Another highlight of OSCON: The release (w00t!) of Ben and Fitz‘s new book, Team Geek: A Software Developer’s Guide to

I got hoaxed :-).

Update 2012-08-02: Thanks Brian Fitzpatrick, Jim Blandy, Jen Mankoff, Roland McGrath, Justin Erenkrantz, and Noah Friedman for congratulating Bradley by

Mac Slocum of O’Reilly Media interviewed me last week at OSCON 2012 about open source software in the U.S. government — I

Identica, Twitter, and similar services tell you how many people are “following” you. Of course, it just means “are subscribed

It’s happening, right on schedule: First the Stop-and-Frisk Watch app was released, to help citizens monitor the New York City

Circumvention Tech: (noun) Technology, including software tools, designed to help people circumvent censorship and surveillance by state and non-state actors. Yo,

There’s a disturbing trend in public-interest apps: They’re released for free, but without clear open source licensing or access to

Editor’s note: This is the first guest post on rants.org — it was originally an email Winnie Fung sent, but given that,