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Brands I Boycott and Why

An ever-evolving list of brands I boycott and why as well as the last date I supported them. I'll continue to update this list as I learn more and detach myself from the firm grip of big tech and corporatism.

I recognise, as a tech worker, that we've created quite the hydra, so detaching ourselves becomes much more complicated than it ever should be. I also recognise that like the capitalistic umbrella tech operates under, we are somewhat stuck using certain technologies (for example, I am writing this here on GitHub, which refuses to drop ICE as a contract.).

I am not perfect and recognise this can be seen as moralistic. I am doing this to share information that may help influence your decisions. They may not. That's up for you to decide.

My hope is to encourage everyone to be more thoughtful in how they vote with their wallets.

Helpful Websites

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Hey y’all Brittany Packnett Cunningham at @mspackyetti here.

I normally don’t do this direct to camera thing, but I think that something is happening that we need to fix before it goes too far. And that thing is some confusion around what it appears black out Tuesday was meant to be. So I got on my Instagram feed this morning, and I saw that almost everybody that I was following had put up a picture of just Black. A lot of those people were my Black friends - friends who are activists, organizers, or just Black people who are feeling this at every moment, and they’re the voices that everyone needs to be hearing from. If you are Black and you posted that Black picture as a show of solidarity but your plan was always to post whatever you were going to post anyway today - either about this situation or your joy or your happiness or your frustration, whatever it is - then ignore this. People need to see all of those messages coming from Black people because us being full human beings is in and of itself an act

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Welcome to Part II

You are reading Part II of a IV part series. Part I: What is a static site generator? Part II: Installation/Structure 👈🏽 You are here Part III: Basic Customisation (coming soon) Part IV: Advanced Customisation (coming soon) If you are confused or in need of context, please go read Part I—it is where I establish all the context of what static site generators are.

As much as possible, I'm going to treat this part of the tutorial like a cookbook, except I won't make you read seven paragraphs about that one summer I spent in Emilia Romagna rolling the perfect tortellini as I had a torrid tryst with Paolo (sorry, reading too many romance novels).

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Speaker Rider

by Tatiana Mac

Last updated 14 April 2021

What is a speaker rider?

As speaking comes with immense privilege, I have crafted a speaker rider to set expectations and boundaries around my engagement. I am grateful to all the conference organisers who have brilliantly hosted me. I would love to continue to exercise this privilege to speak at conferences, and use this privilege to make the landscape more accessible and beneficial to tech's most historically excluded and marginalised communities.

Considerations

😫 I provide a lot of explanations for those of you who never had to consider these things. Most thoughtful conferences I've attended check most of these boxes intrinsically, particularly when conference runners are experienced speakers. They get it.

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	&ldquo;I tend to lose track of time 
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