Building open communities and useful, usable tech for good. @roost.tools community manager @gnome.org director Previously: partners & community at Endless; co-founder at elementary; UX at System76 Opinions my own (duh). More at blaede.family/@cassidyhttps://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.comhttps://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mmdfbd3lp22wI set up a pretty sick VDO.ninja scene, and then started getting nervous about relying on a hosted web service that could theoretically disappear at any time. And then I remembered it’s open source—but it’s even better than I realized…21 May 2026 02:38 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmdfbd3lp22whttps://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mmaviey63224I got a third-party adapter for my whole-house ducted heat pump and it is 1000× better than the official thermostat adapter and a regular smart thermostat. And like a quarter of the cost. And I installed it myself by plugging in one connector. #HomeAssistant https://protoart.net/20 May 2026 02:50 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmaviey63224https://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mmasxvwjjs24I am a big fan of genuinely useful machine learning. I have never once wanted to “ask” my photos, app store, maps, or any other app anything besides basic web/knowledge stuff. Stop shoehorning LLMs into random shit.20 May 2026 02:05 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmasxvwjjs24https://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mm55yfgrss2iA rare rainy day in Denver necessitates breaking out the emo playlist https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd8B5p_t2Hq9xFwfVJ5yFfjoVh7lK1Ii618 May 2026 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm55yfgrss2ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mltxbshqrk23There’s been a ton of work going into Coop, the open source moderation/review dashboard from @roost.tools, in order for it to be used by real T&S teams to protect real people from online harms. #OpenSource #TrustAndSafety https://github.com/roostorg/coop/compare/0.0...main14 May 2026 23:18 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltxbshqrk23https://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mltbcprlnc23American healthcare: “Your doctor diagnosed you & determined these meds will help you function. Here’s 30 days worth. It’s ILLEGAL to give you more. We won’t refill it until 30 days has passed. When we refill it, it’ll take two weeks. It costs two $2000. Use this piece of paper and it costs $50.”14 May 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltbcprlnc23https://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mlqjx6o7hs27Listening to my 4yo’s “I like this song” playlist—songs from my partner’s or my playlists or radio that she liked—she kept saying “Wait for it… wait for it!” when her favorite part of a song was coming. This led to me introducing the concept of “the drop.” And now deadmau5 is on her playlist. 😆13 May 2026 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqjx6o7hs27https://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mlpbcxz7nk2oThanks, I hate it. https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/noto-3d-emoji/13 May 2026 02:34 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpbcxz7nk2ohttps://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mlboaxo4i22vWhat do people think about using symbolic links in a web project you commit to git, with contributors who might be using Linux, macOS, or Windows? I’ve heard there are ~issues~ for contributors on Windows, but don’t know how big of a deal it actually is. #OpenSource #Git #SourceCode #Community07 May 2026 16:48 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlboaxo4i22vhttps://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mkyprsgyxk2nMaul: Shadow Lord is about Maul and a cop. @keeblycat.bsky.social misheard it as Mall Shadow Lord, which of course would be about an evil mall cop.04 May 2026 03:22 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkyprsgyxk2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mksvleyqbc2yYou can disagree with someone—heck, you can even not like them—but don’t bring that into my community by harassing them. We’re gonna protect our community members like an angry momma bear, and you will not be welcome anywhere near our projects.01 May 2026 19:49 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksvleyqbc2yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mksfemz2mk2ySo so much work happening on @roost.tools Coop rn. It turns out when you have orgs adopting an open source project, you get lots of feedback—and new contributors! 🙌 #OpenSource #TrustAndSafety https://github.com/roostorg/coop/01 May 2026 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksfemz2mk2yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mkpy7shahc2zJust set up a small monthly donation to @accessnow.org. One-off donations are always welcome to non-profits, but smaller recurring ones can be super impactful, too. @deobald.bsky.social wrote about this in the context of GNOME, but it applies to any non-profit: https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/06/26/donate-less/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpy7shahc2zhttps://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mknm66pknc24Can anyone using Firefox on macOS or Windows do me a favor? 🙏 I’d love to see how Firefox’s picture-in-picture for video works on those platforms so I can compare to how it works on Linux (GNOME, specifically, but the Linux build of Firefox in general).29 Apr 2026 17:18 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknm66pknc24https://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mk6hgju5xc24I get that spam PRs for popular repos are a problem, but nothing turns me off from ever wanting to contribute to your project more than when I get an automated response like this.23 Apr 2026 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6hgju5xc24https://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mk6ftoqmt224Universal Blue/Bazzite/Silverblue/other immutable Linux friends: (why) should I be using Homebrew? #Linux #Homebrew #Bazzite #uBlue #Fedora #Silverblue23 Apr 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6ftoqmt224https://blacksky.community/profile/cassidyjames.com/post/3mk5ad5succ24I got a ThinkPad P1 for work and it’s mostly *awesome,* but I think there’s something wrong with the display. 😭 It’s the 120 Hz OLED but looks grainier than an OLED phone from 15 years ago. And somehow there are very visible hot spots brightness-wise? I don’t even know how that’s possible w/OLED.23 Apr 2026 05:03 +0000at://did:plc:peeu2pxtjsv7k3zaysuzfvt6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5ad5succ24