Hi, I’m Roland Taylor (RolandiXor). Join me as I share my work in open-source and design: from The Roll Out, to fun updates, experiments, and thoughts on what I’m building and learning along the way.
Stick around to the end for more of my recent open-source articles. It could be said that economies run the world, whether we’re looking at the natural world of living ecosystems, natural, non-living
Stick around to the end for more of my recent open-source articles. Open-source doesn’t owe us anything. That probably sounds harsher than I mean it, so let’s be clear from the start: I’m not talking
Stick around to the end for more of my recent open-source articles. There’s something to be said for the power and uniqueness of a real person taking the time out to craft something real, unique, and
A lot of people say open-source software sucks, and that can feel unfair, or even be upsetting to those of us who are open-source enthusiasts, advocates, and contributors. After all, we often know
Stick around to the end for more of my recent open-source articles. For many years, “open-source” has been haunted by a dark shadow in the public space: Open-source meant powerful ideas but rough
Stick around to the end for more of my recent open-source articles. Every so often, news from the security world leaks into the wider tech zeitgeist and later reaches the broader public. Of course,
Stick around to the end for more of my recent open-source articles. This week kicked off with the announcement of some rather unexpected, but frankly inevitable news: Canonical is exploring
Stick around to the end for more of my recent open-source articles. Even if you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of the “drama” surrounding the major open-source office suites as of
Stick around to the end for more of my recent open-source articles. Whenever we talk about open standards, we often speak as though the word “open” settles everything. It doesn’t. A standard isn’t
Stick around to the end for more of my recent open-source articles. “This software has too much of a learning curve.” Every so often, I hear a popular mantra being repeated by fellow creators,