Category Steve’s Blog

The Ghost Foundation is Moving to Singapore

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…

My love / hate relationship with wearables

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…

Open source has reach, but no influence

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…

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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…

40 Million European Refugees

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…

Thank You, Part 2. Joomla’s 10th Birthday.

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…