Chris Wiegman @chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com

#introduction

Hello from yet another new instance as I look for a personal place I can archive my content.

I'm a software engineer working on WordPress with an emphasis on #privacy, #ethics, #OpenSource and the #openweb.

Historically I've been a pilot, musician, teacher and about 1,000 other things.

If any of this interests you, let's chat!

If I'm honest, the single biggest reason I left aviation at all was what I called at the time "macho crap" but, as I learned more was really just blatant sexism and racism throughout the industry. Thankfully the recession made it easy for me to not just leave a single company there but an entire industry.

...though, as we all know, tech isn't much better in hindsight (still seems like though in comparison)

an agency that blamed their employees for everything including resorting to racism

And a university that was really only part of the school as a financial cover. When presented with choices like privacy they literally laughed at doing the right thing.

Some of my greatest hits:

An airline that had its pilots beat up and treated them all like absolute shit simply for the LOLs

A jet operator that sued me for quitting after bragging he wouldn't uphold his end of a training contract. That one was so bad that the jr lawyer on my case quit law after

Open source companies who's idea of open source was to just say it enough and hope the community would hear them

Quitting a job for moral issues is not an easy thing to do. Take it from someone who's done it multiple times and is only still an employee at all because I'm in the US and need healthcare.

What a thoroughly fucked up society.

*FTR: Yes, I'm really bad, historically, at picking companies though I feel like the current one is at least a few steps above the rest.

Oh how I can't wait until Tor moves to FF >= 73 as a base. The default zoom makes so much of a difference

It is so hard to leave Google completely behind when using its services is a hard requirement both for work and for nearly every project and organization you come in contact with.

My evening is being spent planning for the time when we need to escape this country. Go bags, contacts in, mostly, Canada, etc. The time where this will be necessary seems to be rapidly approaching.

I think my cat, Pele, loves the music of Tide Lines. Whenever I play of of their albums she immediately comes over and falls asleep on the chair in this room.

A personal project is never done until you turn up the TTL on the domain you're using for it.