On Snowballs, Napoleons, and sharks
A new podcast series has reminded me how open source community meetups saved so many people, including me, from business networking hell.
All posts tagged: open source communities
A quick hypothetical situation, or, your crash introduction to the real world
Here's just one example of how the Online Safety Bill, in practice, will impact your Mastodon server.
Online harms are hard. Meet a woman who is harder.
Meet my friend Mika, whose four-year ordeal at the hands of a deranged and unaccountable stalker has influenced some of my thinking on policy. It should influence yours too.
A little story about my book and a troublemaker who tried to derail it, as you do
When I say "these things only happen to me", this is what I mean.
Russian plugin, go fuck yourself
This week 43% of the sites on the open web were briefly breached by Russian military propaganda, and that is not even the worst part of it.
The speculative fiction novel I want to read this year
Something I read in the news inspired this prompt for a story about open source communities and the game of politics. Perhaps you'll be the one to write it. Or stop it from ever happening.
A natter on regulations, freedom of expression, and open source software
My friend Morten Rand-Hendriksen and I chatted about legislative threats to freedom of expression, and their potential impacts on open source software communities and projects.
The world’s most dangerous tech project
It might be yours.
Conference talk: WordPress’s role in a changing web + my retirement from open source
Updated May 2021.
About that WordPress autoupdates thing.
There was a call for comments ahead of this weekend’s scheduled panel discussion at WCUS on the autoupdates plan. I’ve been asked to respond to it from my perspective, so I will.
What I learned in the Mozilla Open Leaders initiative
This week wraps up my training in the Mozilla Open Leaders initiative. It’s been an amazing, very intense 14 weeks of learning, all in support of the team in the cross-project CMS privacy group.
Castles and unicorns: my legacy to the WordPress community
One of my proudest professional achievements was selecting and wrangling speakers for three years of WordCamp Edinburgh. Over the past week, videos of 2017’s talks and most of 2018’s talks have been posted at wordpress.tv.