Straight out of undergrad, I applied to a bookselling job and didn’t get it, so I started working in tech. By the end of my first year there, I was| erinkissane.com
I’ve been working on communication and community online for a couple of decades, but the past few years have shaken up my understanding of what| erinkissane.com
Life after Twitter remains, well, weird. Maybe this is better.| ethanmarcotte.com
On the social internet, people who have used the biggest platforms and networks enter new ones expecting to find ~standard affordances *and* expecting that familiar interface cues will map to familiar affordances. When newer systems and tools confound those expectations, people get, *at best*, confused. At worst, they try to walk across a solid-looking but sink-into-able surface and get stuck in a bog.| erinkissane.com
Grief is weird in the nineteenth-century sense, uncanny and otherworldly; it eats words and turns up every card blank. Two years ago, I left the| erinkissane.com
I’m concerned about what the Twitter/Mastodon debate means for the webdev community at large. Have we split ourselves in two?| keithjgrant.com