Sarah K Moir
@smore.bsky.social
Endlessly curious about docs, music, data, ethics in tech, inclusivity, borders on the web, and so much more. Can be spotted taking the bus to the club. Technical writer in SF. She/her.
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Sarah K Moir
@smore.bsky.social
· Oct 13
This is important
Sarah Moir is a tech writer in San Francisco, CA, USA. Read the output of her curiosity-driven research into music metadata, technical writing practices, documentation for startups and SaaS, data anal...
thisisimportant.net
I also have a blog at thisisimportant.net, please motivate me to publish more than once every 6 months (oh no)
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it’s almost like when something is considered really important people… read it for themselves
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
November 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM
it’s almost like when something is considered really important people… read it for themselves
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"The new NRF report acknowledges that retailers do not 'have a unified industry database collecting retail crime data,' and many retailers lack 'the resources or capabilities to collect and track retail theft.' Yet the NRF still issued a report claiming shoplifting has increased 93% in four years."
Lies, damn lies, and shoplifting statistics
For 32 years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) — the lobbying group representing major retailers in the United States — has produced the "National Retail Security Survey." The survey, widely cited...
popular.info
November 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"The new NRF report acknowledges that retailers do not 'have a unified industry database collecting retail crime data,' and many retailers lack 'the resources or capabilities to collect and track retail theft.' Yet the NRF still issued a report claiming shoplifting has increased 93% in four years."
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one of my niche interests is music data analysis... a couple months ago I gave a lightning talk about music metadata and finally finished writing up all the details for my blog:
thisisimportant.net/posts/music-...
thisisimportant.net/posts/music-...
Music metadata: What it is and why it matters
What music metadata is, how digital streaming providers (DSPs) create acoustic, explicit, and cultural music metadata, what music metadata is used for, why music metadata matters to listeners, and how...
thisisimportant.net
October 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
one of my niche interests is music data analysis... a couple months ago I gave a lightning talk about music metadata and finally finished writing up all the details for my blog:
thisisimportant.net/posts/music-...
thisisimportant.net/posts/music-...
constantly internally raving about how good this extension is and didn't do enough raving about it externally: www.libraryextension.com
any page that you go look at a book, it will search your local library catalog and tell you if it has it!
any page that you go look at a book, it will search your local library catalog and tell you if it has it!
Library Extension (for web browsers)
Library Extension lets you instantly see book and eBook availability from your local library
www.libraryextension.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
constantly internally raving about how good this extension is and didn't do enough raving about it externally: www.libraryextension.com
any page that you go look at a book, it will search your local library catalog and tell you if it has it!
any page that you go look at a book, it will search your local library catalog and tell you if it has it!
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@sfmta.bsky.social please please run more N trains at rush hour, I’d like to be less physically close to my fellow commuters on a regular basis.
October 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
@sfmta.bsky.social please please run more N trains at rush hour, I’d like to be less physically close to my fellow commuters on a regular basis.
I also have a blog at thisisimportant.net, please motivate me to publish more than once every 6 months (oh no)
This is important
Sarah Moir is a tech writer in San Francisco, CA, USA. Read the output of her curiosity-driven research into music metadata, technical writing practices, documentation for startups and SaaS, data anal...
thisisimportant.net
October 13, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I also have a blog at thisisimportant.net, please motivate me to publish more than once every 6 months (oh no)
for folks in the SF bay area, I restarted my monthly events (mostly shows, but also book talks and more) newsletter a few months ago: buttondown.com/see-moir-mus...
See Moir Music
A monthly newsletter about shows I recommend in the San Francisco Bay Area, featuring music recommendations, music-related events, and other anecdotes and links.
buttondown.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:17 AM
for folks in the SF bay area, I restarted my monthly events (mostly shows, but also book talks and more) newsletter a few months ago: buttondown.com/see-moir-mus...
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Just 10 members of Congress have even dared to call Israel's mass murder in Gaza a genocide. Meanwhile, they're straight up murdering journalists. The gulf between what's happening and what most of our leaders will acknowledge is so remarkably vast.
August 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Just 10 members of Congress have even dared to call Israel's mass murder in Gaza a genocide. Meanwhile, they're straight up murdering journalists. The gulf between what's happening and what most of our leaders will acknowledge is so remarkably vast.
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How much more evidence of genocide do Western governments and press need to acknowledge reality?
August 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
How much more evidence of genocide do Western governments and press need to acknowledge reality?
and also check out sharing and reuse to make sure your posts can't go where you don't want them to go
PSA for anyone using instagram, go to settings and turn off location sharing cause your posts and stories show where you are down to the block now
August 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
and also check out sharing and reuse to make sure your posts can't go where you don't want them to go
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pjreddie, who made the best real-time computer vision system, epically explaining that he quit AI because the primary use case was killing people
May 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
pjreddie, who made the best real-time computer vision system, epically explaining that he quit AI because the primary use case was killing people
Just got back from a trip so now I have like 10 emails from each company I interacted with asking how my trip was... can we not do CSAT like this, please?
August 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Just got back from a trip so now I have like 10 emails from each company I interacted with asking how my trip was... can we not do CSAT like this, please?
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fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.
going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.
if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!
reposts from tech folks appreciated <3
going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.
if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!
reposts from tech folks appreciated <3
July 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.
going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.
if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!
reposts from tech folks appreciated <3
going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.
if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!
reposts from tech folks appreciated <3
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the two news reading personas in 2025
July 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
the two news reading personas in 2025
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the scope and scale of ICE Air is not well understood, and the agency likes it that way
as a Plane Guy, I am both in awe of the logistical complexity involved and deeply saddened to see that effort and aviation in general weaponized against humanity in such a brutal yet mostly invisible way
as a Plane Guy, I am both in awe of the logistical complexity involved and deeply saddened to see that effort and aviation in general weaponized against humanity in such a brutal yet mostly invisible way
July 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
the scope and scale of ICE Air is not well understood, and the agency likes it that way
as a Plane Guy, I am both in awe of the logistical complexity involved and deeply saddened to see that effort and aviation in general weaponized against humanity in such a brutal yet mostly invisible way
as a Plane Guy, I am both in awe of the logistical complexity involved and deeply saddened to see that effort and aviation in general weaponized against humanity in such a brutal yet mostly invisible way
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It seems that only the science community is noticing that NIH and NSF budgets are cut 40% and 55% in the budget bill, respectively. If you live in Maine, West Va, Pennsylvania, Alabama, or Louisiana, CALL YOUR SENATOR as they could make a difference. See below.
prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org/politics/202...
Will the Senate Save NIH?
Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.
prospect.org
June 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
It seems that only the science community is noticing that NIH and NSF budgets are cut 40% and 55% in the budget bill, respectively. If you live in Maine, West Va, Pennsylvania, Alabama, or Louisiana, CALL YOUR SENATOR as they could make a difference. See below.
prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org/politics/202...
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Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.