Community is not enough
They can invite to join the party, but you are still going to need those nasty capitalists to fill your cup »
Let's fend off Big Tech and find a way to fund FOSS we all can be fond of
Oh, ‘TANSTAFOSS.’ Means -There ain’t no such thing as Free/Open Source Software.’ And isn’t," I added, pointing to a MIT License included in the npm package I just downloaded, “or these cloud SAAS would cost half as much. Was reminding her that anything free costs twice as much in long run or turns out worthless.” “An interesting philosophy.” “Not philosophy, fact. One way or other, what you get, you pay for.” I fanned air. “Was Earthside once and heard expression ‘Free as air.’ This air isn’t free, you pay for every breath." - Silicon Valley is a Harsh Mistress »
Thinking heads are not in the clouds
It’s the data, stupid! »
Can FOSS eat the world?
Yesterday I got the first (paid!) request to add a feature on Hub20 from someone who is working on what is likely to become the first Hub20 production instance.
It’s a simple feature, driven by his need to have some functionality that is not provided yet. He could’ve looked at current state of the work and said “oh, it sucks because it doesn’t do X”. He could’ve used that (temporary) failure to address his need, and justify going to some “established” business. Or he could’ve just taken the code and tried to “compete” - it’s open source after all.
»A proposal for a decentralized BAT cartel
Can we turn an utility token into a dividend-paying security? »
Loopring Arb checker - or trading hours of fun work to save on minutes of tedious calculation
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that any single man in possession of a good Uniswap trade opportunity, must be in want of Layer-2 solution to avoid gas fees »
Federations and Identity
How do you do, fellow kids? What is the deal with topic-specific instances? »
Full-text RSS in Hugo
Why should you use a Static Site Generator for your blog? Because otherwise you’d have nothing to blog about. »