For some reason, I’ve always liked pictures that manage to capture the mood of music. Perhaps it’s because of the
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OpenITP Call for Circumvention Tech Grant Proposals (1st round, 2013)
OpenITP’s first round of 2013 project funding is still open for proposals! The deadline for application is 31 March 2013
Continue readingNew backer reward added in POSS Kickstarter campaign; going for overfunding…
My Kickstarter campaign to update my book Producing Open Source Software has passed the funding threshold — thank you, backers! — and now is
Continue readingKickstarter Campaign for “Producing Open Source Software” 2nd Edition.
I meant to announce this last week, but some very sad circumstances intervened (see the previous blog entry). Now there
Continue readingRemembering Aaron Swartz.
By now anyone reading this blog has already heard the news about Aaron. I already posted an obituary and remembrance
Continue readingThe IRC Curmudgeon.
This post is only here so I can refer others to it from IRC (or from Zulip or any similar
Continue readingHappy 40th Birthday, Ben Collins-Sussman!
Ben Collins-Sussman turns 40 years old today! Do help us celebrate by linking to his birthday page. It’s especially effective
Continue readingIn Memoriam Carl Woese
On the second to last day of 2012, Carl Woese died at the age of 84. I knew it was
Continue readingGabriella Coleman’s “Coding Freedom”
Got my copy of Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking by Prof. Gabriella Coleman: If you’re a hacker
Continue readingNYC Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays start this Dec. 17th.
Something I’ll be at when I’m in New York City on the 3rd Monday of a month: From the description
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