Cassidy James

Since 2004, this community has helped make Firefox and the open internet possible. Our “Come Back to Firefox” campaign reunites a few early internet icons to remind people what made the internet special, and why it’s worth protecting.

Building a reddit clone 😃 Moderating a reddit clone 😰

Glow-in-the-dark filament is so much fun. Time for spooky earrings!

Something I wish more people would realize.

ziptie nodes v0

you can `transform: skew()` every element!! no one will stop you

spotted: @roost.tools's contribution of a rubber chicken

As a parent, I can confirm that most kids do not give a solitary fuck about gender, they just want to wear clothes they think are cool and interact with their friends and eat yogurt

we had a great time hacking on Matrix this week at #MatrixConf. The @matrix.org folks are doing some great work and use Coop, Osprey, and HMA to do it! ft @cassidyjames.com and @julietshen.online (sometimes but not always represented by a rooster on a wall)

atproto has the weirdest (positive) accounts

when someone I love is on the stage? I HOOT, STOMP, and HOLLER and that's our right as americans

I am once again reminded that going WOOOOO is a very American thing I will shamelessly WOOOOO in this very euro conference

Impromptu sabacc game at the Matrix Conference! I didn’t bring shift tokens, so we ended up using @roost.tools swag. 🤣 #MatrixConf #sabacc

Great talks this morning: updates from the Matrix Governing Board and the Working Groups, and updates on unifying Matrix and @IETF #encryption standard #MLS with Famedly and BWI GmbH #openstandards. After coffee we're back with encryption, public sector messaging, and #healthcare. #MatrixConf

Will you be attending The Matrix Conference in Malmö, Sweden, on 20th to 23rd October? Find Jack, who’ll be representing Fractal, and say hello! Want to learn more? Check out 2026.matrix.org/ #Matrix #MatrixConf

And snag yourself a Fractal sticker from the community sticker exchange!

hugs ops to all IT professionals today and beyond

shout out to @iftas.org moderator survey during @mackesque.bsky.social talk at #MatrixConf @matrix.org

stream the talks here! @mackesque.bsky.social and @roost.tools are up in 10 minutes

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/

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...

Bad day to launch my PHP based certificate authority

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.

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

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 !

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.

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

A new issue of This Week In GNOME is now online! #270 Visualized Community thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/1... #ThisWeekInGNOME #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OpenSource

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.

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?

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

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...

Our updated roadmap is open for discussion! This roadmap update was rooted largely in feedback from current adopters, feature requests from potential adopters, and issues that the community has raised. We look forward to your input! 🐣 github.com/orgs/roostor...