Chazona Baum

@chazonabaum.com

Customer advocate => SWE | Engineering leader, building sewing.club | Meetup organizer | Mom of two | Proud Puerto-Haitian | Sewing, gardening, cooking, gaming (video games, board games, TTRPGs) | Avatar: @reverentgeek.com

Standard Reader shows comments, but you can't post them. Now, it’s easier than ever to join the conversation: - Comment on the original publishing platform - Reply to the article’s Bluesky announcement, use your fave client - If no announcement, quote-post the article and tag the author

The dialog where you choose what platform to comment on

🧵 Blacksky is looking to buy a server for $30k USD. We'd like the following specs or better: - 384 GB RAM - 80 TB NVMe; ZFS RAIDZ2 in 2 vdevs - 1 Gbps + 10 Gpbs burstable - at least 84 threads for the CPU(s) - Ideally somewhere in the eastern half of North America but open to North America and EU

🔥 The Blacksky mobile app is here. Today we're opening up our public beta on both iOS and Android. If you've been waiting for a native mobile experience, now's your chance to try it before our full public launch and help us make it even better. 🧵👇

Show off your Github activity on Sifa 👩‍💻 ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛ We already showed your @tangled.org activity in your Sifa timeline, but now we also ingest and show Github activities for users that have verified their Github account.

Activity timelime from @gui.do showing an uncollapsed block or 3 merged PRs and a second block on the bottom with 17 merged PRs

The full pipeline of LLMs explained, excerpt from my video "I Built an LLM From Scratch"

Few people realize how much credibility they lose once it’s clear their writings and actions are output from ChatGPT and Claude. If you’re a leader who uses AI in such a noticeable manner (and people notice even if you think they don’t), it’s shooting yourself in the worst way possible.

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HTML Day comes to Hampton Roads! @chazonabaum.com, Austin Galyon, and I are hosting a freewrite: just you, a text editor, and HTML. Beginners welcome, handwritten code encouraged, leave with something you can put online. Details in next post!

We brought back a rewritten version of the scene, which they killed, and then another, which they killed, and finally they said "Guys, when I'm at a restaurant, and I don't like the soup and send it back, I don't want them to keep bringing back the same soup with changes ..." 3/x

Reflecting on a conversation with my students about AI in teaching. The promise of AI is infinite productivity, at infinite speed. But the implicit promise of teaching is that an expert will give you some of their very *finite* time. You are important enough that your instructor will incur a loss.

Intermezzo: The Organisational Dysfunction of the Day series is becoming a book. 63+ dysfunctions explained through Open Systems Theory — why they keep happening and what the structure underneath them is. Launching July 2026. Follow along on Leanpub. #opensystemstheory #sociotechnical #agile

Organisational Dysfunctions

A catalogue of organisational dysfunctions explained through Open Systems Theory. For everyone who has felt the friction of broken structures but lacked the language for it.

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