Brooklyn Web Workers

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A monthly tech industry variety show. Next event: July 27th https://pools.events/event/Gogzju2d/brooklyn-web-workers-july-2026

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Book cover of "Forty-Four Esolangs"
Screenshot of a subway surfers video overlaid with text of Matthew 11:28 - "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
A diagram showing the linguistic relationship between "booty call" and "butt dial"
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Mar 2020 forced the whole world into remote work. This has created a persistent dialectic of remote versus in-office as the two ways to do group effort. The real battle is for async work, and patterns of remote work where we’re just simulating that we’re all in the same physical office is not success; effective async work requires a change in culture, and access to async work is a human rights issue. 
Kickstarter United NYC Strike Rally Our union has voted to strike! We are fighting for a 32-hour work week & a livable wage for all workers. Join us! Tues Oct 7 @12 PM Union Square Ventures, 817 Broadway
Our Next Contract In July of 2025 we began bargaining with the management at Kickstarter for our second union contract (our first was won in 2022). From the outset we have been clear with management that our top priorities for this contract are codifying the 4-day, 32-hour work week as the standard, raising the minimum salary for all members of the bargaining unit, and establishing protections against AI tools replacing workers. While we are proud of the progress we have made in some areas, management remains intransigent the issues of the 4-day work week and minimum salaries.
In tech we often talk of computers as if it's the evolution of paper, that paper's death to computers was simply the natural evolution of technology
The day to day was always drama filled and exciting. You drive to Sandusky to replace a switch. You drive to Cleveland Heights to setup a new cafe. You learn to make patch cables, you learn more about networking and scripting. You get in arguments about how much gas money you should be reimbursed for driving to all those sites. Lots of 16 hour days cause it has to get done now now now. Typical 2 bit IT shit. What’s a little different from a typical IT job is… the customers paying your bills are unsavory. And their customers are all poor people trying to turn a dollar into $10 knowing full well that the deck is stacked against them. Just addicted to these slot machines. But hey, you need their money so you can keep a car on the road, so it’s okay, there’s no issue here.
Forth has garnered a particular interest over the decades as a programming paradigm and OS platform. It offers a view of interacting with computers which is more direct, transparent and based on solving the needs of software workers towards defined goals. It is important to remember that many forms of human/computer interaction have been proposed, and to consider why important tools like Forth have been left aside and what is worth learning from these projects.