A writeup of my talk at DevOpsNotts, about the dependency-management-data project and how to use it to understand your internal and external dependencies.
Dave Winer posted a 12-minute audio recording on his blog, addressed to me but applicable to everyone who is creating tools for the social web. Listening to it, I have a bunch of thoughts. In this post, I just want to start with server-to-server ActivityPub, and leave some of the β¦
I recently listened to Katie Rose Guest Pryal on Camille PagΓ‘nβs podcast, You Should Write a Book, talking about how she found the throughline in her work and life. (Just listen to her articulate it on the podcast. I am afraid if I try to sum it up, Iβll get it wrong.)
This guide to a US online βchild safetyβ law written for young people, explaining why they should in fact oppose it, is remarkable for an unexpected reason:
Back with some updates: Twitter fixed, Threads added, new Lemmy support. You should get the update automatically. No idea how well the Lemmy stuff works between instances. Itβs a start.
The first time I heard about Secure Scuttlebut, or SSB, I thought it was the coolest idea. Let people moving around from place to place be the transmission mechanism for a network. Facebook over sneakernet! I love protocols and this one triggered some sort of itch with the β¦
Earlier this week PT over at Adafruit published an interesting post on the evolving relationship between some of the larger open source hardware companies and open source itself. The post catalogs various ways in which three marquee open source hardware companies - Arduino, β¦
Once again, it is time for the US Copyright Office to revisit its decision to legalize breaking Digital Rights Management (DRM) for specific purposes. The default rule in the United States is that breaking digital locks on copyright-protected works is illegal, so the β¦
Thanks for the reply, Marty. I've put my copy of the code on Github, critiques welcome of course. I'm definitely interested in collaborating, the alternative would be getting an account on your git repository if you'd like to keep it close.