DRI

Out sailing in Marblehead, Massachusetts, watching another boat catch the same wind.

I believe any Open Source project with a commercial or institutional funding ecosystem should publish an official contribution record: who contributes, how much and over what period, what kind of work they do, which parts of the project they work on, and,

An Open Source project contains several economic goods. Its code, infrastructure, services, maintainer time, and commercial ecosystem each behave differently. Treating all of them as a single commons hides who pays today, who controls access, and who need

Stefaan used an ESP32 to build a light pole with LED strips that react to music. When it stopped working, Ben started tinkering.

Only when you're camping does washing the dishes become part of the fun.

When you're camping, coffee takes three times as long to make but tastes three times as good.

Anneleen gets the aperitif ready in her van while it rains outside.

Open Source is usually described as a licensing model, a development model, or a production model. All three descriptions are useful, but they leave something out. Every Open Source ecosystem is also a cost-allocation system. Keeping software relevant and

I added a new feature to my blog: a list of related posts at the bottom of each post. I implemented it using embeddings, and this note documents how. I looked at how other content management systems identify related posts: most use shared tags, backlinks,

If AI can generate an application from a description, is software still worth anything? I have lived with a version of that question longer than most. I released Drupal for free more than twenty-five years ago, and later co-founded Acquia, which has grown