2010s

Four years ago, on March 13th in 2017, I woke up for breakfast in the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia & Herzegovina. As I ate breakfast on the morning of March 14th of 2021 in the seemingly eternal era of COVID-19, it struck me.

An amateur license review of the Cryptographic Autonomy License version 1 (CAL-1.0). What makes the CAL-1.0 different from other licenses?

In 2006, Bruce Byfield asked why open source was not on activist agendas. Have things changed in 2019? What did Byfield get right? What did he leave out?

This is an unfinished draft from the end of my 2017 study abroad semester in Dubrovnik, Croatia. It includes a parting memory from Sarajevo, Bosnia.

What is a community and what does it mean to belong to one? What makes a community so important to someone? Read more to understand what community is.

A quick recap of the Sustain OSS 2018 conference, covering topics such as human aspects of governance, financial sustainability models, diversity, and more.

I learned more about a man named Seth Vidal by chance. For Fedora Appreciation Week, I wanted to share a personal story surrounding his life and passing.

What parts of our culture make us proud and content or disappointed and shameful? I started to wonder about my identity and what it means to be an American.

Abysma by Geotic is a cross between electronica and indie pop that pushes us to introspect on ourselves, acknowledge our worst qualities, and recognize they can be overcome. Justin W. Flory reviews the album in his music column, Tergiversate.

Originally published on 19 April 2017 at Medium.com.Republished on 25 October 2021 at jwfblog.wpengine.com. Many times, I’ve sat down to write this. The same number of times, I never finish and delete it all. Many times, I’ve wondered how to say the things I want to say. I’ve been doing