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I found an interesting list of possible Head of Community interview questions: LinkedIn If I was hiring a Head of Community, I’d ask these questions: 1.

I was looking at the Webflow Analyze report of top pages on the OpenSSL Foundation webpage and noticed we have a lot of 404s: A 404 means someone arrived via a broken or missing URL.

Do you know how splashing a little water on your skin helps keep you cool on a hot day?

Using Google as a spell checker, I saw this "curious" prompt.

OpenSSL’s documentation is a bit of a mess.

I guess I always knew the Declaration of Independence must have gone through a few drafts before it was approved by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.

A couple years ago I asked How’s business at Stack Overflow?

This post was provoked by a recent installment of Jillian Bejtlich’s excellent newsletter, The Community Nerd: thecommunitynerd.com The Maintenance Crew Problem What if your engaged users are actually infrastructure, not audience?

Kindle with an important notification about a new book from . . .

Earlier in the week my family visited the Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Northern Ireland on the recommendation of a couple of people I visited in Dublin.

Issue backlogs have a negative impact on open source communities that isn't particularly visible.

In recent years Joy and I have used a phrase “shocking but not surprising” more frequently than we could have predicted.

I studied Atmospheric Sciences at UCLA.

I used to read constantly.

I ended up writing a review of a movie I don’t much like.

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@ionica/116402359721533525 The OpenSSL Foundation is releasing a board game today!

Happy World Quantum Day to those who do and do not celebrate.

I was thinking about this kind of thing before I read your post.

On the wall behind my desk, I display LEGO models of Apollo mission spacecraft.

For a long time hand axes, AKA bifaces, were used to butcher animals, cut wood, dig, drill holes and make fire.

So I watched one half of football this season.

I see it's once again time to post this: https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives

The big deal for OpenSSL 4.0 is that it will remove features.

The video from my @fosdem talk, How the OpenSSL community was built on Heartbleed, is now up!

Strange what brings me out of lurk mode: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/434509/can-we-not-do-over-a-year-ago-please/438041#438041

This post isn’t about game 7 of the 2025 World Series when the Blue Jays nearly won in the bottom of the 9th.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115852927913242505 One eye-opening thing I discovered when I started working at Stack Overflow was how many junk questions were filtered out automatically by the software.

I'm going to speak at FOSDEM about how the biggest disaster to hit OpenSSL revived the community.

It appears my favorite source for the shrug emoticon has gone out of business.

When I was trying to make a go of freelancing last year, I directed my clients to Discourse, which is far and away the best community platform available.

In my State of the OpenSSL Community talk, I compared the popularity of Taylor Swift when measured by Google search trends to Heartbleed.

The OpenSSL Conference was a great success and I’m looking through the data we collected from attendees.

I gave a talk about the state of the OpenSSL community.

Recently I got my first crown.

Had a lovely evening while playing an experimental board game on post-quantum #cryptography with people from Tampere University, the OpenSSL Foundation and Cybernetica.

When I was in Little League every team had “that kid”.

. . . before she released her first album.

I'm giving a talk at the OpenSSL Conference and this is one of my potential slides.

The OpenSSL Library continues to depend on outside contributions.

Finishing with that alleged backgammon board is a nice touch.

As Einstein might have said, "AI does not play dice." https://meta.jlericson.com/t/ai-cant-understand-dice/443

George Stocker got me looking at AI-generated dice and I’m fascinated/horrified.

@jericson I'd simply start with "does everyone know what a sizzle reel is?"

Back of the envelope math: Americans are as likely to know what a "sizzle reel' is as not.

There were 7 first-time contributors to the OpenSSL Library in June and one second-time contributor.

I recorded a "State of the OpenSSL community" for 3.5.

I think Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies are terrible, cynical, ineffective and a giant waste of money.

We've been collecting user stories in June, but there's still time for you to add yours!

This sounds promising!

This sounds promising!