Instance directory: social.coop

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus)

Notes: https://substrate.dougbelshaw.com

Lawyer by day. Enthusiast of tech, infosec and video games by night (or when I'm procrastinating).
Twitter: TorontoWill

Personal: https://lib.reviews/ and other projects under the https://permacommons.org/ umbrella.

Professional: Programs @ Sovereign Tech Agency, Berlin. Previously Wikimedia (2008-2015), Freedom of the Press (2018-2025).

Opinions my own.

Executive Director of @spritely (but this is a personal account). I'm here to fix the Internet.
ActivityPub co-author, co-host of @fossandcrafts@octodon.social. Lisp sourceress, decentralized network architect, occasional Blender artist. she/her https://dustycloud.org/

Recently moved here from @cwebber@octodon.social

Lovely banner sketch by @juliaro https://mastodon.art/@juliaro/114489465896761273

Welcome social coder,

To this self benefit center,
Where we earn #socialweb.
Concept is simple..

Bring something of value,
Others make it grow,
You self-benefit,
Our synergies flow..

Commons 💕 unite!

Participate in our channels,
Reach out, embrace others,
Follow passions and dreams,
#Dreamwalk bright future,
To realize them..

Invest in #SX now!
Gift one 🪙 of #humanity,
Earn 🪙🪙 cts of #freedom..

💃🕺 #peopleverse shall rise!

CC BY-NC-SA,
Humane tech community.

Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team.
Previously UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, and Apple Human Interface guidelines. UX Director at Symbian, manager Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design San Francisco. Head of Product for two startups. Returned to Google to lead the Physical Web in Chrome and explore multiple UX research projects in Android. Left 2024, now advising part time.

mastodon.social: 2017-2022

Chronic lurker. Trained comparatist™️ turned data/ML person living in #Phoenix, #AZ, USA (Akimel O’odham and Piipaash land).

Into liberation, Sonora (the desert 🌵), tunes, little anarchisms, websites, indie games, database radicalization, dabbling, looking at art, ranked competitive taxonomization, pain au chocolat, informational rabbit holes, and @amostart most of all.

Cooperator, interpreter and translator, Linux user, fair-trader, cyclist, single dad, not necessarily in that order.