Updates:
The server will be down on 2026-03-23 from 0200 to 0600 (UTC-6)
The server and site will be undergoing maintenance, due to bring stability improvements to the site.
For more, check our status page.
We have some pretty big plans for this space, and we can't wait to start including you, dear reader, into what we've been working on.
In the coming weeks, we will be sharing a number of simple CLI & TUI utilities written in Go, a re-imagining of a previously released photo-zine, a number of essay's Emi has been working on for a while, and much more.
Ari has been working on a remake of her Transcend 2024 photo-zine, with higher resolution printing templates, a new distribution point, and (hopefully) a limited print run!
The original run of the zine was produced using low-quality xerox's from the library. Each zine was printed on a single 8.5”x11” paper, single sided, and hand folded over the course of a few weeks. A print template for a larger, higher resolution, and multi-page document is long overdue. Moreover, the original photos were taken with a sepia color treatment as an artistic choice, which the original printing was not able to replicate (translating each photo to a limited contrast black and white).
Several customers noted legibility issues with the original issue due to image and font size. It is my aim to resolve these however well I can given my limited material resources. Moreover, it was always the intention to release the print ready files for both mini and full size self-printed zine distribution. The redux will provide higher quality open source standard files for no cost.
Now more than ever, I feel this zine has at least something worth being said. – Ari
Eric has been working on a review of Ari's “Death & Rebirth”, with additional artist commentary!
The story of the production on this record is just so interesting. It'll be interesting to write down my thoughts on it! – Eric
Not much to say on this front as of yet, more to come!
Ari has been working on a TUI implemented in Go of a simple issue tracking solution based on the Poorman's Issue Tracker!
issues-go(or possiblytissues, I'm undecided), is a simple TUI for managing plain text flat file data structures on disk for tracking issues in code. While the software can work for just about any “todo” like structure, it is designed to make life easier for low-scale and low-tech software developers.Designed with VCS integration, speed, and portability in mind, the project aims to provide an easier to implement solution. Compiling to less than ~10mb to a single stateless binary, it aims to be incredibly portable and able to run on just about any modern hardware, without the need for a centralized server. -Ari
Ari has also been developing a simple TUI application written in Go for displaying ping results on a chart – therefore helping developers and gamers determine what is going on with their latency. She's made it before in many other languages, but this is the first time it's worth sharing – or so she says!
pingois a Go reimagining of a previous implementation of this latency charting solution written in python,pingstats. Wherepingstatswas slow, under-performant, and buggy,pingois limited in scope, fast, and highly tested. Furthermore, it re-does whatpingstatstried to do, becoming an extensible module for use in subsequent projects.Where the design ethos of
pingotruly diverges frompingstatshowever is in its sheer simplicity of scope.pingojust shows latency values on a chart, and lets the user include it in other terminal applications. As such, the project does not currently target Windows based platforms.
Ari is currently hacking away at what will become our git endpoint. She's caught between hosting a full-blown Gogs instance that mirrors our internal repositories, or a much simpler Soft-Serve based solution – with much fewer bells and whistles.
More on this topic very soon.
For our initial repository hosting, see git.crowcollective.space
We feel it is only right to give you, dear reader, a vague understanding of our goals.
No one voice fully represents a whole truth of what The Crow Collective is, and therefore it is vital that I own my role. As the primary writer and community builder of The Crow Collective I, Emily (she/they) acknowledge that I occupy both the space of a white colonialist on Turtle Island, and the descendant of members of the Metis Nation. I walk through the world through a number of dualities, and work to represent this in my writing.
The Crow Collective aims to use the dreaming of the mad, the crippled, and the ostracized to envision a better world. Through careful planning, bolstering resiliency through solidarity, and the power of joy in all its queer and mad ways. We aim to achieve this future through the merging of art, technology, and radical reimagining of what defines the status quo.
Art, joy, and creation is how we engage directly with changing the world.
Signed, – The Crow Collective