Ivy Astrix

job seeking post for 2026: backend leaning full-stack with infra experience currently looking for a new role, recent stack is React / React Native / TypeScript / Postgres recent accomplishments are building a Stripe + Hedera surveryor data marketplace and building blockchain indexers / pipelines resumeme:

job seeking post for 2026: backend leaning full-stack with infra experience currently looking for a new role, recent stack is React / React Native / TypeScript / Postgres recent accomplishments are building a Stripe + Hedera surveryor data marketplace and building blockchain indexers / pipelines resumeme:

job seeking post for 2026: backend leaning full-stack with infra experience currently looking for a new role, recent stack is React / React Native / TypeScript / Postgres recent accomplishments are building a Stripe + Hedera surveryor data marketplace and building blockchain indexers / pipelines resumeme:

i've had this feeling vaguely resembling emptiness since dec 2023 that i really am terrified means whatever ethereal spirits were looking out for me have left

closing the door on something traumatic feels less like accomplishment and more like emptying part of yourself the whole feels better, but the hole still feels bad

i'll probably never see a rave dance floor or music festival again i think that my experience was not always what i wanted, and not what it could have been if i had come out when i first knew, but it was still pretty good for being a late bloomer

still feeling the energy from ritualing last night this is either psychosomatic or i have been successful in summoning a dark spirit

ritualed successfully for the first time in a long time but i did burn one thumb bad enough that i think it's blistering, such are the dangers of witchcraft

something new on Rationalism and the cracked crucibles they use to adjudicate harm, and how they are rigged from the start against victims https://open.substack.com/pub/theasterisk/p/the-cracked-crucibles-of-rationalism?r=8qt9d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

@neynar what do you know about nicole wallace and robert goren?

claude writes really good law and order fanfiction

this guy runs a podcast about harry potter rationalist fanfiction and it really makes me want to vomit someone with influence equates victims of sexual assault and violent rapists ps: some details here indicate this is about me https://deathisbad.substack.com/p/any-community-that-tolerates-trauma

elon has a really immature understanding of free speech and it's indicative of the prevalence of poorly developed autistic men in general the first amendment protects words that persuade, not words that incite and he wields twitter like a very expensive inciting megaphone

mostly write things that make me both really happy and cry now, i think that’s a good thing

changed banner to honour my heritage

i've always liked how someone described jack bauer's way of being in the world: he knows he can't win, but he still tries to i think about this scene a lot: the rules were written by women a lot smarter than me, but my heart has never been able to live by them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xj-a1n8puI

something i have been working on in one form or another for 2 years: rape culture in silicon valley, in particular TPOT, Vibecamp, Effective Altruism and Rationalism https://theasterisk.substack.com/p/reflecting-on-a-few-very-very-strange

something i have been working on in one form or another for 2 years: rape culture in silicon valley, in particular TPOT, Vibecamp, Effective Altruism and Rationalism https://open.substack.com/pub/theasterisk/p/reflecting-on-a-few-very-very-strange?r=8qt9d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

being in writing flow is way better than sex

watching the frontline 9/11 doc and it's crazy the GOP never caught heat for letting bin laden escape from tora bora