Time to finally do an #introduction!

I’ve been fascinated by the #web since I first got on the internet when I was a teenager. The idea that anyone could create a website — how cool is that!?

I’ve been a #Mac user even longer (my parents were in education and my mom would bring home her office Mac Classic on the weekends). Being creative with #HyperCard and wanting to make dynamic websites eventually got me into #programming. First with #Perl, later #PHP, and now #JavaScript and #TypeScript. I’ve also had some fun with #C, #ObjectiveC, and #Swift.

For 14 years I worked at a small company that makes the premier CMS for the #AltWeekly press in the US. Now I work on web applications in #React in the far-more corporate world. I also used to co-organize TucsonJS and the Tucson React meetups.

I can’t predict what my toots will be about in the future but right now my interests also include indoor #rowing, trying to understand how #ActivityPub works, and #GeoGuessr.

@gotobedtony yes! City Pages has been somewhat reborn as the site Racket, run by some of the former staff. I’m tremendously impressed by the investigative reporting at @mnreformer and also enjoy Sahan Journal quite a lot. Having said all that there’s no truly replacing an #altweekly - once they disappear I fear there’s always a bit of a void left behind…

As an alum of several altweeklies - including the defunct #minneapolis City Pages, whose archives have similarly vanished from the internet - this story about the shadowy purchase of a Charlottesville #altweekly’s internet archive breaks my heart. At City Pages we also wrote a lot about bad people doing bad things - people who must be DELIGHTED that our work has been disappeared https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/14/hook-charlottesville-vanished-archive/

Well, hello! I’m Jennifer Fumiko Cahill (she/her), writer, Asian American journalist & arts & features editor of the North Coast Journal in Humboldt County, CA. I write about food, opinion, social issues, movies & satire/humor (sometimes as a truly shitty cat). Always hungry, frequently joking.

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