Zainab Bawa

Submissions Speak at Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference

I am curating the Supply Chain Security track at #Rootconf2025!

Got stories, tools, or lessons from the trenches? Come speak — or just show up and learn.

hasgeek.com/rootconf/2025/

#DevSecOps #SBOM #CI_CD #InfoSec #DevOps #OpenSource #CloudSecurity #SupplyChainSecurity #SRE

cc: @hasgeek.com

A digital event poster for the VizChitra Launch Party. The poster has a white background with a geometric hexagonal pattern in pink, peach, and teal on the right side. The VizChitra logo is at the top, followed by the text "is having its LAUNCH PARTY" in bold. Event details are listed below: 📅 Friday, 21 February 2025 📍 Virtual ⏰ 5 PM The event is hosted by Gurman Bhatia, Founder of Revisual Labs, and Rasagy Sharma, Design Manager at Capital One. A pink QR code at the bottom with "Register here!" directs viewers to sign up for the event.

🎉VizChitra Launch Party!🚀

Are you a data storyteller or aspiring to be one?

Join our first virtual hangout with @chartwaali.bsky.social & @rasagy.bsky.social to connect, create & chat about data, design & innovation!

Register here: hasgeek.com/VizChitra/la...

We can't wait to see you there!✨

The image features a modern, minimalistic design with a white background. The text in the center reads: "DATA IS THE NEW OIL SOIL, SO WHAT WILL YOU GROW?" The word "OIL" is crossed out and replaced with "SOIL," emphasizing a shift in perspective. The word "GROW" is in large, bold letters. Below, in smaller text, it says: "We’re creating something special. Stay tuned." The design includes geometric lines in pastel shades of orange, blue, and pink, connected by dark circular nodes, creating a structured yet dynamic layout.

Four months ago, some of the coolest minds on the Indian internet asked: If data is the new soil, what will you grow?

That’s how @vizchitra.bsky.social was born. Now, we’re ready to share it with the world.

What is it? Who are we? What are we creating?

Stay tuned to find out! 🌱

If you are curious about self hosting, just like @karthikb351.com @sasank.bsky.social, come off to today's @hasgeek.com review of Ente at⌚️6 pm.
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Paying attention to microbes, bacteria and fungi with composting experiments, and setting curds.

Finished reading Chikkamma Tours over 3 days. Thanks for the lovely book @unmana.bsky.social though I wish it ended differently.

Continuing to feel vulnerable, and going about ...

I want to stress again, that Americans hate and distrust Elon and Zuck SO MUCH that they've voluntarily given their data to China, and BEGUN LEARNING MANDARIN TO DO IT.

And they're having FUN.

Whew. It's going to be a wild ride.

And you're going to have a hard time manufacturing consent for aggressive action against China when 170 million American TikTok Refugees are mutuals with half of the RedNote netizens.

This is absoLUTELY going to have diplomatic ramifications.

I am watching 30 years of propaganda melt away at first contact with actual Chinese folks.

Every comment section on RedNote are the Chinese users welcoming the Americans, "I'm so glad you're here! We can be friends now! We are not enemy!"

can’t get that gaiman piece out of my head. he’s a monster. existing on this plane, getting away with it for years and years.

it’s changed me, not in a good way. is this what they call a blackpill? feels like it.

Building a stomach.

Battling with thoughts abt "have to run" versus "run for fun".

Building core muscles to stomach the world's BS. Plus Zuck ducked content moderation which anyway sucked for FB.

Building muscle - in strength and equanimity.

Facebook Destroys Everything: Part 1 In Southeast Asia in the early 2010s, I watched as Mark Zuckerberg's creation began to destroy Myanmar. Here's why I'm never using Threads.

I wrote about why Mark Zuckerberg is spectacularly evil in a three-part series here - based in part on my experiences reporting in Myanmar in the early 2010s.

little-flying-robots.ghost.io/facebook-des...

One kind of poverty is a lack of ideas and imagination. Such a poverty causes a brain fog.

India is not for beginners: January 2025 edition —"villagers, on their routine walks, found the transformer missing. It had been stripped of everything that could be sold — copper wires, oil, and other metal segments"

I absolutely loved reading AI Snake Oil for precisely this kind of understanding on how to separate the fluff from the stuff. @randomwalker.bsky.social @sayash.bsky.social

Pacing is true for every aspect of life. #running

Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄

Except to those committing and backing genocide in the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Thoughts with the people of Palestine in mourning this holiday season. 🇵🇸

So, is India's economy as bankrupt as its politics? #GST #taxes

I strongly recommend working with @chartwaali.bsky.social and @revisual.co A great organization is built by great people - if you are seeking greatness in design and growth of self, this job is really your next destination!

14 years - 14 as in dog years. HBD @hasgeek.com

Happy 14 @hasgeek
@jackerhack.ing

Miss-appropriation.

Thank you, Carl. Let's do more of the good stuff together - more with more!

@omshivaprakash.bsky.social @yeswescan.org @jackerhack.ing @captnemo.in - at the GeekUp with Carl today. Lots of great questions coming up on how Carl does all the good things he does - with open access, open knowledge, and much, much more. Recording of the talk coming up.soon. @hasgeek.com

To my posse, my crew, my junta, my peeps, my club; Happy Bithday! Get turnt. Happy birthday hasgeek! Within your community I made my closest friends, learnt how to preapre and present my wild ideas to people, and participated in an ec…

Creating a place to belong - has.gy/O7fW
Thank you @threepointone.bsky.social for these heartening words. It gives meaning to what we do @hasgeek.com