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 did my very first beta release of Signal for Desktop! Meaningless to most, I suspect, but meaningful to me.

(If you're not already trying out our betas: https://support.signal.org/hc/articles/360007318471-Signal-Beta)

"COVID-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says" https://www.wbur.org/npr/996284927/covid-19-was-a-preventable-disaster-who-ordered-report-states

#covid #WHO

"100% of the code we write is going to be wrong -- we just don't know when!" https://www.worldofbs.com/decoupled-software/

#SoftwareDevelopment #programming #coding

Just published "floc-block", a small npm package to help Express.js developers block Google's FLoC tracking: https://gitlab.com/EvanHahn/floc-block

And if you'd rather not install another tiny third-party module, I also wrote a quick guide showing how to do it yourself: https://evanhahn.com/block-googles-floc-tracking-with-express

#CleanUpTheWeb #FlocOffGoogle #Google #tracking

"Google Blocks Advertisers from Targeting Black Lives Matter YouTube Videos" https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2021/04/09/google-blocks-advertisers-from-targeting-black-lives-matter-youtube-videos

#Google #BLM #YouTube #ads

"Asking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over youtube-dl takedown demand" https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/oct/26/microsoft-github-riaa-youtube-dl/

#Microsoft #YouTubeDL #copyright

"...the less you know about something, the less value it has to you, and the easier it is to destroy. And by easy, I mean: guiltlessly, remorselessly, foolishly, even righteously." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/12/western-worldyour-civilisation-killing-life-on-earth-indigenous-amazon-planet

#ClimateChange #AmazonRainforest #indigenous

This article changed my opinion about individual climate change action: “All That Performative Environmentalism Adds Up” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/your-tote-bag-can-make-difference/615817/

#ClimateChange #TheAtlantic #environmentalism #activism

TIME wrote an article about where I work https://time.com/5893114/signal-app-privacy/

#Signal #privacy #protests #ACAB

Just took 5 minutes to call my senators about the Supreme Court. Sunrise Movement made it easy: https://sunrisemovement.org/scotus

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #SunriseMovement

"Such under-the-radar PR efforts underscore the [pharma] industry’s determination to protect its pricing power in an era when expensive new drug therapies are increasingly under fire for their role in soaring U.S. healthcare costs." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drugpricing-lobbying-special-repo-idUSKBN2621IQ

#BigPharma #health #lobbying #Reuters

"How to Actually Get Your Vote Counted in This Hellscape of an Election" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ayp9p/how-to-get-your-vote-counted-2020-general-election

#USPol #voting #VotingRights

"This Crisis Team Has Handled Mental Health Calls Without Cops for 30 Years" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkywg7/this-crisis-team-has-handled-mental-health-calls-without-toronto-cops-for-30-years

(The article says they "may, rarely, involve the police", but the spirit of the headline stands.)

#policing #MentalHealth #cops

Just finished my first week on the Desktop team for #Signal (the messaging app)!

"I’m here to prove that operating as a non-profit is viable, better for everyone involved, and should be the default way to do business." https://ziglang.org/news/announcing-zig-software-foundation.html

#nonprofits #capitalism #Zig #ZigLang