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Ubuntu

About 15 or 16 years ago (yikes!) I was running a software training session in Florida and got to chatting with a technician that worked at that location. When he found out that I was into computers he became very excited and got out an Ubuntu live CD, put it

Visioning

About five years ago I was taking a break from work and surfing Reddit when I landed on an article about climate change. It wasn't the first one I'd read, nor was I oblivious to the problem previous to that, but it was the first time

Unpopular Opinions: On Media Specificity and Digital Preservation

As a publisher, I spend a lot of my time considering how to structure arguments for both print and electronic formats. How to make content readable, effective. The mechanics of the text. The underling style. How an author's vision will show on a page or on a screen.

Lifehacking

There was a phase several years back where "lifehacking" was a big thing, at least in the tech space. Lifehacker was a very popular website created and maintained by Gina Trapani, who also released several books related to the topic. They included tips and tricks on how to

Best Practices?

The software industry is a noisy and frantic place, and I've noticed that I'm not immune to the chaos. I wrote in a previous post about the damage that I think is being done by an outdated notion of software as an inaccessible field to many

Software is for You

It's been a dreary time for many, many reasons. So I thought I'd highlight a positive trend that I've been watching in the tech space lately. And that's a real focus on applying technology to fields and problem spaces where it can