Coraline Ada Ehmke
@coralineada.bsky.social
Internationally recognized tech ethicist, software engineer, & open source troublemaker. Author, "We Just Build Hammers". Creator, Contributor Covenant and Hippocratic License. Co-Founder, Organization for Ethical Source. Chair, Governance Futures Network.
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We Just Build Hammers: A New Book by Coraline Ada Ehmke
Stories of visionaries from the past, present, & future of responsible tech, and the science fiction that inspired them. Available now from Apress.
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It's here! "We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech" brings to life tales of the unsung heroes of responsible tech and the science fiction that inspired them.
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#TechJustice #EthicalSource #ResponsibleTech #TechEthics #TheFutureIsSoft
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#TechJustice #EthicalSource #ResponsibleTech #TechEthics #TheFutureIsSoft
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Calling for systems thinking @coralineada.bsky.social points out the fact that to win a chess game you don’t zoom in on a subset.
You zoom out and understand the whole system.
You zoom out and understand the whole system.
September 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Calling for systems thinking @coralineada.bsky.social points out the fact that to win a chess game you don’t zoom in on a subset.
You zoom out and understand the whole system.
You zoom out and understand the whole system.
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@coralineada.bsky.social sharing wisdom @xoruby.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
@coralineada.bsky.social sharing wisdom @xoruby.com
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Chicago, we can't wait to see you this weekend! We've got some incredible talks lined up from Aji Slater, @coralineada.bsky.social, and Erin Claudio.
Sat. 9/6 @ Fulton Street Collective
🎟️ Do you have your ticket yet?
Grab yours for $100: xoruby.com/event/chicago/
#rubyfriends #ruby
Sat. 9/6 @ Fulton Street Collective
🎟️ Do you have your ticket yet?
Grab yours for $100: xoruby.com/event/chicago/
#rubyfriends #ruby
September 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Chicago, we can't wait to see you this weekend! We've got some incredible talks lined up from Aji Slater, @coralineada.bsky.social, and Erin Claudio.
Sat. 9/6 @ Fulton Street Collective
🎟️ Do you have your ticket yet?
Grab yours for $100: xoruby.com/event/chicago/
#rubyfriends #ruby
Sat. 9/6 @ Fulton Street Collective
🎟️ Do you have your ticket yet?
Grab yours for $100: xoruby.com/event/chicago/
#rubyfriends #ruby
Do you work in open source community management? I'm curious about how the anti-"DEI" backlash in the US might be affecting the practice, especially around outreach efforts and code of conduct enforcement.
August 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Do you work in open source community management? I'm curious about how the anti-"DEI" backlash in the US might be affecting the practice, especially around outreach efforts and code of conduct enforcement.
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The team behind the new Contributor Covenant builder tool faced a challenge: how to make adoption easy, without making it thoughtless. So we slowed adoption to the speed of trust, with prompts for communities to customize their reporting & enforcement policies.
More at www.contributor-covenant.org
More at www.contributor-covenant.org
Contributor Covenant | A Code of Conduct for Digital Communities
The most widely adopted code of conduct in open source.
www.contributor-covenant.org
August 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The team behind the new Contributor Covenant builder tool faced a challenge: how to make adoption easy, without making it thoughtless. So we slowed adoption to the speed of trust, with prompts for communities to customize their reporting & enforcement policies.
More at www.contributor-covenant.org
More at www.contributor-covenant.org
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We'll be hosting small regional ruby conferences in Chicago, Atlanta, and New Orleans in September. Tell your friends!
www.xoruby.com/blog/why-i-a...
www.xoruby.com/blog/why-i-a...
Why I'm Taking Events on the Road This Fall
I last interviewed for a job in 2007. Since then, each new opportunity in my career has come through my network. People who knew when I was ready for something new, who could vouch for my work, who sa...
www.xoruby.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We'll be hosting small regional ruby conferences in Chicago, Atlanta, and New Orleans in September. Tell your friends!
www.xoruby.com/blog/why-i-a...
www.xoruby.com/blog/why-i-a...
I'm happy to share that I'm speaking at the inaugural event in Chicago in September! The tentative title of my talk is "Post-Dystopia: How We Got Here (and What We Can Do About It)"
Big news -- @jremsikjr.bsky.social of Flagrant has officially announced XO Ruby! 💫
Taking place across six U.S. cities between September and October, XO Ruby is a series of traveling events that, for locals, won't require a plane ticket and hotel stay...
Taking place across six U.S. cities between September and October, XO Ruby is a series of traveling events that, for locals, won't require a plane ticket and hotel stay...
August 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I'm happy to share that I'm speaking at the inaugural event in Chicago in September! The tentative title of my talk is "Post-Dystopia: How We Got Here (and What We Can Do About It)"
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Congratulations go to IBM as the first official adopter of Contributor Covenant 3.0!
See more featured adopters & explore what's new with the premier code of conduct for digital communities at www.contributor-covenant.org
#opensource #EthicalSource #ContributorCovenant #CodesOfConduct
See more featured adopters & explore what's new with the premier code of conduct for digital communities at www.contributor-covenant.org
#opensource #EthicalSource #ContributorCovenant #CodesOfConduct
Contributor Covenant | A Code of Conduct for Digital Communities
The most widely adopted code of conduct in open source.
www.contributor-covenant.org
August 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Congratulations go to IBM as the first official adopter of Contributor Covenant 3.0!
See more featured adopters & explore what's new with the premier code of conduct for digital communities at www.contributor-covenant.org
#opensource #EthicalSource #ContributorCovenant #CodesOfConduct
See more featured adopters & explore what's new with the premier code of conduct for digital communities at www.contributor-covenant.org
#opensource #EthicalSource #ContributorCovenant #CodesOfConduct
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I'm proud to be part of celebrating an advance for governable online spaces—a huge update for @coralineada.bsky.social's Contributor Covenant, the most widely used code of conduct in open source. It is now interactive & supports design for due process.
Take a look! ethicalsource.dev/blog/contrib...
Take a look! ethicalsource.dev/blog/contrib...
Announcing Contributor Covenant 3.0
A major new version of the premier code of conduct for open source.
ethicalsource.dev
July 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'm proud to be part of celebrating an advance for governable online spaces—a huge update for @coralineada.bsky.social's Contributor Covenant, the most widely used code of conduct in open source. It is now interactive & supports design for due process.
Take a look! ethicalsource.dev/blog/contrib...
Take a look! ethicalsource.dev/blog/contrib...
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This was a year-long project with a team of dedicated volunteers from around the world. So much gratitude to Greg Cassel, Coraline Ada Ehmke, Gerardo Lisboa, Rynn Mancuso, Mo McElaney, Maryblessing Okolie, Ben Sternthal, and Casey Watts for their dedication and expertise.
July 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This was a year-long project with a team of dedicated volunteers from around the world. So much gratitude to Greg Cassel, Coraline Ada Ehmke, Gerardo Lisboa, Rynn Mancuso, Mo McElaney, Maryblessing Okolie, Ben Sternthal, and Casey Watts for their dedication and expertise.
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To ensure that we were meeting the real-world needs of communities, we surveyed, interviewed, and shared working drafts with over 2 dozen open industry experts to learn about the challenges of code of conduct enforcement and where current tools were falling short. Thanks to those who participated!
July 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
To ensure that we were meeting the real-world needs of communities, we surveyed, interviewed, and shared working drafts with over 2 dozen open industry experts to learn about the challenges of code of conduct enforcement and where current tools were falling short. Thanks to those who participated!
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The enforcement guidelines section has been reimagined as “Addressing and Repairing Harm,” reflecting an alignment with principles of restorative justice, including finding ways to safely reintegrate someone back into a community after an incident occurs.
July 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The enforcement guidelines section has been reimagined as “Addressing and Repairing Harm,” reflecting an alignment with principles of restorative justice, including finding ways to safely reintegrate someone back into a community after an incident occurs.
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Contributor Covenant 3.0 is designed to be more adaptable to different kinds of communities, both online and offline. It is written with clearer, less US-centric language, intended to be easier to understand and translate.
July 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Contributor Covenant 3.0 is designed to be more adaptable to different kinds of communities, both online and offline. It is written with clearer, less US-centric language, intended to be easier to understand and translate.
The book is really well-received so far, and I can't be happier with what I'm hearing from readers. Most recently, a young woman just entering tech told me that after reading it, she "didn't feel alone anymore". (Yes, I cried.)
Our Apress title 'We Just Build Hammers' applies a lens of speculative and science fiction to connect you with a historical lineage of thinkers and activists in the responsible tech movement. Its narrative spans a century of major technological upheavals: http://spklr.io/63325hBJc
May 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The book is really well-received so far, and I can't be happier with what I'm hearing from readers. Most recently, a young woman just entering tech told me that after reading it, she "didn't feel alone anymore". (Yes, I cried.)
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Our Apress title 'We Just Build Hammers' applies a lens of speculative and science fiction to connect you with a historical lineage of thinkers and activists in the responsible tech movement. Its narrative spans a century of major technological upheavals: http://spklr.io/63325hBJc
May 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Our Apress title 'We Just Build Hammers' applies a lens of speculative and science fiction to connect you with a historical lineage of thinkers and activists in the responsible tech movement. Its narrative spans a century of major technological upheavals: http://spklr.io/63325hBJc
What do we like as a soundcloud replacement that won't use our music to train its AI? Preferably something federated? The first coop to deliver social music sharing wins.
May 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
What do we like as a soundcloud replacement that won't use our music to train its AI? Preferably something federated? The first coop to deliver social music sharing wins.
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day and night
April 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
day and night
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made a new website hypertext.tv
Hypertext TV
Daily programming for the handmade web. Airing now.
hypertext.tv
April 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
made a new website hypertext.tv
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night 2 of book club is tomorrow! join us.
if you care about the future of tech, you have to be there.
if you care about the future of tech, you have to be there.
🔨📚 JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! 🔨📚
We're kicking off Session 2 of our book club on April 30th with We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of #ResponsibleTech, a new book by #techethicist and (m)otherboard godmother @coralineada.bsky.social.
m.otherboard.org/book-club/
We're kicking off Session 2 of our book club on April 30th with We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of #ResponsibleTech, a new book by #techethicist and (m)otherboard godmother @coralineada.bsky.social.
m.otherboard.org/book-club/
April 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
night 2 of book club is tomorrow! join us.
if you care about the future of tech, you have to be there.
if you care about the future of tech, you have to be there.
Join the (m)otherboard community Wednesday April 30th at 8ET/5PT for our bookclub discussion of We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech. This week we'll talk about early computers and meet a hero of ethical computing.
www.eventbrite.com/e/motherboar...
www.eventbrite.com/e/motherboar...
April 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Join the (m)otherboard community Wednesday April 30th at 8ET/5PT for our bookclub discussion of We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech. This week we'll talk about early computers and meet a hero of ethical computing.
www.eventbrite.com/e/motherboar...
www.eventbrite.com/e/motherboar...
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🔨📚 JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! 🔨📚
We're kicking off Session 2 of our book club on April 30th with We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of #ResponsibleTech, a new book by #techethicist and (m)otherboard godmother @coralineada.bsky.social.
m.otherboard.org/book-club/
We're kicking off Session 2 of our book club on April 30th with We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of #ResponsibleTech, a new book by #techethicist and (m)otherboard godmother @coralineada.bsky.social.
m.otherboard.org/book-club/
April 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🔨📚 JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB! 🔨📚
We're kicking off Session 2 of our book club on April 30th with We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of #ResponsibleTech, a new book by #techethicist and (m)otherboard godmother @coralineada.bsky.social.
m.otherboard.org/book-club/
We're kicking off Session 2 of our book club on April 30th with We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of #ResponsibleTech, a new book by #techethicist and (m)otherboard godmother @coralineada.bsky.social.
m.otherboard.org/book-club/
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I'm urgently looking for work 🚨
Engineering manager or staff programmer
20 years ruby/rails
30 years of web dev/design
5+ years of eng mgmt
I'm based in Portland, Oregon
Open to local or remote work
https://linkedin.com/in/veganstraightedge
Engineering manager or staff programmer
20 years ruby/rails
30 years of web dev/design
5+ years of eng mgmt
I'm based in Portland, Oregon
Open to local or remote work
https://linkedin.com/in/veganstraightedge
April 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I'm urgently looking for work 🚨
Engineering manager or staff programmer
20 years ruby/rails
30 years of web dev/design
5+ years of eng mgmt
I'm based in Portland, Oregon
Open to local or remote work
https://linkedin.com/in/veganstraightedge
Engineering manager or staff programmer
20 years ruby/rails
30 years of web dev/design
5+ years of eng mgmt
I'm based in Portland, Oregon
Open to local or remote work
https://linkedin.com/in/veganstraightedge
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Hear @coralineada.bsky.social discuss her new book, "We Just Build Hammers," in this episode of @redmonk.com's the MonkCast. We discuss extensible lessons from science fiction, the hacker ethic, & the history of science's connection to contemporary tech justice movements. redmonk.com/blog/2025/04...
April 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Hear @coralineada.bsky.social discuss her new book, "We Just Build Hammers," in this episode of @redmonk.com's the MonkCast. We discuss extensible lessons from science fiction, the hacker ethic, & the history of science's connection to contemporary tech justice movements. redmonk.com/blog/2025/04...
I really enjoyed the conversation with Kate, and I hope that you will find something resonant in this episode!
Hear @coralineada.bsky.social discuss her new book, "We Just Build Hammers," in this episode of @redmonk.com's the MonkCast. We discuss extensible lessons from science fiction, the hacker ethic, & the history of science's connection to contemporary tech justice movements. redmonk.com/blog/2025/04...
April 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I really enjoyed the conversation with Kate, and I hope that you will find something resonant in this episode!