Olu @[email protected]

Hey! 👋🏿

I'm Olu, based in London/UK, been a web developer since 2016. Love JavaScript.

Looking for my next #frontend #developer role! Must be #remote, I'm really interested in #accessibility, maintainability and #ethical, impactful work.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/oluniyiawosusi
https://olu.online

Please boost :)

#getFediHired #jobs #hiring #tooManyHashtags

And I'm now looking for a collaboration/internship for next summer! If you maintain a charting library (like @observablehq's Plot) or you're in a setting like data journalism or a viz design studio, please reach out.

I want to take our project to the next level alongside a team!

An accessible HTML version of our paper is here, for those that want to dig in.

This project was in collaboration with Lucas Nadolskis and @dom here at @cmuhcii

https://www.frank.computer/data-navigator/

Hi folks! I'm announcing my latest project, Data Navigator!

I've been frustrated these past few years with all of the problems that visualization toolkits face making their visualizations more accessible. I built a tool that I hope will help.

Read more: https://www.frank.computer/blog/2023/09/introducing-data-navigator.html

Can I ask a favour?

I’ve been working on and off for the last year on an app to help people with adhd set and work toward their goals.

It’s launching 1st October for free!

Ways you can help:

1. Go follow the Instagram https://instagram.com/cammi.app

2. Consider supporting the project on Patreon from £1 p/m on https://patreon.com/neuropreneurs

3. Spread the word. If you know someone with adhd or someone who would benefit from setting goals then please tell them about Cammi 😊

Wanting attention is quite honestly one of the most basic of human needs so why anyone tries to shame someone for doing something in order to get attention is a bit asinine.

Virtually everything we do socially is for attention. The question is what kind of attention is sought.

About 3,000 were killed on September 11. We still talk about it every single year.

The other day, an estimated 18,000-20,000 people were killed by oil and gas corporations through climate change and almost nobody I know has even heard about it.

18,000-20,000 people.

From a single flood.

I know we are all numb, now, but 18,000 to 20,000 people just died in a SINGLE climate event.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/libya-flood-survivors-pick-through-ruins-search-missing-thousands-2023-09-14/

#ClimateChange

The more I wrestle with #p2p stuff, especially from a lens of trying to remove the need for explicit pubs, the more I realize that this industry fights so hard for centralization and surveillance.

I've considered scrapping my projects because I don't want to add yet another tool that enables child porn distribution or encourages cryptocurrency shills to mine to distribute their content. And that requires some compromises in potentially what kind of metadata can be added (if any) and requires something computers deem to be difficult to quantify: trust.

Probably good I don't have my laptop lol

@ProPublica needs a new full-stack Senior Product Developer to help improve how the best investigative nonprofit journalism in the country gets published.

We can't pay like a Big Tech company, but it's a great place to work and you get to have direct impact on how people interact with our journalism. We're also still small enough where your thoughts and opinions on how things should work really matter!

https://boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4272524006?gh_src=a647272d6us

Can we get a solarpunk rival to burning man, where people congregate to permanently upgrade civic infrastructure somewhere instead? Like a convention of hippy nerds going door to door offering to install free insulation, guerilla gardening on empty lots, repairing derelict houses, running volunteer transit, hosting pop-up pay-what-you-can grocers and restaurants.. something that revels in _mattering_ instead of "leaving no trace" (but at exorbitant cost)

@gerrymcgovern thanks for this awesome roundup of stats. the only bit i think i pause on is who is the "we" here? doesn't the amount big 5 tech companies produce and store against without our knowledge absolutely dwarf anything any individual holds? it strikes me that the people reading this are probably not the problem. for example: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/26/tinder-personal-data-dating-app-messages-hacked-sold

We have a Venmo account to support the workers at https://account.venmo.com/u/CfAWorkersSolidarity

Myself, along with almost 40 other workers (a large amount of @cfaworkers), were laid off from Code for America. Instead of working with workers to get a union contract, they gutted our stances. AFAIK, we will be getting COBRA covered until November 2023 and one month of severance.

The workers wrote the following: https://cfaworkersunited.com/stories/2023/08/31/code-for-america-lays-off-35-colleagues

I desperately need a draft feature.

How else can I store my extra funny thoughts that I can't post until the dopamine from my previously extra funny thought wears off?

why is an orange not that appealing but the single slice of orange in a cocktail is like the worlds most desirable foodstuff