Evan Hahn @EvanHahn@bigshoulders.city

👋 #introductions

I'm a software developer living in a haunted mansion in Chicago. I'm originally from Silicon Valley, a fact that I am both proud and ashamed of.

My pronouns are he/him/his; my website is evanhahn.com; my musical taste is embarrassing.

Just published "Gotchas with Express query parsing (and how to avoid them)" https://evanhahn.com/gotchas-with-express-query-parsing-and-how-to-avoid-them/

#Express #Node #NodeJS #JavaScript #programming

The ClimateAction.tech Pledge, a #ClimateStrike pledge for tech folks like me: https://pledge.climateaction.tech/

#ClimateAction #ClimateChange #programming #tech

"HQ→CO2 juxtaposes random pairs of images: the headquarters of high-emissions fossil fuel companies, and places around the world being affected by global warming." https://hqco2.org/

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #companies #CO2 #emissions #ClimateScience

"Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer" https://localghost.dev/2019/09/everything-i-googled-in-a-week-as-a-professional-software-engineer/

#programming #software #learning

"Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system" by @nolan https://nolanlawson.com/2018/08/31/mastodon-and-the-challenges-of-abuse-in-a-federated-system/

I am the only user on bigshoulders.city and I have no interests

I agree with @fdroidorg's stance that software should do its best not to be neutral https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

It is proven! I am evanhahn on Keybase: https://keybase.io/evanhahn/sigchain#513f38dafdfb3f706c39483f5076c4771e7f3619f5f98a2e8637ee49ee0f50ec0f

"Simple Design Changes Could Make YouTube Better for the Planet, Researchers Say" https://earther.gizmodo.com/1834581507

#ClimateChange #YouTube #Google #software

"Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side" https://www.fastcompany.com/90369697/googles-new-recaptcha-has-a-dark-side

#Google #privacy #CAPTCHA #reCAPTCHA

As someone who wants the #USA to switch to the #metric system, I enjoyed "the real reasons the US refuses to go metric" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbdx2nOQKKo

"Gender Stereotypes Banned in British Advertising" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/style/uk-gender-stereotype-ads-ban.html

#NYTimes #gender #stereotypes #ads

me after 10 minutes on Mastodon :)

me after 10 seconds on Twitter :(

Just upvoted @Mastodon on #ProductHunt for visibility. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mastodon-single-column-layout

Have you been able to convince people to join the #Fediverse? If so, how?

I ask because I want everyone to leave birdsite/etc and join a federated social network, and I want effective ways to ask.

Just scanned through the #introductions hashtag. More than half of the people I scrolled past self-identified as queer. I like this