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   Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 23:02:34 JST Glyph

   Please enjoy the talk I delivered this weekend at #ExcavaCon 2025 — it is now live on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lcj0-VrJbXQ

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     Christopher Neugebauer (chrisjrn@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 23:02:30 JST Christopher Neugebauer

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     @glyph let's be clear, this is not a viability question. We broke even on tickets and sponsorships, but we didn't increase our reserve. We're doing this because we don't reach the audience we want – the young and impressionable, and people who are shut out of other tech events by not focusing on access. Is it worth us trying very hard to make a special event if only the chosen few get to attend? Probably not.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 23:02:31 JST Glyph

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     It's been a few days now and I'm going to stop posting about #NBPy soon but I do want to stress this before I do. I've mentioned that the event is pretty special, but it's hard to succinctly articulate why in a direct way. As a way of gesturing at what I mean though, consider that this is an event where the organizer can get up *after the conference is over*, say "it would help us if some of you could pay more for your tickets" and a bunch of the audience *does that*

     https://social.coop/@chrisjrn/114418138639298001

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 23:02:31 JST Glyph

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     If you attend tech conferences, how many of them would you voluntarily pay more for *after* the event is already done, just to make sure that it is more accessible for *other* people next year? It's one of those.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 23:02:32 JST Glyph

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     I keep trying to actually follow the advice of other successful speakers and write talks that can be delivered more than once so that I can get practice delivering them and select among several recordings and just generally do less work for equivalent impact, but then I go and add load-bearing lines like "then why are we in a barn" and that's very hard to replicate in a nonspecific tech-conference context #ExcavaCon

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 23:02:32 JST Glyph

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     but, if you really think about it, isn't, like, society, a barn?

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     no, that's not a barn, only barns are barns, that's the problem

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 23:02:33 JST Glyph

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     You can also support me over on Github Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/glyph/

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 23:02:33 JST Glyph

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     I am not struggling or suffering and there's a lot going on in the world right now, but as those struggles percolate through my audience, some of my (pretty small) patron base has understandably needed to pull back, and that makes it kinda difficult to justify ambitious projects like this to myself and my family, so, kicking in even a $1/mo subscription as a vote of confidence makes a big difference.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 23:02:33 JST Glyph

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     For your troubles, you will receive access to private mostly-weekly updates and commit message "thank you"s via https://github.com/glyph/SponCom/ and the occasional private patron-only blog post that is a bit too spicy for main. (These benefits are available regardless of your preferred service to subscribe through.)

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 23:02:34 JST Glyph

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     If you enjoyed this talk when you saw it in person, or if you enjoyed this video and you'd like me to do more stuff like this, please consider supporting such work (my talks, my writing, and my software maintenance) over at Patreon; as an independent consultant, there is no employer supporting me in doing stuff like this: https://patreon.com/creatorglyph