The Margin Is Too Narrow
FOSSY (Free and Open Source Software Yearly) just wrapped its fourth year — this time at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. A few hundred developers, community managers, foundation staff, and advocates, people who care deeply about how free and open source software gets made and sustained. I attended primarily for the Governance Continue reading FOSSY 2026 — Notes from Vancouver
This article was just fascinating to me. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-kennedy-trump-anxious-unexpressed-thought_n_6a6f91e2e4b03026f4f00de1 He grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought, When my son was little he struggled with keeping his inner dialogue inner. If he thought something, he had to say it. If he didn t say it out loud he would become very agitated. If we were at Continue…
I also recorded a video version of this post if you d prefer to watch rather than read: https://youtu.be/VPIf6dUKwKA Last week I was at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City for UN Open Source Week — a gathering that, even just by its name, tells you something about how far open source has come. Continue reading UN Open Source Week 2026
When figuring out my read order for Bradbury Summer, I discovered a book that not only have I not read, I ve never even heard of. Dark Carnival was Bradbury s first book, in 1947. It s a collection of short stories, some of which I ve read in other collections (Homecoming, and Uncle Einar, are in October Country) Continue reading Dark Carnival
The preface to The Martian Chronicles says I should also read Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson. Books that recommend other books is perhaps my largest source of recommendations over the years.
I just finished The Illustrated Man, which I haven t read in decades. I was worried it wouldn t stand up, but it was every bit as amazing as I remembered, but with the extra depth of reading it as an adult. Particularly wonderful was The Rocket in which a broke junk dealer arranges for his kids Continue reading The Illustrated Man
I started reading Ray Bradbury today. It s like revisiting an old friend. His first story collection, which I don t have, is The dark carnival. Seems that s not available on kindle. So I ordered that and started on The Illustrated Man, which I have read so many times I can quote parts of it. But there s Continue reading Bradbury summer
I wrote a new book. In 2006, I published The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite with Apress. That book is now nearly 20 years old, and the world of Apache HTTP Server configuration has changed enormously since then — new flags, expression engines, security considerations, and two decades of community questions revealing what actually confuses Continue reading mod_rewrite And Friends
Whenever I hear Winds of Change, by the Scorpions, I get a little misty-eyed. Not because it s great music although it s definitely catchy and I do like it but because, for a brief moment in 1989 and 1990, we actually believed that the world was getting smaller, and that there might be a Continue reading Winds of Change
20 minutes. From Golden Apples Of The Sun . Also appears in R is for Rocket .