# roost — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover roost. Page: Feed: --- ## [Does He Measure Up](https://banditsroost.substack.com/p/does-he-measure-up) _2026-07-08 · A Curiosity of Crime · Bandit's Roost_ An idea floated around Europe in the 1800s. ## [Evolution and the Criminal](https://banditsroost.substack.com/p/evolution-and-the-criminal) _2026-04-07 · A Curiosity of Crime · Bandit's Roost_ The Nineteenth-Century Obsession with Atavism ## [North America's First Forensic Scientists](https://banditsroost.substack.com/p/north-americas-first-forensic-scientists) _2026-03-10 · A Curiosity of Crime · Bandit's Roost_ “Not Sherlock Holmes. ## [How I Designed My Cantina Birthday Party](/blog/star-wars-cantina-birthday-party/) _2026-02-14 · Cassidy James_ Ever since my partner and I bought a house several years ago, I’ve wanted to throw a themed Star Wars party here. We’ve talked about doing a summer movie showing thing, we’ve talked about doing a Star Wars TV show marathon, and we’ve done a few birthday parties—but never the full-on themed party that I was dreaming up. Until this year! For some reason, a combination of rearranging some of our… ## [North America’s First Forensic Laboratories](https://banditsroost.substack.com/p/north-americas-first-forensic-laboratories) _2026-02-11 · A Curiosity of Crime · Bandit's Roost_ The first public forensic laboratory in the world was founded in Lyon, France, in 1910 by Edmund Locard (a giant in the history of forensics) in the attic of the Lyon police station. ## [ROOST at FOSDEM 2026](/blog/roost-osprey-fosdem-2026/) _2026-02-06 · Cassidy James_ A few months ago I joined ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools) to build our open source community that would be helping to create, distribute, and maintain common tools and building blocks for online trust and safety. One of the first events I wanted to make sure we attended in order to build that community was of course FOSDEM , the massive annual gathering of open source folks in Brussels,… ## [Looking back on GNOME in 2025—and looking forward to 2026](/blog/looking-back-gnome-2025-looking-forward-2026/) _2025-12-02 · Cassidy James_ This past year has been an exceptional one for GNOME. The project released two excellent releases on schedule with GNOME 48 in March and GNOME 49 in September. Contributors have been relentless in delivering a set of new and improved default apps, constant performance improvements across the board benefitting everyone (but especially lower-specced hardware), a better experience on high end… ## [Galvanism and the Criminal Body](https://banditsroost.substack.com/p/galvanism-and-the-criminal-body) _2025-10-28 · A Curiosity of Crime · Bandit's Roost_ “I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet... ## [I’ve Joined ROOST](/blog/ive-joined-roost-oss-community-open-online-safety/) _2025-10-27 · Cassidy James_ A couple of months ago I shared that I was looking for what was next for me, and I’m thrilled to report that I’ve found it: I’m joining ROOST as OSS Community Manager! What is ROOST? I’ll let our website do most of the talking, but I can add some context based on my conversations with the rest of the incredible ROOSTers over the past few weeks. In a nutshell, ROOST is a relatively new nonprofit… ## [Humans, Animals, and the Origins of Forensic Hair Examination](https://banditsroost.substack.com/p/humans-animals-and-the-origins-of) _2025-09-17 · A Curiosity of Crime · Bandit's Roost_ “If a hair submitted for examination be not human, from what animal has it been derived?” Charles Meymott Tidy, Legal Medicine, 1892 ## [AI publishing with human taste (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/w3U6nWUMbYq3) _2025-09-17 · **Sponsored**_ Convert AI research into blogs, podcasts, and newsletters with optional human review. ## [Here’s to What’s Next](/blog/heres-to-whats-next/) _2025-08-20 · Cassidy James_ For the past three and a half years, I’ve done the most rewarding work of my life with Endless Access (formerly Endless OS Foundation). I’ve helped ship Endless OS on computers to tens of thousands of people in need around the globe—people who might not otherwise have access to a real computer and especially reliable access to all of the offline knowledge and tools that come out of the box. I’ve… ## [Elect the next GNOME Foundation Board of Directors for 2025!](/blog/elect-gnome-foundation-board-directors-2025/) _2025-05-19 · Cassidy James_ It’s everyone’s favorite time of year, election season! …Okay, maybe not the most exciting thing—but an extremely important one nonetheless. For anyone who doesn’t know, GNOME is comprised of many parts: individual contributors and maintainers, adhoc teams of volunteers, a bunch of open source software in the form of apps and libraries, a whole bunch of infrastructure, and—importantly—a nonprofit… ## [GNOME Should Kick the Foot to the Curb… Mostly](/blog/gnome-foot-logo-rebrand/) _2025-02-13 · Cassidy James_ Update: Thanks for all of the feedback and discussion on Mastodon and Matrix! I’ve revised this post a bit with some more nuance and context based on feedback. I apologize if my writing style was divisive; I wrote the first draft of this post pretty hastily based on some frustrating conversations and wanted to get all my thoughts out into one place rather than retreading the same thoughts in… ## [Publish Your Godot Engine Game to Flathub](/blog/publish-godot-engine-game-flathub-flatpak/) _2024-12-11 · Cassidy James_ If you follow me on the fediverse ( @cassidy@blaede.family ), you may have seen me recently gushing about ROTA , a video game I recently discovered. Besides the absolutely charming design and ridiculously satisfying gameplay, the game itself is open source , meaning the developer has published the game’s underlying code out to the world for anyone to see, learn from, and adapt. As someone…