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Ok, here’s the deal. Tweet your personal website plan with the hashtag #newwwyear (thanks @jamiemchale!): 1) When will you start? 2) What will you try to accomplish? 3) When is your deadline? Improve an existing site. Start a new one. Burn one down & start over. It’s up to you.

I know some folks say it is too early to talk about gun reform after gun deaths, but is it too early after Atlanta airport/Amtrak train to talk about taking the $1.5 Trillion going for tax cuts for the wealthy and using that instead for infrastructure improvements in America?

AIM: dead. ICQ: dead. MSN: dead. Y! chat: dead. Google XMPP/Jabber: dead. IRC survived. Remember that.

I am pretty upset with my employer, @mozilla, today #yallhands

But for me the realization of what @wycats is now calling “@fantasai’s axiom” (why should it feel any different not to be an employee of a specific organization?) was an epiphany for me 4 or 5 years ago. Everything else in @rustlang flowed from that.

It’s also important to recognize that being colleagues is a kind of privilege you have to actively push back against—you have levels of access to each other others don’t, and you can’t let that creep into special status.

Any artificial barrier will end up leaving talented and motivated people on the outside with no clear way to contribute. The idea that external "volunteers" won't do many of the things that paid contributors do is a commonly believed myth.

Yeah. The more a project resists using employment as a proxy for trust, the easier it is for contributors to level up to being trusted enough to take on a sensitive role like that.

I have had a hypothesis for a while that people confused "open" as meaning "transparency is the high-order bit." But it's not. The high-order bit is *collaboration*. (Transparency is necessary but insufficient.) It's "open doors" not "open curtains."

“Open by Identity” answers why: you simply do not draw a distinction between outside contributors and internal ones, they are all part of your team. Facilitating your teammate's work is part of your job, so of course you help each other. The how comes out of that motivation.

I’m in a meeting to design a Flexbox Inspector tool… do you have a complicated Flexbox layout someplace that we could look at?? What’s the URL? Also what do you need a Flexbox Inspector to do? When do you get stuck using Flexbox??