Calling for systems thinking @coralineada.bsky.social points out the fact that to win a chess game you don’t zoom in on a subset. You zoom out and understand the whole system.

@coralineada.bsky.social sharing wisdom @xoruby.com

Chicago, we can't wait to see you this weekend! We've got some incredible talks lined up from Aji Slater, @coralineada.bsky.social, and Erin Claudio. Sat. 9/6 @ Fulton Street Collective 🎟️ Do you have your ticket yet? Grab yours for $100: xoruby.com/event/chicago/ #rubyfriends #ruby

Do you work in open source community management? I'm curious about how the anti-"DEI" backlash in the US might be affecting the practice, especially around outreach efforts and code of conduct enforcement.

The team behind the new Contributor Covenant builder tool faced a challenge: how to make adoption easy, without making it thoughtless. So we slowed adoption to the speed of trust, with prompts for communities to customize their reporting & enforcement policies. More at www.contributor-covenant.org

We'll be hosting small regional ruby conferences in Chicago, Atlanta, and New Orleans in September. Tell your friends! www.xoruby.com/blog/why-i-a...

I'm happy to share that I'm speaking at the inaugural event in Chicago in September! The tentative title of my talk is "Post-Dystopia: How We Got Here (and What We Can Do About It)"

Congratulations go to IBM as the first official adopter of Contributor Covenant 3.0! See more featured adopters & explore what's new with the premier code of conduct for digital communities at www.contributor-covenant.org #opensource #EthicalSource #ContributorCovenant #CodesOfConduct

I'm proud to be part of celebrating an advance for governable online spaces—a huge update for @coralineada.bsky.social's Contributor Covenant, the most widely used code of conduct in open source. It is now interactive & supports design for due process. Take a look! ethicalsource.dev/blog/contrib...

This was a year-long project with a team of dedicated volunteers from around the world. So much gratitude to Greg Cassel, Coraline Ada Ehmke, Gerardo Lisboa, Rynn Mancuso, Mo McElaney, Maryblessing Okolie, Ben Sternthal, and Casey Watts for their dedication and expertise.

To ensure that we were meeting the real-world needs of communities, we surveyed, interviewed, and shared working drafts with over 2 dozen open industry experts to learn about the challenges of code of conduct enforcement and where current tools were falling short. Thanks to those who participated!

The enforcement guidelines section has been reimagined as “Addressing and Repairing Harm,” reflecting an alignment with principles of restorative justice, including finding ways to safely reintegrate someone back into a community after an incident occurs.

Contributor Covenant 3.0 is designed to be more adaptable to different kinds of communities, both online and offline. It is written with clearer, less US-centric language, intended to be easier to understand and translate.

The book is really well-received so far, and I can't be happier with what I'm hearing from readers. Most recently, a young woman just entering tech told me that after reading it, she "didn't feel alone anymore". (Yes, I cried.)

Our Apress title 'We Just Build Hammers' applies a lens of speculative and science fiction to connect you with a historical lineage of thinkers and activists in the responsible tech movement. Its narrative spans a century of major technological upheavals: http://spklr.io/63325hBJc

What do we like as a soundcloud replacement that won't use our music to train its AI? Preferably something federated? The first coop to deliver social music sharing wins.

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night 2 of book club is tomorrow! join us. if you care about the future of tech, you have to be there.

Join the (m)otherboard community Wednesday April 30th at 8ET/5PT for our bookclub discussion of We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech. This week we'll talk about early computers and meet a hero of ethical computing. www.eventbrite.com/e/motherboar...

🔨📚 JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! 🔨📚 We're kicking off Session 2 of our book club on April 30th with We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of #ResponsibleTech, a new book by #techethicist and (m)otherboard godmother @coralineada.bsky.social. m.otherboard.org/book-club/

I'm urgently looking for work 🚨 Engineering manager or staff programmer 20 years ruby/rails 30 years of web dev/design 5+ years of eng mgmt I'm based in Portland, Oregon Open to local or remote work https://linkedin.com/in/veganstraightedge

Hear @coralineada.bsky.social discuss her new book, "We Just Build Hammers," in this episode of @redmonk.com's the MonkCast. We discuss extensible lessons from science fiction, the hacker ethic, & the history of science's connection to contemporary tech justice movements. redmonk.com/blog/2025/04...

I really enjoyed the conversation with Kate, and I hope that you will find something resonant in this episode!

I'm featured in the opening Trans Joy segment on Imara Jones's amazing TransLash podcast on the rise of techno-fascism. Check it out wherever you find your podcasts, for example podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Announcing the 4th and final album by Sudre's Violin! “Figure Six" uses odd rhythms, sinister piano, fragile guitar, & broken synths to take you on a journey through haunting and haunted postpunk soundscapes. #FascistsHateMyMusic #SupportTransArtists coralineada.bandcamp.com/album/figure-6

(m)otherboard is hosting a 4-part book club series featuring We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech. Every other Wednesday starting on April 16th. Check it out! www.eventbrite.com/e/motherboar...

www.pandabrand.net/spring-2-is-... My new EP is out! Find it on bandcamp and streaming soon!

Received anonymously. More of this please. "Hi Coraline, years ago I sent you a transphobic and hateful message. Since then, my views have changed quite radically and I no longer stand by my previous actions. I'm truly sorry if I have caused you any harm." Thank you, whoever you are. #TDoV

received "We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech" book today. haven't written a review yet but 5 stars ya'll I read while it was in progress. in the university library as an ebook already. details: thehammerbook.com. cheers @coralineada.bsky.social

I'm especially looking forward to reading @coralineada.bsky.social's We Just Build Hammers on the flight. Thanks for the rec, @mooreds.com thehammerbook.com

if you're gonna stay on LinkedIn, radicalize it

Just purchased the new book from @coralineada.bsky.social Are we just "building hammers"—tools that are neither inherently good nor bad, or are we unintentionally making society worse? thehammerbook.com #TheHammerBook

I just got the author copies of my new book, "We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech." I thought it would be fun to catch the unboxing on video. Check it out, then visit thehammerbook.com for more on the book and how to buy it!

This is going to be a fascinating and very important read.

I just learned that TODAY is the release date of the book by one of my great heroes, @coralineada.bsky.social. She is an engineer who created the most widely adopted code of conduct in tech, and her wisdom and courage overflow everywhere she goes. Get it now: thehammerbook.com

Are you building hammers or knee breakers? How would you know?

It's here! "We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech" brings to life tales of the unsung heroes of responsible tech and the science fiction that inspired them. thehammerbook.com #TechJustice #EthicalSource #ResponsibleTech #TechEthics #TheFutureIsSoft

Happening now: Adventures in Democracy with Brian Eno, exploring the role of art, creativity, and imagination in the current crisis of democracy. www.youtube.com/live/CcJiZGT...

Reminder that being kind is punk.

ITS ALMOST HERE! You can pre-order a copy of the incredible @coralineada.bsky.social’s book We Just Build Hammers. Perfect for anyone wondering if we could still use tech for good (and how not to be complicit in building for harm) bookshop.org/p/books/we-j...

we were so excited to have completed our NEH Digital Humanities Grant by the deadline and 💨. perhaps we can obtain a corporate sponsor like @mcuban.bsky.social to help us build this importance archive at a time when knowledge is being restricted & hidden.

Apple open-sources its build system, and adopts Contributor Covenant for the community's code of conduct: appleinsider.com/articles/25/... #EthicalSource #OpenSource

Co-presenting on Saturday Feb 15 at the virtual FOSDEM Open Research Devroom re TMI-WEB, an open and ethical toolkit for qualitative analysis that lets social science researchers explore the complexities of intersectional identities. Hope to see you there! research-fosdem.github.io/2025-online-...

It was a privilege!

So happy to have @coralineada.bsky.social talking tech ethics here at @cubouldercha.bsky.social!

Coming soon from Apress! "We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech" applies a lens of speculative fiction to connect modern technologists with a historical lineage of leaders & visionaries in the responsible tech movement. Learn more at thehammerbook.com

📱 proud to be part of (m)otherboard's signature project: A People's History of Tech (#APHOT). we're building a collective archive of how technology shapes our lives, enviro, and communities. everyone has a story. what's yours? add your voice at peoplestech.com 💫 let's rewrite tech's narrative.

I gave this a read and can't recommend it enough for folks who want a holistic view of what open source really means at the ground level.