Bill Hunt – Posts

You should make the timefor this long read from Keyana Sapp about how a few megacorporations bought up all the cookware brands you know and love and enshittified them.

Lately, I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the open source community, and I no longer believe that open source for open source’s sake is inherently good.

I’ve just added two new designs to the stickers available in the shop: Build Small Build Local and I’m From The Government and I’m Here to Help!

Alex Russell does a fantastic job of exposing the cult-like mentality of the JavaScript industry today, and how we’ve lost our way in this space.

In case you missed it, I enjoyed this post from Ed Zitron about the rise of popular but mediocre leadership across industries.

Chris Given talks about his team’s work on IRS Direct File, which allowed the American people to file their taxes for free, no strings attached.

If you’re building or even thinking about social networks, you really need to give this talk from Erin Kissane an hour of your time!

I’ve just released my latest series of shirts, featuring three new designs: I’m From The Government And I’m Here To Help That’s A Problem for Next Fiscal Year Unfunded Mandate Check ‘Em Out!

When I say Go Be Weird, this right here is the stuff I’m talking about.

The CFPB Union has set up a shop to raise funds, and they have some amazing Govpunk shirts!

In my last post, I talked about how to save our world from a consumer standpoint.

I know a lot of folks are out of work right now, so I spent some time to refresh my website to help keep track of what jobs you’ve applied for: Job.Hunt.Works.

Something a little different this morning.

Another good article on community investment.

This article makes a compelling case for communities investing in themselves to provide services people need.

There are a lot of articles right now telling folks to call their elected representatives or show up to protests or to do one-day boycotts, as ways of showing resistance to the current administration and the shocking things being done to the U.S. governme…

Check out these amazing pixel fonts from somepx!

In 1996, Netscape - who would later become Mozilla - launched a new suite of tools called Netscape Communicator.

Back in August, GSA announced that any U.S. government agency - federal, state, local, or tribal - can now use Login.gov!

Last week, voters in the U.S. overwhelmingly chose to re-elect 45.

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged or worked on web-projects.

XOXO has started posting some amazing talks from this year’s festival.

I love this proposal for standardizing links that appear at the top level of a domain.

Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon discuss the need to decentralize the internet monoculture we’ve beccome locked into.

I’ve just released SIX NEW SHIRT DESIGNS for my series three run, celebrating a variety of hot topics including Login.gov, the DATA Act of 2014, Artificial Intelligence, and Agile software development.

Molly White talks about how we can reclain the web, and rebuild what we’ve lost.

This is a must-read piece from Ed Zitron describing how the major internet corporations have become actively hostile to users.

Baldur Bjarnason lays out how the current AI-obsession is backed by chicanery usually employed by psychics.

Carter Baxter talks about how as a culture we’ve traded ethical values for shareholder value.

Cory Dransfeldt provides this excellent list of AI scraping bots to put in your disallow list for robots.txt.