Twenty-two years ago, I sat in the office — actually the bottom two floors of a Victorian home with creaking, carpeted floorboards and an overstuffed kitchen — at Daily Information, the local paper where I worked in Oxford. It was mid-afternoon, and I probably had Dreamweaver …
I cannot start the story where I want to start it, because I have to start it where everyone else who was there starts it. It’s how we calibrate our positions, time-stamped and geo-coordinated to the precise moments and exact locations where each of us was standing when we looked …
Damien Guard is providing a collection of 8×8 graphical fonts for the community, free with attribution. The collection consists of 228 typefaces with 417 fonts.The fonts show up in 199 games / tools (so far).See the details in the post here.
My technology thesis is this:All technology should punch up, not down.It should connect the disconnected. It should empower the disempowered. It should inform the uninformed.It should empower communities that historically have been underrepresented and underserved.It should help …
And just like that, I went back to work. You couldn’t make it up: after 51 weeks of unemployment and job searching, I got multiple freelance contracts in a single week.
Doc Searls writes about what he calls wide news:Local and regional papers covered politics, government, crises, disasters, sports, fashion, travel, business, religion, births, deaths, schools, and happenings of all kinds. They had reporters assigned across all their sections. No …
It looks like the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) “fully intend(s) to weigh in” on the issues raised from the interview with Josef Prusa in the article “When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies”It’s been a month since the article was …
My Steam Deck arrived two months ago, and I’ve been having a blast ever since. I’m not much of a gamer; RimWorld and Skyrim are the only two games I’ve spent more than 100 hours in. I find it hard to play a game without wanting to do game dev instead. But with the Deck, I’ve been …
A few months ago, my Steam Deck arrived. So, obviously, one of the first things I did was play Minetest. Whilst Minetest isn’t available on Steam yet, it is available on Flatpak and so can be installed from desktop mode.
