This is my soap box. These articles are more personal and intimate. The best way to describe this category is “the way I see things.”
- One Day
It has been a minute. If you look at my blog archives, my last post went up in 2024. Recently, I decided it was time for a massive digital renovation: I completely migrated this blog from WordPress to Hugo using my own theme. Fortunately, I was able …
- "I Am the Wilderness": On Trust & Community
Brené Brown suggests seven elements to trust in her book, "Braving the Wilderness". You can remember these elements as an acronym: "BRAVING".
- Middle Path.
The answer to solve my dilemma of two split paths was to find the middle path. Those two separate paths were my personal life and my career.
- Write Yourself Into Obsolescence.
A brief meditation on why you should write yourself into obsolescence and also what kind of writing matters most when documenting yourself and your responsibilities.
- Scrub Gently: On Data Scrubbing in a Community Survey.
Should we be too quick to discard negative, harmful responses in a community survey? This short review considers a time when an Open Source community is evaluating its community with a survey. What did we decide to do in the end?
- CrystalCraftMC Forums Sunset
On 6 February 2022, the CrystalCraftMC forums officially closed down. This announcement shares history and why the decision was made.
- What if Open Source Dependencies Weren't Software?
What if dependencies took a human-centered, or community-centered, approach? We describe dependencies in machine terms, but we miss something.
- Computer Human.
Recently a Spotify playlist curated into my feed. The playlist was a perfect match for my soul when I needed it most. This led me to wonder, who or what curated this playlist? What caused it to appear in my feed that day?
- Your Software Freedom Is Not My Software Freedom: A Reflection on Chadwick Boseman
Trigger warning: Grief, police violence, death. This blog post was first written on August 28th, 2020. Today is a sad day. Chadwick Boseman is dead. At 43 years old, he lost a terminal battle with stage IV colon cancer. As his great light dims, I am left to wonder what
- Facilitation, Collaboration, and Webcams: A Story About Principles of Authentic Participation
This is the story about the facilitation of the Principles of Authentic Participation. This blog post is a story, or perhaps open source lore.