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.”
- Wikipedia Is a Privilege
Originally written as an essay response for ENGL-450 Free and Open Source Culture at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Growing up with easy access to the Internet grants the privilege of experiencing effortless knowledge and high availability of …
- What Does It Mean to Be an American?
I can’t help but feel this period in history is significant, if only for what is yet to come of this global political climate. Each day I read the news, a mix of positive and negative connotations blurs through my subconscious: paragraphs of words …
- Six Months Later: 3 Things I Learned From Deleting Facebook
Six months ago, I deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts. Beyond data privacy concerns, social media became a virtual band-aid applied to moments of weakness and sadness for me. I became more aware of the effects of social media on my mood and …
- 2017 - My Year in Review
I can’t remember how writing an annual reflection became a tradition, but after writing them for the last two years, it is now a habit. Every time I look back on all that the last year brought into my life, it is surreal. Many things that happened, I …
- How a Smart Phone Makes Time Irrelevant
It’s 2pm in the afternoon and the weather is becoming cold after so long. On this brisk November day, an old professor steps out in the corner lobby of the college. The golden rays of the sun cast a warm, radiant glow, leaving a bright, inviting air. …
- What I Discovered in Tirana, Albania
The past few months have brought many changes for me. I traveled throughout Europe to experience some of the open source conferences and communities across the continent. Along the way, I met incredible people with powerful stories about their own …
- 2016 – My Year in Review
Before looking too far ahead to the future, it’s important to spend time to reflect over the past year’s events, identify successes and failures, and devise ways to improve. Describing my 2016 is a challenge for me to find the right words for. This …
- 2015 - My Year in Review
I originally began drafting this post 900 miles away from my current location. It was an hour until the New Year and I was trying to put together a rough outline of the things that made 2015 such an incredible year for me. However, for reasons I …
- Thirteen Year Legacy: Last.fm Downfall?
The Last.fm logo. Source: Xfdr (http://www.xfdrmag.net/ive-had-the-last-of-this-why-the-new-last-fm-layout-sucks/) Last.fm is a web service for users to track and share their music tastes with friends in an easy, simple way. A single play of a song …
- Three Reasons I Love Open Source
Open Source User 🔗 I am a user of open source software. My earliest experiences with open source software was with the Minecraft server software Bukkit as a kid, when I was attempting to make a cool game server for friends. I started using Fedora in …