In this episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with Matt Medeiros, who has built his career by being friendly, helpful and sharing everything he learns. We talk about his surprise video review of PublishPress and how being generous built…
In the first episode of the OSTraining Podcast, I talk with David Bisset about how he grew WordCamp Miami into one of the world’s biggest WordCamps, with 800+ attendees. He also shares how it shaped his career and plans for…
I drive our kids to the school bus stop every morning (yes, that’s very American, I know). This morning, as I’m pulling out of the garage, I get a notification on my phone: Your destination is 9 minutes away What…
Today the Ghost Foundation announced that it is moving to Singapore. This is a very unusual move in the world of open source. Here are the headquarters of some other major software foundations: How unusual? Here are the headquarters of…
I applied to speak at WordCamp Miami in 2015 and again in 2016. Last year, I was lucky and got accepted. This year, I was lucky and didn’t get accepted.
Last Christmas, I got a Fitbit as a gift. This Christmas, I got an email saying that my 4th Fitbit has shipped. The devices were great and the customer support was excellent, but the devices were just fragile. That pretty much…
All the focus on WordPress’ new desktop app has been about its use of Javascript. I think that’s missing the bigger picture. Brian Krogsgard’s Post Status newsletter has an interesting quote from Matt Terenzio:
I joined Peter Bui on episode 99 of the Joomla Beat Podcast to talk about how OSTraining started, how we run the site, and what we've learned about building and keeping a valuable membership.
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…