Communities in Code

I initiated a digital semi-break starting on the Friday before (American) Thanksgiving, but then this nifty tool, izzzzi.net, popped up, and I made a brief exception — not a breach, not a betrayal, just a matter of curiosity leading the way. The flourishing of code that encourages community amid a community in which software is a core component — well, that is a very specific place where my head (which is to say: my writing) happens to be at right now (alternative firmware, reciprocal repositories, gardens of forks), so the public announcement of izzzzi was especially well-timed for the current resting state of my receptors. I’m digging izzzzi plenty, both conceptually and practically. I’m not totally offline at the moment, but I have muted much of my digital social life for the remainder of 2024, with izzzzi now included in that self-imposed pause. I’ll be back at it sometime during the first week or so of 2025.