things they love.

My problem is that I see this as OR and not XOR. I’m making money and changing the world, and I sometimes wonder if I’m helping change the world for the worse.

This is why I started getting involved with the new Gemini Protocol and started providing hosting at gemini://tanelorn.city. I wanted to do something unambiguously good with my skills.

I hope not Matthew!

So do I, but I think that’s the problem inherent in our work. The tech industry arose out of the military-industrial complex and never really broke free. I’m just glad I don’t work for a FAANG corp or Palantir.

Otherwise, it might be time to start asking, “What would Cecil Harvey do?”

Nice, Gemini looks interesting

Thanks. It wasn’t my idea, but I’d love to see it take flight. It seems obvious that the World Wide Web is leaving its human-centric and document-centric roots behind, and if ordinary people are to continue to have platforms and voices of their own that aren’t owned and controlled by corporate interests, they’ll need a platform that isn’t the web.