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Brooklyn Zelenka
@expede.wtf
🇨🇦 Vancouver

💍 @katiewilde.com
🏢 @inkandswitch.com
🎟️ @ucan.xyz

🔰 Always learning
🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic as heck
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights
✊ BLM & Land Back
🤝 United we stand, divided we fall

📝 notes.brooklynzelenka.com
👩🏼‍💻 github.com/expede
🐘 types.pl/@expede
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We've got two lightning talks confirmed for next weeks London event: Building new tools for Science

* Agnes Cameron will tell us about Malleable Knitting Software
* Adewale Oshineye will share GeistFabrik, a Python-based divergence engine for Obsidian vaults.

~10 spots left if you want to join
Ink & Switch London: Building new tools for Science · Luma
Ink & Switch's mission is to help computers become better tools for thought. We believe that the promise of computers as "intelligence amplifiers" or "bicycles…
luma.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
🚀🚀🚀 I'm doin' a signal boost!

I just met Vanessa, an early-career dev with great energy looking for work! Interested in games and webdev, and working on a PS1-style game in her spare time. (Contact info is on her website)

👀 queenofsquiggles.codeberg.page
Queen Of Squiggles's Blog
queenofsquiggles.codeberg.page
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Ink & Switch is hosting another Social in London on Nov. 11th at the Alan Turing Institute. I'll share some early scientific work in Patchwork, & Marcel will give a peek at the Playbook programmable ink system. Also, lightning talks about "surprises in software".

RSVP here: luma.com/71g0lhgo
Ink & Switch London: Building new tools for Science · Luma
Ink & Switch's mission is to help computers become better tools for thought. We believe that the promise of computers as "intelligence amplifiers" or "bicycles…
luma.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Thanks to everyone that attended the community call today!

🍿 For those that couldn't make it, here's the recording featuring @patternist.xyz, @nikgraf.bsky.social, @daffl.xyz, @spiralganglion.com, and @seaofclouds.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwOw...
October 2025 Automerge Community Call
YouTube video by Automerge
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Join us this Wednesday for the Automerge Community Call ("Spoooooky Edition" 🎃👻)! Come find out about the latest updates, get some the behind-the-scenes of our shiny new website, and see some demos of what folks are building with Automerge!

📆 Event page: luma.com/acd77awg
October '25 Automerge Community Call (Spooky Edtion) · Luma
Get ready to raise the dead—er, data! Join us for the October '25 Automerge Community Call: Spooky Edition, where we’ll be digging up the freshest updates from…
luma.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I can't understate how good of a job the @inkandswitch.com folks did at this Automerge website. Wow, holy shit automerge.org

And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?

This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
Automerge
Automerge is a library for building collaborative, local-first applications.
automerge.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I love the last section of the ATmosphereConf announcement post:

> We Can Just Do Things.
> Together.
October 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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We have a shiny new website courtesy of @spiralganglion.com and @seaofclouds.com 🙌

🚀 Check it out: automerge.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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🎮 Like CRDTs and videogames? @inkandswitch.com is ✨hiring✨ for a project that combines @automerge.org with @godotengine.org to make the next generation of collaboration tools for game development!

More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-i...

(Fully remote 🌍🌎🌏 contract, late Nov to April)
Godot IDE Engineer
Help build native, visual version control for collaborative game development in Godot
inkandswitch.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Join us tomorrow for the ✨🎃October UCAN Community Call 🎟️✨ luma.com/a96oxz0w
UCAN Community Call · Luma
🎉 It’s time for another UCAN Community Call! Join the core team, implementers, and friends for a lively hour of updates, open discussion, and all the latest…
luma.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
October 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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It took almost two years…! The Fugue paper that @mweidner.bsky.social and I wrote about interleaving in collaborative text editing algorithms was finally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

paywalled: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
free: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583
The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
Most existing algorithms for replicated lists, which are widely used in collaborative text editors, suffer from a problem: when two users concurrently insert text at the same position in the document,...
arxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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It's that time again: ✨we’re hiring✨

We're looking for a @godotengine.org IDE Engineer to help us build the next generation of collaboration tools inside the engine itself! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer

(Remote role 🌍🌎🌏)
Godot IDE Engineer
Help build native, visual version control for collaborative game development in Godot
inkandswitch.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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use a debugger stat!
November 15, 2024 at 1:05 PM
As we all know, when two women love each other very much they... start adopting more cats! Say hi to Luna 🐈‍⬛✨ She's possibly the cuddliest kitten I've ever met, & purrs loudly + gives headbutts whenever she's picked up 😻

Luna was adopted via VOKRA (www.vokra.ca) who were great the whole way through
September 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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It's pretty cool that Ink & Switch is contributing to this big ARIA programme now. We get two big things out of it: funding (obviously) but also a community of fascinating creators and problems to connect with. I'm learning all about the UK power grid this week.
www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/d...
ARIA Safeguarded AI Programme, new faces, and a splattering of ink lab notes
Peter, our lab director, will announce a major new initiative. You’ll hear about two researchers who have recently joined our staff. Finally, we’ve got a collection of lab notes about Programmable Ink...
www.inkandswitch.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Welcome to the capabilities family, @cloudflare.social! Awesome to see capabilities finding adoption in lots of places 🚀✨
I don't have a problem with making new RPC systems! I can stop any time I want! But I don't want to. So I made a new one for you. It's called Cap'n Web. It's like Cap'n Proto RPC, except focused on working great in browsers and JavaScript/TypeScript servers. blog.cloudflare.com/capnweb-java...
September 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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There is a lot of demand for digital privacy and security advice out there right now and lots of people are giving advice and writing guides. I beg them to do a few things:

1. Be explicit about the threat model your advice is meant for.
September 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The rate has increased: now at 6 families asking for info on leaving the USA for Canada so far *this week*. (Probably should start turning the random list of links into a more public resource)
September 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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There is no thriving #Haskell community without its members of the LGBT community, and on that there cannot be any compromise.
September 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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😲 We have a ✨packed✨ agenda for the September edition of the Automerge Community Call on the 24th! Updates & talks featuring @chee.party, @daffl.me, @spiralganglion.com, @seaofclouds.com, @patternist.xyz, @expede.wtf, and John Mumm! Don't miss out — RSVP here: luma.com/70fuozje
Sept '25 Automerge Community Call · Luma
🍂 September Automerge Call ✨ Get ready to kick off the fall with the Sept '25 Automerge Community Call! Whether you’re a seasoned contributor, a curious…
luma.com
September 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.”

So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.
September 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Hope everyone had a great summer! The next of our regularly scheduled UCAN community calls is ✨NEXT WEEK✨

Come join and hear about what the community has cooking 🍳 🎟️

luma.com/5w2nmut6
UCAN Community Call · Luma
🎉 It’s time for another UCAN Community Call! Join the core team, implementers, and friends for a lively hour of updates, open discussion, and all the latest…
luma.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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If you are in Vancouver, Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos of "Every Frame A Painting" is having a FREE event called "Where Is Jokes? A Guide to Visual Comedy" at the Beaumont Studios on September 24! Doors open at 6:30 pm, lecture is 7-8 pm, then it's drinks and mingling
filmable.ca/events/2025/...
September 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM