Take a brief look at the web today and you might think open source has a lot of influence: Swift is open source, from Apple. HHVM is open source, from Facebook. Android is open source, from Google. Bootstrap is open…
Welcome to my #firstworldproblems post. I make a good living, sitting At my desk all day. I can take breaks at any time and eat whatever I want. I’ve nothing to complain about except a lack of self-discipline. That freedom…
Amongst all the news of the European refugee crisis, one snippet stood out to me: "When I was a child I was a refugee" Austrians meet Syrians. You don't want to miss @JamesEReynolds story 6:45pm BBC1 pic.twitter.com/DuFgEhr2ke — Julia Macfarlane…
10 years ago, I was standing in a classroom on the north side of Atlanta, Georgia. My job was teaching English to the children from Central America whose parents had flocked to Atlanta, looking for construction jobs during the enormous…
This week, Adobe released a new set of stats about ad blocking. These were the headline figures: Globally, the use of ad blocking software grew by 41% year over year. Usage in the United States grew 48% during the past…
This is a fascinating use of Slack, via Michael Strickland. The NYTimes used Slack to write, edit and publish a live blog of last night’s Republican debate. They wrote a Chrome plugin to connect a Slack channel directly to their…
Back in 2007, Joomla.org decided to stop listing any software that used license keys. They did this because they believed that license keys were incompatible with the GPL license. Fast forward to 2015 and many (most?) commercial WordPress plugins now…
Over the last 5 years, I’ve not missed a single episode of From Our Own Correspondent from the BBC. The brilliance of From Our Own Correspondent is its discipline: Each episode is 30 minutes long. Each episode has 5 segments…
I keep hearing statements like this from open source developers: “This is complex software. If you don’t understand it, you shouldn’t be using it.” “Why not use the terminal to do this? If you’re building a website, it’s your responsibility…
Very. Very popular. DrupalGovCon, the main Drupal event in D.C. every year, is enjoying a record attedance today: