Personal blog for Christie Koehler. "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward."
My love letter to all my fellow twitterers… With love and gratitude for Michael Stipe and REM. That’s great! It starts with a joke tweet trolls and bots, an offer made And Elon Musk is not afraid Eye if a hurricane, listen to the staff churn Musk decrees his own needs, don’t mis-serve your own …
Last week Sherri and I met with my neurologist to review the findings of blood and cerebral-spinal fluid lab analyses. I received a diagnosis of Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. If you ever watched The West Wing, you might recall this was the illness President Jeb Bartlett had and tried to keep secret. Well, I’m not planning …
Recently Coraline Ehmke announced a new software license, the Hippocratic License, a modified MIT License, amended “to limit the impact of the unethical use of open source software.” Coraline states that she intends to submit the license to the Open Source Initiative even though she acknowledges it does not meet their criteria for an open …
The purpose of this post is to publicly document what I understand regarding the problematic behavior of prominent tech feminist activist and diversity consultant Valerie Aurora. It is not meant to be an unimpeachable accounting but more of a connecting of the dots and a conversation starter. The content here, in its most recent iteration, …
The following is the text of the keynote I gave at this year’s grand final for Open Source Bridge on 29 June, 2018. See also Audrey’s post Saying goodbye to Open Source Bridge. Opening 10 years ago planning for the first Open Source Bridge began. 10 years later we are kicking off our 10th and final event, …
tldr: Patreon is changing their fee structure, in part, because the batching of pledge payments from one patron to multiple creators and the use of Patreon balance to pay pledges without processing an external payment requires “holding funds in a balance that can then be redistributed” and makes them look like a money transmitter money …
My good friend and colleague Audrey Eschright runs indie publishing company Recompiler Media, which produces the feminist tech zine Recompiler and a companion podcast of the same name that I co-host. It also publishes important books such as the Responsible Communication Style Guide, edited by Thursday Bram. Right now, Audrey is running a Kickstarter campaign …
(If you like this post, you might also like Using Zapier to import GitHub issues into OmniFocus.) I use OmniFocus for personal task-tracking and Zapier to automate work when possible. One way I use these two tools in combination is to automatically create tasks when a new event is created on my work calendars. The two …
I use OmniFocus for personal task-tracking and Zapier to automate work when possible. I also coordinate open source work on GitHub. Recently I was wondering if there was a way to make OmniFocus automatically import any GitHub issue assigned to me. It turns out there is! What you need: Zapier account OmniFocus Pro (desktop) OmniSync …
(Post adapted from this twitter thread.) This week, GitHub released results from a survey it did regarding the “attitudes, experiences, and backgrounds of those who use, build, and maintain open source software.” Of 5,500 responses from 3,800 open source repositories, only 3% of responses were from women. Also this week, GitHub announced an all-male speaker …