Current Affairs

At the adaptTo() conference, Berlin, September 2019
Banning AI? How about synthesizers and drum machines?
Surviving large mailing lists in 2024
VanillaJS & the Web Platform, a match made in heaven?

VOTD - Video Of The Day

The ASF's Board of Directors - interview with Bertrand Delacretaz

Rich Bowen interviewed me on how the world, and the ASF, have changed in the 14 years I spent in its Board of Directors, and why you might want to serve on it.

There's more videos of my talks and interviews on the pressbook page.

Favorite posts

Here's a list of my 48 favorite posts. Milestones, writings that I'm proud of, etc., going all the way back to the early 2000s, when I started my first tech blog.

Banning AI? How about synthesizers and drum machines?
Surviving large mailing lists in 2024
From one Devoxx to the next: async decisions & distributed teams
VanillaJS & the Web Platform, a match made in heaven?
Any custom HTML elements on this page?
Teaching programming: Sonic Pi for the win!
WW;SW : Well Written, Subtly Wrong !
SSL/TLS certificates with Let's Encrypt
How to record decent conference videos - without breaking the bank!
Rules For Revolutionaries (2000 edition)
Would you hire an open source developer?
Great software is like a great music teacher
Open source is done. Welcome to Open Development!
Status meetings are a waste of time and money
Large Mailing Lists Survival Guide
Apache: lean and mean, durable, fun!
Shared neurons and the Shadok's First Law of Failure
Merry Christmas avec la Soupe a la Bière a Roger!
On speaking in URLs
Can I haz web?
What Makes Apache Tick?
R.I.P. Randy Pausch
It just doesn't matter
richandstupid.com
Mailing lists netiquette