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The premise of copyleft licenses is attractive: Create more open source!

Syndicated This post was featured on opensource.org/maintainers/shazow My first big open source project was urllib3.

I went into a deep research hole trying to discover the origin of the quote: “Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” tl;dr: Earliest online record of this quote is by Vernon Schryver on May 1, 2002.

Let’s compare the possible failure modes of various open social protocols: ActivityPub/Mastodon ATProto/Bluesky Farcaster/Warpcast Some scenarios I’d like to consider: Can my identity be taken away?

Imagine thousands of years in the future, when humanity is dispersed across the stars.

I think of conditioning as a long-term conversation between decentralized components.

I wrote down the names of 5 friends, I’m going to send each of them a gratitude email by the end of the year.

A blockchain like Ethereum1 provides a collectively owned programmable substrate, allowing us to build more decentralized “onchain” applications where the consumers have more agency over how things behave.

“There are no such thing as zero trust assumptions.”

As technological advancements march on, we’re having a lot of very important conversations about what we want out of the platforms we use day to day.

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a technology that exploded in popularity in 2020, taking place almost entirely on the Ethereum network.

For context, this is comparing with my Valve Index which is not very apples-to-apples.

I got into the habit of dumping quick blog post ideas into issues on my blog’s repo.

There are bazillions of sourdough recipes in the wild, foaming with traffic from eager bakers trapped in quarantine, ready for their sourdough starter baby with a punny name to graduate into a tube of sustenance and distraction during dark times.

Proud to be part of the team who built this chonk of vital internet infrastructure. ❤️ Big sincere thank you to our maintainers: @theavalkyrie @sethmlarson @haikuginger @Lukasaoz @sigmavirus24, and to all the other contributors for this very important wor…

I spent fifty hours setting up my new computer, and I feel a mixture of shame and pride about it.

After maintaining a project for many years, maybe you’re no longer using it yourself?

It has been over two months and I feel better.

A case study between Python and Go.

I’ve been meaning to change and improve my master password for years.

When getting started with Go, there is a strong temptation to bring baggage from your previous language.

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In a few months, the first iteration of modern consumer virtual reality headsets are going to start shipping.

The goal of designing a public API response layout is to balance ease of use for consumers with commitment of stability from the provider.

SSH, how does it even?

Helping the future come a little sooner Six years ago, I built a better Python http library.

A letter of concern Hello, John Carmack. (1/3) Everyone has had some time to digest the FB deal now.

Finding the North Star for your career What do I really want?

Lessons learned from five years of maintaining one of the most-used Python libraries.

“What was it like?”

Or, first things I install when I nest into a fresh Apple computing device: Adium Chrome Firefox Clyppan Colloquy Dropbox Growl Homebrew Fink MacPorts MacVim (via Homebrew!)

Every offer you get will include some details and omit others.

We live in a time when cleartext usernames and passwords are leaked on a daily basis.

This approach is similar to FriendFeed’s schemaless database framework.

My strategy as a novice designer is to keep track of some rules of thumb to reduce the probability of making bad mistakes from lack of experience.

Drawing without using reference is one of my favourite hobbies.