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About a year and a half ago, I wrote about a $12 “Gongkai” cell phone (pictured above) that I stumbled across in the markets of Shenzhen, China. My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while bootstrapping…
Michael W Lucas writes books explaining exactly how computers were a mistake. Michael Warren Lucas writes random novels. They both live in the same body. If you’re looking for a specific title, please check the Title Index . To find out when he releases a book, sign up for my topic-specific mailing list .
Progress in the software industry has been crushed under the weight of technical debt accumulated over the last 40 years. The tools, languages, libraries, and platforms we all rely on suffer from massive incidental complexities responsible for billions of dollars in wasted productivity. Anyone who spends any amount of…
What's the first thing you do when you find a bug or see a missing feature in an open source project? Check out the project page and submit a patch!
Technical articles by Kevin Menard. Topics include Ruby, Java, machine learning, and general computing.
Emacs switched the version control system from Bazaar to git yesterday, so now is the time to start hacking away at Emacs. Emacs: The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread If It Wasn’t For The Fact T…
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It's happening. It's the reason that a lot of us came to work for Microsoft, ...
I think this might be my last blog entry on the subject of building SBCL for a while.
Today we are announcing that we are open sourcing the two systems at the heart of our business: SmartDataCenter and the Manta object storage platform . SmartDataCenter is the container-based orchestration software that runs the Joyent public cloud ; we have used it for the better half of a decade to run on-the-metal…
Some thoughts about various payment systems on the internet and how viable they are for open source project support.
Recently I was trying some statistics on the qtbase-module (where QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets and so on lives) and was wondering who made them. Not based on their current paid affilation, like Thiago’s graphs , but if each commit was made by a person coming from KDE.
Two years ago today I released Sidekiq Pro, my commercial extension to Sidekiq, as an experiment to see if I could make OSS development financially viable for individual developers. I had no idea if anyone would trust me and buy it. Can you think of anyone else selling a Rubygem?
In this article, I will tell how I contributed code to Mozilla during a Bug Squashing Party. I hope to provide some tips and advice about how to start contributing to a Mozilla project (or any other open-source project). I will talk about Firefox and Servo, which, I think, are somehow representative of two common ways…
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A former coworker pointed me to the news today that freshmeat has suddenly ceased operations. I spent the rest of the day flooded with memories and the urge to jot a few of them down before they’re…
Five years ago Debian and most derivatives switched from the standard GNU C Library (GLIBC) to the Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC). Debian is now about to...
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As designers in open source, we’re constantly looking for opportunities to bring the principles of universal access and redistribution to new areas. While the term “open source” may still be mainly associated with code, the value in free collaboration benefits every discipline – particularly design.
As you may or may not be aware, last year I left TV Tropes (TVT) on unfriendly terms. I may have been banned, but the feeling was certainl...
After all the recent NSA revelations, it's been even more important to use Free Software on our mobile phones. Let me express this in another way: We should be very careful about what software we use on a device that is always on and in our pocket 24h a day. Starting from the very basic thing tha...
The other weekend I took some time to play around with the DigitalOcean API, and this is what resulted. The DigitalOcean indicator allows you to monitor and manage your droplets directly from your panel. You can: Quickly see which droplets are active. Reboot, power on, and/or power down you …
Overview Today has been eventful, to say that least. My colleague and I patched several services, re-issued keys for them and started the ...
