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:
Richard Best has a really interesting post about how few WordPress developers understand the GPL: Theme and plugin shops deploy a range of approaches as to how they describe the GPL-licensing of their products, from good to not-so-good to bad.…
Stratechery does a good job of distinguishing between a platform (often very closed) and an ecosystem (open source software): I think there is an important distinction between platforms and ecosystems. While these words are often used interchangeably, I think of…