- slack: For the Horde (invite only)
- discord: Callahan's Crosstime Discord (ask for an invite by my email)
- email: [email protected]
- Calendly: (schedule a virtual meeting with me) https://calendly.com/tamouse
(sometimes with a tail: tamouse__) (and sometimes tamouse_pontiki)
- 😄 Pronouns: She/her/hers, they/them are also good
- 🏳️🌈 Queer, LGBTIQ+ positive and supportive
- Antifa, Abololishonist, Anti-Racist
- 💻 Retired Senior Staff Software engineer
- 🖌️ Watercolourist, and other analog media
- 👩 Mom to two wonderful, grown women that are changing the world; Nana to two awesome grandkids; Cat Mom to Bonesie
⚡ Fun fact: I wrote my first software app in the summer of 1969, a lunar landing game written in BASIC and stored on punched paper tape, using a tty-33 teletype!
- Helping traditionally underserved and marginalized folks wanting to get in software development, learning technology and how to navigate these spaces that have traditionally been hostile
- Building a personal practice in antiracism, antifascism, and liberation
- Learning the craft of watercolour, as well as pencil (graphite), charcoal, and gouache media. Working on observational drawing skills
- Learning logseq, and how to switch from consuming so much data to producing helpful content.
Adopted from Guiding Principles by Kim Crayton, The Antiracist Economist
- Tech is Not Neutral, Nor is it Apolitical
- Intention without Strategy is Chaos
- Lack of Inclusion is a Risk/Crisis Management Issue
... and lastly and most importantly: - Prioritize the Most Vulnerable
- Ways in which I continue to cause harm and how to clean that up
- Watercolour painting
- Charcoal drawing
- Graphite rendering
- Urban & Loose sketching
- Digital painting
- Being more collborative, facilitative, and generally more helpful
- Building a practice of anti-racism
- Building a practice of anti-fascism
- Building a practice as a mentor
- Leveling up as a software engineer
- Watercolour painting, and making art in general
- https://tamouse.org - Personal landing page
- https://blog.tamouse.org - Personal blog (except it's broken)
- https://swaac.dev - Software as a Craft: Tamouse's Personzal devblog
- https://tamouse.art - The Art blog of tamouse
- https://recipes.tamouse.org - My personal cooking recipes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pontiki.elpmet/
- Facebook, FB Messenger: https://www.facebook.com/tamara.temple
- Threads: https://www.threads.net/@tamouse_pontiki -- I haven't found anything interesting here
- Bluesky:
@tamouse.org-- I haven't found this worth being on yet - Xitter: https://twitter.com/tamouse -- note shuttering this soon
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamaratemple