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Author here. Thank you for liking this. One of the most amusing things is that doing this zany visuals/detailed writeups/unabashed character in my writing actua

by xena 3y ago

Author here. Thank you for liking this. One of the most amusing things is that doing this zany visuals/detailed writeups/unabashed character in my writing actually makes me more impressive to future employers than any sterile LinkedIn posts ever will. I estimate that at this point if I wanted to get hired I could literally post a banger like this, add a banner to it halfway in that says "by the way, I'm looking for gainful employment, if you want someone doing DevRel that writes like this and gives talks like [link], please get in contact" and I could probably get a job in a week or two. I want to keep hacker culture alive by not accepting the gentrification of it. Hacker culture is queer, neurodiverse, furry, weaboo, and more. As a philosopher of the arts, that is the kind of culture I want to create more of. Not platitudes on LinkedIn. I want to create the kind of culture that celebrates art for the sake of art. I may be "cringe", but I am free.

KaiserPro 3y ago
I am totally going to start putting cartoon section summaries in my technical docs.
- xena 3y ago
  Here's the secret for why my cartoon dialogues work so well: I use the Socratic method. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34461459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34461459
  - loeg 3y ago
    FWIW, I don't think they work well.
sneak 3y ago
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- xena 3y ago
  I’m sorry to hear that you felt offended by the cartoon shark in the article about programming. I understand that you may have different preferences and expectations for the content you consume. However, I hope you can also respect my creative choices and freedom of expression. I am not obligated to cater to your personal tastes or opinions, especially when I am providing my content to the world for free. I appreciate your feedback, but I also ask you to be more considerate and respectful of other readers who may enjoy my work. Thank you. I would ask you to perform self-reflection to ascertain as to why the cartoon shark discomforts you. You may want to sit with that discomfort to understand why you feel that way so you can hopefully move past that and towards a more peaceful future. There are a number of logical fallacies being presented in your assertions, however I don't feel like I need to spend the time to pick them apart. Be well,
  - chrsig 3y ago
    > I is not obligated to cater to your personal tastes or opinions, especially when I am providing my content to the world for free. I don't believe OP asserted anything to the contrary, could you highlight where you inferred that? > I appreciate your feedback, but I also ask you to be more considerate and respectful of other readers who may enjoy my work. It would be helpful if you would be willing to expand on how you found the OPs statements disrespectful or inconsiderate.
    - soft_dev_person 3y ago
      sneak wanted OP to be less openly queer in their personal blog for their own comfort, due to their own inability to imagine that the subculture OP is part of is more than their own narrow definition of it. I guess the disrespect is clearer when one has grown up with its many forms, but assuming your request for more context comes out of a sincere desire to increase your understanding, I hope this helped.
      - chrsig 3y ago
        > assuming your request for more context comes out of a sincere desire to increase your understanding, I hope this helped. I appreciate the benefit of the doubt -- I was trying to approach it with the assumption that there's probably some perspective that I wasn't aware of. > sneak wanted OP to be less openly queer in their personal blog for their own comfort I can see how it may be interpreted that way. To me it read more like "hey, great content, presentation of it wasn't for me" in a way to convey feedback in the event the author wanted to better capture their attention. I didn't get the sense that there was an expectation that the author change their writing style to accommodate their preferences. re-reading this, I don't think I appreciated that it was really in defense of the readers rather than the content > I also ask you to be more considerate and respectful of other readers who may enjoy my work I'm surmising that the real problem statement is: > I'm sure there are non-sexual furries but the subculture is primarily a sexual one (same as with BDSM) which I can appreciate as a generalization, I suppose I wouldn't have personally considered furries as under the queer umbrella, but I'm certainly no voice of authority on the matter. I suppose there's also the possibility that 'furries' was a dog whistle for 'queer', and being less charitable to sneak, I could better understand finding disrespect in the post.
- proto_lambda 3y ago
  Leaving aside the "furry == sexual" connotations: > It overshadows the content Only if you make it. Relax. What someone is wearing or what innocent pictures they put alongside their presentation does not necessarily have to concern you at all. Just ignore it and focus on the actual subject matter.
isoprophlex 3y ago
> I may be "cringe", but I am free. Words to live by, words to die for. Please keep posting bangers!

by xena 3y ago

KaiserPro 3y ago

I am totally going to start putting cartoon section summaries in my technical docs.

xena 3y ago
Here's the secret for why my cartoon dialogues work so well: I use the Socratic method. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34461459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34461459
- loeg 3y ago
  FWIW, I don't think they work well.

sneak 3y ago

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xena 3y ago
I’m sorry to hear that you felt offended by the cartoon shark in the article about programming. I understand that you may have different preferences and expectations for the content you consume. However, I hope you can also respect my creative choices and freedom of expression. I am not obligated to cater to your personal tastes or opinions, especially when I am providing my content to the world for free. I appreciate your feedback, but I also ask you to be more considerate and respectful of other readers who may enjoy my work. Thank you. I would ask you to perform self-reflection to ascertain as to why the cartoon shark discomforts you. You may want to sit with that discomfort to understand why you feel that way so you can hopefully move past that and towards a more peaceful future. There are a number of logical fallacies being presented in your assertions, however I don't feel like I need to spend the time to pick them apart. Be well,
- chrsig 3y ago
  > I is not obligated to cater to your personal tastes or opinions, especially when I am providing my content to the world for free. I don't believe OP asserted anything to the contrary, could you highlight where you inferred that? > I appreciate your feedback, but I also ask you to be more considerate and respectful of other readers who may enjoy my work. It would be helpful if you would be willing to expand on how you found the OPs statements disrespectful or inconsiderate.
  - soft_dev_person 3y ago
    sneak wanted OP to be less openly queer in their personal blog for their own comfort, due to their own inability to imagine that the subculture OP is part of is more than their own narrow definition of it. I guess the disrespect is clearer when one has grown up with its many forms, but assuming your request for more context comes out of a sincere desire to increase your understanding, I hope this helped.
    - chrsig 3y ago
      > assuming your request for more context comes out of a sincere desire to increase your understanding, I hope this helped. I appreciate the benefit of the doubt -- I was trying to approach it with the assumption that there's probably some perspective that I wasn't aware of. > sneak wanted OP to be less openly queer in their personal blog for their own comfort I can see how it may be interpreted that way. To me it read more like "hey, great content, presentation of it wasn't for me" in a way to convey feedback in the event the author wanted to better capture their attention. I didn't get the sense that there was an expectation that the author change their writing style to accommodate their preferences. re-reading this, I don't think I appreciated that it was really in defense of the readers rather than the content > I also ask you to be more considerate and respectful of other readers who may enjoy my work I'm surmising that the real problem statement is: > I'm sure there are non-sexual furries but the subculture is primarily a sexual one (same as with BDSM) which I can appreciate as a generalization, I suppose I wouldn't have personally considered furries as under the queer umbrella, but I'm certainly no voice of authority on the matter. I suppose there's also the possibility that 'furries' was a dog whistle for 'queer', and being less charitable to sneak, I could better understand finding disrespect in the post.
proto_lambda 3y ago
Leaving aside the "furry == sexual" connotations: > It overshadows the content Only if you make it. Relax. What someone is wearing or what innocent pictures they put alongside their presentation does not necessarily have to concern you at all. Just ignore it and focus on the actual subject matter.

isoprophlex 3y ago

> I may be "cringe", but I am free. Words to live by, words to die for. Please keep posting bangers!