Hey, I'm Jacky Alciné 👋🏿‍🧑🏿‍💻 📖

In your Web browser, of course. You're using Firefox, right? You can catch up by email, on a social network in the Fediverse, BlueSky or X, commonly known as Twitter as I continue to share and work on all things towards history, open digital technology, culture — and everything in between.

I write essays of varying length; most recently I wrote "Slowly Pulling out from the Fediverse". I'm currently working on Shock, a social reader and CMS for the open social Web and Livtet, my take on book management and referencing. I keep notes weekly.

Around the Web (and World)

An (incomplete) collection of links to things I'm referenced in or written:

• Talking with Manoush Zomordi about algorithmic bias in Google Photos
• Talking with Joel Hooks about the software landscape
• Quoted by Ars Technica and The New York Times about Google's inability to work on algorithmic bias
• My contribution to the fourth volume of Kernel, A Labor of Luck detailing my experience in the midst of the development of a collective bargaining agreement at Code for America.

I'm referenced in the selected material:

• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increase Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
• The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
• You Deserve a Tech Union by Ethan Marcotte

I've given talks in community settings:

• Making the IndieWeb Open to All at IndieWeb Summit 2019
• Opening a Restaurant to Share Our Cooking at IndieWebCamp West 2020
• Slides to a talk about a light history of SSL, TLS and HTTP/2 given at WaffleJS.
• Take Down: How SMS-Based 2FA Shouldn't Be Your Angle for Techqueria

Let's Work Together

You can find me on LinkedIn or download my resume/CV. Feel free to schedule time on my calendar, text me or message me via Matrix or XMPP/Jabber. You could always send e-mail to yo@jacky.wtf.

For my software, you can find my contributions at Microsoft's GitHub, GitLab, sourcehut and GNOME's Gitlab.