Evan Hahn @EvanHahn@bigshoulders.city
I'm a programmer who loves a good panini
Joined Aug 2018
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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.
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A new report from @FinancialTimes says "When you visit WebMD & enter your stuffy nose & sore throat into its 'symptom finder,' & then get a diagnosis (it's lupus!), [ad platforms including] Facebook, thanks to a data-sharing agreement, know about it." https://mashable.com/article/google-facebook-tracking-online-health-activity-webmd/
"I too used to believe that these tech giants were all-knowing entities [who can predict and manipulate our behaviour with ads]. But while writing this story, I have come to realise that this belief is as wrong as it is popular." https://thecorrespondent.com/100/13228924500-22d5fd24
“I’ve always felt that one of the least interesting things for a wine writer to do is to try to describe how a wine tastes. I feel that even more strongly now.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/reader-center/wine-industry-climate-change.html
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Ring (the Amazon surveillance device) used video captured on Halloween for PR
https://mashable.com/article/ring-halloween-surveillance/?europe=true
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EmacsConf 2019 is tomorrow. Even if a conference about Emacs doesn't seem like your thing, it's worth taking a look at how it's being put on.
It's 100% remote, all talks are live streamed, live transcriptions are posted to IRC. Audience questions are taken from a different IRC channel.
It's the conference version of "everybody dials in." I'd like to see more conferences put on this way.
The letter sent from #Facebook employees about "paid civic misinformation" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-letter.html
iOS app review: @tootapp is very good and @WAHa_06x36 did a very good job
How many front-end developers use a browser made by Google, a framework made by Facebook, a computer made by Apple, and code hosting on a product owned by Microsoft?
"Barr Pushes Facebook for Access to WhatsApp Messages" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/politics/barr-whatsapp-facebook-encryption.html
PSA, you can donate money to #Signal https://signal.org/donate/
HAPPY SPOOKY MONTH
"Five reasons people are not engaging with climate change and what to do about it"
https://medium.com/@julian.harris/five-reasons-people-are-not-engaging-with-climate-change-and-what-to-do-about-it-8811223ccbd1
"Athletes turn to plant-based and vegan diets to gain edge in a growing sports world trend", including Tom Brady https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2019/08/08/vegan-plant-based-diets-take-over-sports-world-alex-morgan-tom-brady/1921383001/
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According to the-federation.info the #fediverse has crossed 3 million registered users (and this is excluding Gab)
Yesterday, I made myself queasy trying to write HTML on my phone in the Lyft
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/
The ClimateAction.tech Pledge, a #ClimateStrike pledge for tech folks like me: https://pledge.climateaction.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/
"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'm a programmer who loves a good panini
Joined Aug 2018
