Day 72 of the #100DaysToOffload Series:
I've been living at work for the last four months, and I need that to stop.
Effective reading involves a great deal of work on the reader's part and can't simply be a passive act. It requires actually thinking about what's on the page and making personal connections before the content can really be understood and "learned".
#100DaysToRead
Ending #100DaysToOffload and starting #100DaysToRead, a pursuit of knowledge and more stuff to write about
https://secluded.site/100-days-to-read
@matrix Doctorow was arguing for forced interoperability (regarding antitrust) for a while. e.g. here: https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/06/regulating-big-tech-makes-them-stronger-so-they-need-competition-instead
"How do I get started contributing to open source? What are some good entry-level tasks to work on?"
These are questions I am often asked, so here's the answer for everyone to read:
Scratch your own itches. Find bugs that are causing you problems, conspicuously missing features you would find useful, and implement them - in literally any free/open-source software you're using. Don't worry about not being familiar with the codebase or programming language or whatever, just solve one problem at a time.
Try this: next time you go to report a bug, report it, and immediately start working on a patch which fixes the problem.
Scratching your own itches is the best source of motivation and maximizes your productivity.
Often that means not contributing to my projects at all, if you're asking how to get started with a specific project. Maybe you like it because it's flawless 😉 (hah!), in which case it wouldn't need your help anyway. Go fix something which is bugging you in another project. Spread the contributor wealth around and eventually it'll come back to my projects, too.
You can find a recording of my talk on Small Web at Creative Mornings Istanbul today at https://small-tech.org/events
(The audio is rather hot and there’s an audio mismatch which I’d thought I’d handled in my tests this week – I’m running off a laptop at the moment and it’s having trouble keeping up – but hey, this was the first time doing anything with this new setup so I will tweak as I go.) :)
General-purpose OS, special-purpose OS, and now: vendor-purpose OS
So suddenly there’s a lot of attention around email and it’s exposing how many people in the web community still use Gmail. Like actually trust all your personal information and communication (and that of your potentially marginalised or vulnerable contacts) with Google. 🤮
There are a lot of hard problems and lack of alternatives when it comes to rights-respecting technology. But email (as imperfect as it is) has a fair few affordable alternative providers. Small change, big difference.
RT @MarkoSaric@twitter.com
New post: How to pay your rent with your open source project
Including @Ghost@twitter.com, @discourse@twitter.com, @matrixdotorg@twitter.com, @gitlab@twitter.com and other great, sustainable open source products.
https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-funding
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MarkoSaric/status/1273613098956599302
I appreciated this video because he is articulate, insightful, and talks about how to improve the world in a more subtle way than you may have heard before.
This is the kind of git commit messages I would like to write: https://dhwthompson.com/2019/my-favourite-git-commit
Wait, what's that? An 8GB version of the Pi 4?!
Sweet 😊
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-at-75/
Need to send encrypted emails? #Nextcloud mail uses browser add-in Mailvelope for this, and the latest Mail release improves the integration of this add-in.
https://blog.wuc.me/2020/05/18/nextcloud-mail-mailvelope-refined.html
Nice to see NixNet's Searx instance up and running! Thanks @amolith 😄
Donate to help keep their services online: https://nixnet.services/support/?project=1
Announcing the SourceHut project hub 🎉
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-30-the-sourcehut-hub-is-live/
I don't usually explicitly ask for shares, but this is a big deal for SourceHut - the project hub solves one of our major goals for the alpha. Please help spread the word ❤️