- Storytelling: 2023 Was a Quiet Blog Year. in 2024, I Recommit to Storytelling.
When I was a student, I wrote about what I learned, but I stopped writing regularly. Now I want restart my storytelling habits again in 2024.
- "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".
- 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.
- Committee Risk: A Governance Challenge for Open Source
Open Source communities often turn to a committee model for governing their projects. Sometimes it works, but other times it does not. Why?
- A Proposal for the End of Accommodations
Language is powerful. Words are subtle building blocks to how we imagine the world around us. So, with the goal of pursuing more equitable language, I propose the end of accommodations.
- What Is Freedom?
When I first saw the letter asking for Richard Stallman and the FSF Board of Directors resignations with merely five signatures, I knew I had to sign. Not because I knew it would be the popular thing to do. But because it was what was true in my heart. Only
- Take the 2020 #HappinessPacketChallenge!
Happiness Packets are an open source way to say thanks to others. Take the 2020 #HappinessPacketChallenge to spread cheer from 27 April to 3 May!
- DevConf CZ 2020: Play by Play
DevConf CZ 2020 took place from Friday, January 24th to Sunday January 27th in Brno, Czech Republic: DevConf.CZ 2020 is the 12th annual, free, Red Hat sponsored community conference for developers, admins, DevOps engineers, testers, documentation writers and other contributors to open source technologies. The conference includes topics on Linux,