• slack: For the Horde (invite only)
• discord: Callahan's Crosstime Discord (ask for an invite by my email)
• email: [email protected]
• Calendly: (schedule a virtual meeting with me) https://calendly.com/tamouse

(sometimes with a tail: tamouse__) (and sometimes tamouse_pontiki)

• 😄 Pronouns: She/her/hers, they/them are also good
• 🏳️‍🌈 Queer, LGBTIQ+ positive and supportive
• Antifa, Abololishonist, Anti-Racist
• 💻 Retired Senior Staff Software engineer
• 🖌️ Watercolourist, and other analog media
• 👩 Mom to two wonderful, grown women that are changing the world; Nana to two awesome grandkids; Cat Mom to Bonesie

⚡ Fun fact: I wrote my first software app in the summer of 1969, a lunar landing game written in BASIC and stored on punched paper tape, using a tty-33 teletype!

• Helping traditionally underserved and marginalized folks wanting to get in software development, learning technology and how to navigate these spaces that have traditionally been hostile
• Building a personal practice in antiracism, antifascism, and liberation
• Learning the craft of watercolour, as well as pencil (graphite), charcoal, and gouache media. Working on observational drawing skills
• Learning logseq, and how to switch from consuming so much data to producing helpful content.

Adopted from Guiding Principles by Kim Crayton, The Antiracist Economist

1. Tech is Not Neutral, Nor is it Apolitical
2. Intention without Strategy is Chaos
3. Lack of Inclusion is a Risk/Crisis Management Issue
   ... and lastly and most importantly:
4. Prioritize the Most Vulnerable

• Ways in which I continue to cause harm and how to clean that up
• Watercolour painting
• Charcoal drawing
• Graphite rendering
• Urban & Loose sketching
• Digital painting

• Being more collborative, facilitative, and generally more helpful
• Building a practice of anti-racism
• Building a practice of anti-fascism
• Building a practice as a mentor
• Leveling up as a software engineer
• Watercolour painting, and making art in general

• https://tamouse.org - Personal landing page
• https://blog.tamouse.org - Personal blog (except it's broken)
• https://swaac.dev - Software as a Craft: Tamouse's Personzal devblog
• https://tamouse.art - The Art blog of tamouse
• https://recipes.tamouse.org - My personal cooking recipes

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pontiki.elpmet/
• Facebook, FB Messenger: https://www.facebook.com/tamara.temple
• Threads: https://www.threads.net/@tamouse_pontiki -- I haven't found anything interesting here
• Bluesky: @tamouse.org -- I haven't found this worth being on yet
• Xitter: https://twitter.com/tamouse -- note shuttering this soon
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamaratemple

• Mastodon: @[email protected] https://ruby.social/web/@tamouse

• Tamara's Wish List (Amazon)
• Art Studio (Amazon)
• Goulet Pens
• Dick Blick Art Supplies