My love letter to all my fellow twitterers… With love and gratitude for Michael Stipe and REM. That’s great! It starts with a joke tweet trolls and bots, an offer made And Elon Musk is not afraid Eye if a hurricane, listen to the staff chur…
My love letter to all my fellow twitterers… With love and gratitude for Michael Stipe and REM. That’s great! It starts with a joke tweet trolls and bots, an offer made And Elon Musk is not afraid Eye if a hurricane, listen to the staff chur…
Last week Sherri and I met with my neurologist to review the findings of blood and cerebral-spinal fluid lab analyses. I received a diagnosis of Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. If you ever watched The West Wing, you might recall thi…
Recently Coraline Ehmke announced a new software license, the Hippocratic License, a modified MIT License, amended “to limit the impact of the unethical use of open source software.” Coraline states that she intends to submit the license to…
The purpose of this post is to publicly document what I understand regarding the problematic behavior of prominent tech feminist activist and diversity consultant Valerie Aurora. It is not meant to be an unimpeachable accounting but more of…
The following is the text of the keynote I gave at this year’s grand final for Open Source Bridge on 29 June, 2018. See also Audrey’s post Saying goodbye to Open Source Bridge. 10 years ago planning for the first Open Source Bridge began. 1…
tldr: Patreon is changing their fee structure, in part, because the batching of pledge payments from one patron to multiple creators and the use of Patreon balance to pay pledges without processing an external payment requires “holding fund…
My good friend and colleague Audrey Eschright runs indie publishing company Recompiler Media, which produces the feminist tech zine Recompiler and a companion podcast of the same name that I co-host. It also publishes important books such a…
(If you like this post, you might also like Using Zapier to import GitHub issues into OmniFocus.) I use OmniFocus for personal task-tracking and Zapier to automate work when possible. One way I use these two tools in combination is to autom…
I use OmniFocus for personal task-tracking and Zapier to automate work when possible. I also coordinate open source work on GitHub. Recently I was wondering if there was a way to make OmniFocus automatically import any GitHub issue assigned…
On Saturday, Recompiler Media, which publishes a print and online magazine as well as a podcast (hosted by me) turned two years old. Yay! Audrey reports about year two accomplishments: I’m very proud to be producing a podcast component of t…
Update 17:15 PDT 2017-04-12: The FCOP has been modified since I wrote the analysis below. I do not believe any of the updates resolve any of the concerns I raise below. If you’re curious about which version I analyzed, it was probably commi…