You died ten years ago today. I wish I could show you what your kids and their spouses have been up to in the last ten years. I like to believe you'd be pretty proud. …
The new IDNYC card is free, government-issued photo ID for New York City residents. "Immigration status does not matter." That is to say, people who are came to NYC from abroad, and currently don't have …
At his job, Leonard is having trouble getting SQLAlchemy to do what he wants with regard to automated testing. Today he's going to construct a tiny app and test to validate his understanding of the …
As Leonard has blogged, he and I just returned from a weeklong anniversary trip to Paris, courtesy of my mom. I'm still a little jetlagged and I've said "Excusez-moi" when brushing past a stranger here …
I just posted this on Twitter: I'm feeling bleh about Twitter recently. http://www.listen-tome.com/wasted-hours/ It's a closed-source platform. Recently time-to-load feels slower and navigation feels more unwieldy. The speech I want to perform and experience doesn't …
This year I submitted talks to several tech conferences and got a higher acceptance rate than I had been used to. For instance, this year I will speak for the first time at OSCON and …
Last week I took the train to Atlanta to speak at the Great Wide Open conference, which I'd never visited before. I particularly appreciated the chance to share my lessons learned with an audience that …
Yesterday, at my first LibrePlanet conference, I delivered a somewhat impromptu five-minute lightning talk, "What is maintainership? Or, approaches to filling management skill gaps in free software". I spoke without a script, and what follows …
Leonard and I have taken to playing a kind of "Twenty Questions" variant where there is no limit on the number of questions or guesses. We discover stuff about ourselves along the way. Sometimes it …
This week, when searching for my own name online, I came across these three judgments of my works and character: About my January talk "Comparing Codes of Conduct to Copyleft Licenses", which I delivered without …
