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July, 2015

Market source: an open source ecosystem that pays

Open source is a transformative model for building software. However, there are a few important problems with it, including but not limited to: "Libre" has become synonymous with "no recurring license", meaning it's hard for vendors to make money from open source software in a scalable way. As a result, "Open source ...
July 19, 2015

Two years of being on the #indieweb

For the last two years, I haven't directly posted a single tweet on Twitter, a single post on Facebook or LinkedIn, or a photo on Flickr. Instead, I publish on my own site at werd.io, and syndicate to my other services. If Flickr goes away, I keep all my photos. If ...
July 11, 2015

Let's expand the Second Amendment to include encryption.

The German media is up in arms today because both German politicians and journalists were surveilled by the United States. Meanwhile, Germany is being sued by Reporters Without Borders this week for intercepting email communications. Over in the UK, Amnesty International released a statement yesterday after learning that their communications ...
July 3, 2015

Just zoom out.

Sometimes it's important to step out of your life for a while. I spent the last week in Zürich, reconnecting with my Swiss family in the area. A long time ago, I named an open source software platform after a nearby town that my family made their home hundreds of years ago: ...
July 2, 2015