Free speech and unlimited breadsticks
Silicon Valley pissbabies love moaning about free speech on online platforms. They have absolutely no idea how social media platforms work. Yishan, former CEO of Reddit, has an incredibly smarmy yet informative thread that covered most of the major problems with this...
Connecting Action Network and Google Sheets with webhooks and n8n
Recently, I wanted to connect an Action Network form that collects emails to a Google Sheet. The sheet is designed for mobilizers to find users that signed the Action Network form and reach out to them for a high-touch onboarding to the DSA National Tech Committee....Why you should care about team chat apps, and which is the best for DSA?
Slack invented the concept of a team chat platform and is still the dominant player, but in the last few years open-source competitors have risen to challenge its dominance.
A year in review from socialism.tools
Year in review It’s been a long, weird year, and I thought I’d make a quick post to review what I’ve done this year. Socialism.tools started in 2020 but I only really started polishing it and adding regular content this year. In the first half of the...Zero to Zulip- Installing Zulip on Ubuntu 20.04 for beginners
Introduction Zulip is a fully open-source collaboration program and a great alternative to Slack. This guide will walk you through installation and basic configuration of Zulip so you can have fast, productive conversations with friends and coworkers. These...
Document editors — a quick head to head
You know Google Docs and Word, but how to they compare to OnlyOffice or Libreoffice? Here’s a quick look with a small but complex proposal I recently wrote.