Writings

A few things I have written

Essays

• Sustainability of FOSS: The NGI Ecosystem
• The Whitehouse can close the Barn Door but the horse bolted
• Consent and the Fediverse

2024 Posts

• Many Hats, One Esther
• Solidarity in the times of Fascism
• Corporate vs FOSS and Fediverse Communities
• Some more thoughts on FOSS Sustainability
• The Cobbles: On Bears
• A Few Thoughts on FOSS Sustainabilty
• Legacy is what fills the hole you leave behind
• Transparency isn't for everyone, especially if you care about Privacy
• Legacy and Community
• Consent and the Fediverse part deux: The Opt-out two-shuffle

2023 Posts

• Five Years of NGI Zero

The Cobbles (2023)

A series of posts originally published on the cobbles blog on the Fediverse.

• I'm not going to get better
• FOSS and The Fediverse, the culture's rotten
• Ignoring Boundaries
• Why the cobbles?
• FOSS conferences and COVID
• Seeing the Cobbles

2022 Posts

• Is Google callous or careless with our privacy?
• Google sells my search terms? Quelle surprise!

2021 Posts

• Personal Politics and the bigger picture : Brexit
• The Web and the Magic of Storytelling
• On unintended consequences
• Censorship? Mais Non!
• Parler's poor choices lead to consequences
• Cuckoos and Empire
• The Fragility of Democracy
• Coups and the Social Safety Net
• Yule and Librecast
• Lockdown
• Scotland, Indy and Europe
• Democracy and Plato's cave
• On Losing European Citizenship

Old Writings

• Nominet 4th Annual Conference 2010 Morning Session
• The folly of programming closed source after opening up WWW
• Open Source is freedom of choice, not necessarily a cheaper option
• Social Innovation Camp Scotland
• At Social Innovation Camp
• The Public are Getting Open Source Aware
• Messaging Forum in Edinburgh
• Why I started using Linux
• Ubuntu Linux and Coffeestayne