Jacky Alciné's essays

I've spent a good amount of (virtual) ink on this site being suspicious of generative AI and arguing that protesting it is too easy when the actual power sits with capital allotment towards its development and research, not with the model weights.

Recently, I've been helping the fine folk at Spinel work on rv, the well-known Ruby version manager written in Rust.

I decided to make a separate ATProto account on Blacksky that I'm not necessarily hiding that holds more of my day-to-day posting.

I posted this initially on Blacksky after thinking about another post made on there about the inevitable fight against generative AI.

I think I'm giving up on being a "professional" software engineer.

Things are always greener and simpler as they seem from the other side.

Last year, while I was marooned in France, I wrote a bit of a reflection on my stance of using generative AI to write software.

A point that might be one of grievance of a lost space never truly owned by Black people but still run by it tends to pop up on my "Following" feed on Bluesky once a month.

I've had this version of my static site using Eleventy for some time.

I think I've managed to cultivate a online personality that makes it clear that I'm not nice to everyone who comes across my way.

So I've done some things.

I posted on the site for Olamaelcu and I wrote about it in my newsletter but it doesn't feel official if it's not coming from my website - the one I haven't published on in more than half a year.

I posted a question on Bluesky about the placement that leftists can occupy when it comes to generative artificial intelligence.

I have been struggling with feeling "okay".

Substack is a company that started in 2017 and in less than a decade, has become ubiquitous with the notion of newsletters.

Black August is the time of year where abolitionists aim to align themselves with the struggle of those who are held by states for the purpose of maintaining their neocolonial control over the populace.

For some time, I've wrestled with what to write on this blog.

I started working on Livtet out of the annoyance of using Calibre.

I've finished Distributed Blackness earlier today and I was left with more questions than answers; though not too wide of a gap.

In order to pull myself away from the more time consuming parts of the Internet, I've decided to return my attention to Livtet.

Conversation around Trump's declaration of wanting Canada to be the 51st state has tickled the latent nationalistic bells from folks on either side of the border.

I'm writing this way later than I'd care to.

This entry serves as a reference whenever someone replies to me saying that they're disengaged from the left and right discourse.

I've been slogging through social networks with regards to the current situation with Mozilla and their ramping up of the commercialization of their flagship product, Firefox, as well as the services around it.

I technically work "multiple" roles right now.

Ethan tagged me in an interesting blog post of theirs about blogging.

For a bit of time, I've felt tension on figuring out what to write about.

I've deactivated my accounts on more platforms today.

This wasn't my first hurricane in Florida.

This is more personal and it's a development of politics and self-identity that I've had for a few years now.

I read quite a bit.

I recently mentioned my want to distance from the open social Web.

Sigh.

I don't shy from the fact that I have strong feelings that guide my outlook.

I'm sure someone out there, either in the past (near or far) or in the present, has written about the need for critique of establishments that you work and live within[1].

Today's the first day of September, marking the end of Black August for 2024.

I'm not denying it — I'm online a lot.

I'm familiar with the idea of "social bookmarking", a practice where one could use a service like del.icio.us to capture things and links that they've found interesting.

The Personal Some time after working for Glitch, I've come to realize that I had a souring relationship with the social aspects of the American web tech sphere.

One of the goals I have with Livtet is to incorporate a means of extensibility.

I wrote a bit about my goal with a project for books and the things that led to its inspiration.

I'm deciding to make more of my content more "ephemeral"; discarding months (if not years) of information I've posted there.

Electoral season always induces a level of nervousness in me.

After posting a request for Gergely's book on the tech resume, I decided to try to write what I learned from it to both demonstrate what it's helped me with and to help other folks who are in a similar position as me: hitting that wall of at least 3 autom…

Some time ago, not that long ago, I made a post on my Mastodon account about feeling a sense of fear that social media itself is the true Torment Nexus; that its objective of attempting to connect people was one that would lead us to a failure state that…

Black August is a month of remembrance and restoration for those who honor the memory of George Jackson, his brother and many other political prisoners of the United States incarceration system (and beyond).

The server I've "lived" at for some time in the Fediverse is currently down.

The upcoming United States election to see who'll end up becoming the 47th president of the United States has been mentally draining.

I've been looking for work since the layoffs at Code for America last September.

I read quite a bit.