Zinzy Waleson

Designer & facilitator
East side of Amsterdam

Hello, I’m Zinzy (she/they). I build digital products, currently serving as Product & Design Manager at Leeruniek. I’ve been building websites, products, and teams for 15 years. I moonlight as a queer facilitator with Vine & Fig and Queer Salon. I live in Amsterdam’s finest neighborhood with my dynamite partner.

This is my personal site, a place I come to link and think. It contains a changelog with casual updates on a variety of subjects, as well as a collection of loosely-related notes and things I watch, read, and listen to. This space is designed like a scavenger hunt. A good place to start is my now page.

Learn more about my work, or contact me.

Changelog

May 14, 2022 00:00

Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers is nothing but a delight.
May 12, 2022 19:57

Liked Podcast 'Atlas'
May 11, 2022 20:15

Liked Look at this fucking writer: Roxane Gay
May 3, 2022 08:12

Replied to My IndieWebCamp experience

Great work on setting up your first personal website, Deborah, and welcome to the IndieWeb! Watching my personal Internet heroes help you wade into the waters of independent web publishing was so refreshing for me. Not all corners of the Internet are welcoming to new faces, but I hope you had as great a time as I had at our first IndieWebCamp!
May 1, 2022 08:30

Liked Tollwerk Farbsystem
April 30, 2022 00:00

RSVP'd yes to Homebrew Website Club Europe

RSVP’d to my first-ever Homebrew get-together on May 4th. I’m curious to see who will be there, and a tad nervous about not being dorky enough. A while ago I made the distinction between Anja and myself by saying she’s a full-on dork, and I’m a dork with a hint of cool because I’m in IT, and then she rolled her eyes at me by using her eyes and, really, her entire head.
April 20, 2022 19:21

Replied to Radiolab episode 'NULL'

One of the most endearing aspects of working with engineers is the disappointment in their faces every time they learn that a problem was produced by their own typo. I can’t imagine how the person responsible for the typo at the DMV must feel.
April 16, 2022 22:34

Replied to IndieWeb browsing

Much like you, I very much enjoy browsing the IndieWeb using Indieweb webrings. When I stumbled upon your post, and saw my website listed as one of your new finds, my heart skipped a beat. Since I don’t make an effort to be found on the Internet, I forget people ever even find my website. I imagine this is what it must feel like to make contact again with another human after an apocalypse, divided by 1,000.
April 16, 2022 00:00

Today, during my Saturday morning coffee run, I bumped into a Dutch-Sri Lankan acquaintance. My favorite barista took one look at us and said “are you sisters?” She then got embarrassed and immediately went on a lunch break. It was refreshing to experience such an event in the presence of another person of color.
April 15, 2022 20:38

Liked Neske Beks: 'Sommige woorden zijn aan mijn schors blijven plakken'
April 13, 2022 09:29

Liked Hoe je je aandacht terugverovert op de internetvampiers
April 10, 2022 19:21

Replied to The New York Dream of Cheap Rent and No Roommates? It’s Over.

I feel sorry for everyone who’s in an unstable rental situation. These pictures remind me of Sannah Kvist’s All I Own.
April 10, 2022 14:16

Bookmarked dr.amy.gy
April 10, 2022 13:07

Bookmarked silviamaggi.com
April 9, 2020 08:13

I was invited to share my experience as a queer Catholic Afropean on Vine & Fig’s podcast Tabard Inn. Listen to the episode.