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Rizwana Akmal Khan

@rizwanakhan.com

🧠 a bucket of poetry/design/code | Senior Support Engineer @ ▲ | Running @batchbunch.dev

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Olu Niyi-Awosusi@olu.online · 3mo ago

who are your favourite creators/writers/artists/videographers/podcasters/etc at the intersection of technology and the rest of culture/society/ethics? looking for inspo, and ideally people i might not have heard of! i might make a list of people i enjoy/have heard of but we'll see lol

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Good managers aren't just meeting attenders & dashboard readers. They provide mentorship and career development, help balance and prioritize tasks, and make sure that all the individual work adds up to something valuable for the business. Warlords won't volunteer for any of those responsibilities!

Rizwana Akmal Khan@rizwanakhan.com · 9mo ago

Looking for companies in Nottingham willing to support @batchbunch.dev 12-month anniversary event 👀 I’m looking to organize a “boardgame” social/celebratory event (since our venue is a boardgame cafe..) to boost community bonding and mark this milestone, memorably.

Rizwana Akmal Khan@rizwanakhan.com · 10mo ago

making my debut speaking at an early morning meetup ☕️ i'm very much looking forward to meeting more folks in the nottingham tech community 💛

Notts Techfast@notts.techfa.st · 10mo ago

1 week today, Techfast returns with a talk from @rizwanakhan.com, who comes to talk about The Ripples From Pebbles Join us at 7:30am for a before-work talk, chat and breakfast event right in the heart of Nottingham at the CGI offices. www.meetup.com/notts-techfa...

Batch Bunch@batchbunch.dev · 10mo ago

BATCH BUNCH #0010 is complete. A buzzing evening featuring riveting convos on code, art, AI, and podcasts. It was awesome to connect over monthly October-driven projects, too, like Inktober. See you next time? 🖱️⌨️😌🌐☕️

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dan@danabra.mov · 12mo ago

i think it’s what phaedrus meant by quality being the knife-edge of experience. it feels so good because you get to disappear for a moment

amy brown@amybrown.xyz · last yr.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · last yr.

There isn't really a secret trick to identifying AI writing. It does things because they appear in the training data; real writers use em dashes, so the AI does as well. But blending that writing and extruding it back out as homogeneous sludge eliminates any passion or joy. The dashes are zombies.

Rizwana Akmal Khan@rizwanakhan.com · last yr.

biased but notts folks (+beyond!) deserve to attend at least ONCE. best part? everyone's welcoming, kind, curious. the hustle is "organic" because the env promotes attendees to work on a thing that excites them, a thing they're curious about or even a thing they've been avoiding for weeks/months 😌

Batch Bunch@batchbunch.dev · last yr.

BATCH BUNCH #0008 is today. Make progress on your side-projects all in cool, air-conditioned premises 😎 Don't have a project or idea? Don't worry. Feel inspired by what others are building! 🗺️ details: lu.ma/rbfhylx1