Cassidy James
he/him

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/@cassidy

nate
@zzstoatzz.io
5h
hugs ops to all IT professionals today and beyond
Juliet Shen
@julietshen.online
8h
shout out to @iftas.org moderator survey during @mackesque.bsky.social talk at #MatrixConf @matrix.org
Juliet Shen
@julietshen.online
9h
stream the talks here! @mackesque.bsky.social and @roost.tools are up in 10 minutes
The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org
And we have lift-off! 🚀
The doors of The Matrix Conference 2026 are opening in 2mn on the 3rd floor of the Scandic Triangeln in Malmö, and we will start streaming at 10am CEST.

In the meantime, join the fun online!
🌐 Website: conference.matrix.org/watch/
Cassidy James
@cassidyjames.com
9h
Jim is sharing an update about T&S for Matrix. @julietshen.online and I will cameo later in the talk to share a bit about @roost.tools projects being used to keep people safe on Matrix.
The Matrix.org Foundation
@matrix.org
12h
And we have lift-off! 🚀
The doors of The Matrix Conference 2026 are opening in 2mn on the 3rd floor of the Scandic Triangeln in Malmö, and we will start streaming at 10am CEST.

In the meantime, join the fun online!
🌐 Website: conference.matrix.org/watch/
Ryan Moulton
@moultano.bsky.social
15h
Claude, plz rewrite wordpress in rust. Yes all the plugins too. No I don't just mean the source code, I mean like, go replace everybody's wordpress install.

You don't have access, well funny thing...
SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social
if you aren't a huge nerd this is terrifying and very funny

php is trash. insecure by design. we have known this forever.

it still runs some very high fraction of the entire internet, including all wordpress sites and for some reason tumblr

anyway everyone using it may be pwned
e. hashman
@eha.sh
14h
An embargoed security issue in PHP leaked and it is extremely serious: all versions >5.4 are affected.

No patches are available yet.

I highly recommend shutting down any PHP services until the patch is available—that's how severe this issue is.
Andrew Lilley Brinker
@alilleybrinker.com
15h
Bad day to launch my PHP based certificate authority
Cassidy James
@cassidyjames.com
12h
What if websites were—hear me out—static documents‽

Your personal site, blog, company landing page, or project documentation shouldn’t have to be running a server-side application framework to be served.

Web apps that are actually applications: sure, of course. But more websites should be static.
The Matrix.org Foundation
@matrix.org
1d
Starting today!! #MatrixConf 20-23 October #Malmo. Here's @amandine.bsky.social getting ready to welcome volunteers and attendees. See what's up next: conference.matrix.org
A picture of Amandine from the Matrix Foundation, at a merch table with a banner describing the Matrix Foundation's goals, and merch boxes.
Juliet Shen
@julietshen.online
2d
I am in Malmö for @matrix.org Conf with @cassidyjames.com! give me a shout if you're around and want to talk decentralized trust and safety and @roost.tools !
Cassidy James
@cassidyjames.com
1d
Good morning, Malmö! I’m excited to hang out with and learn from people building messaging and social experiences on the open, decentralized #Matrix protocol. 😊

And if you have any questions about @roost.tools, our open source trust & safety tools Coop & Osprey, or T&S in general, I’d love to chat!
Me, a white man with a beard and some kind of wild hair, wearing a ROOST logo shirt in a glass elevator
Cassidy James
@cassidyjames.com
2d
Legitimately my first experience at Matrix Conference: a group of people from Matrix walking in with two giant IKEA bags full of blåhaj. 🌈🦈
Matteo Gabriele
@matteogabriele.npmx.social
2d
A few weeks ago, I shared the idea of analyzing contributors’ text for signs of automation. Now it's an app and a GitHub Action you can add to your anti-clanker Swiss Army knife.

It's still an ongoing experiment, but it seems to capture the patterns in PR and issue descriptions reasonably well.
Ms Boba (rebuilding community era)
@essentialrandom.bsky.social
3d
We have a hard time conceptualizing the difference between a "I want to code this in my spare time and make something that's fun for me and others" or "I want to build a community project" or "I want to build a product" or "I want to build a startup" and it fucks us all up at many different levels
GNOME
@gnome.org
4d
A new issue of This Week In GNOME is now online!

#270 Visualized Community

thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/1...

#ThisWeekInGNOME
#FreeSoftware
#FOSS
#OpenSource
Aaditya
@aadiicoder.bsky.social
4d
Imposter syndrome keeps thousands of developers out of open source.

You don't need to be an expert to contribute to projects like GNOME. Start by reviewing PRs or fixing the README. Maintainers want consistency and willingness to learn, not flawless code on day one.
Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️
@alice.averlong.com
4d
not to sound like a flagrant asexual (though I am one), but why are we even wasting time with sex when ripe Barlett pears exist?
Abdul El-Sayed
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social
4d
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
Juliet Shen
@julietshen.online
1w
I'm honored and excited to share that I've been appointed as a member of WikiNYC's Board of Directors!

Check out our next event on Oct 20th with @eff.org on Open Access: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:O...

meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimed...
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