The social sciences group blog Crooked Timber has published my guest post, "Codes of conduct and the trade-offs of copyleft". A lot of open stuff -- such as the Wikimedia/Wikipedia and Linux projects -- are …

Today I am heading off to PyCon North America 2015 and am looking forward to sprinting on Mailman! You can now read my LWN piece on what'll be new in the 3.0 release as it's …

More book reviews from the past year or so! I believe this catches me up! Government Brahmana by Aravind Malagatti. I am a Brahmin, which is to say, I have high-caste privilege. I have a …

My acquaintance Danielle Sucher asked: Friends! What's your gender? & cis folks especially, how did you figure it out? I'm a cisgender woman, or at least I think so. I can't properly prove it to …

In addition to Randomized Dystopia, I've made some additional things recently that I don't think I linked to here. Last year, with Alex Bayley, I co-wrote an article for opensource.com about Growstuff and how open …

To what extent do you think of your open stuff contributions as gifts? Does this match up with your sense of your communities on the caring-to-combative spectrum? To you, what are the manners surrounding giving …

More book reviews from the past year or so! I am still catching up and am not done catching up. Up Against It by MJ Locke. You can read the first 5 chapters free online. …

Now that I'm not all arrrrgh I just want to launch this thing I'll talk a little more about why I made Randomized Dystopia: to help us think about how dystopian fiction (and real repression) …

Are you tired of the same old dystopias? Why not write about tyrannies that deny different rights? Try Randomized Dystopia! I see a lot of repetitive dystopian fiction about denying people (often teenagers) the right …

I have the best spouse. I spent basically the entire afternoon and evening waylaid by an inexplicable short-term illness (I would blame food poisoning except I can't work out the causality). Leonard's super solicitousness extended …