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Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett go deep into what’s happening in the fediverse with Evan Prodromou, the co-creator of ActivityPub, the open protocol behind Mastodon and other truly social networks on the Internet. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to […]
For the most part, I think that software engineers, developers, programmers, coders — call ’em whatever you like — all tend to share an important trait — curiosity. Yes, even the jaded cynics with a decades-long career behind them. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but when it comes to those of us who write […]
Doc Searls and Dan Lynch explore long-standing ethical and technical imperatives of the free software and open source movements, and the wild new challenges they face in an age of AI that is still just beginning. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email […]
Emotional Architecture in Software Design 14 min read · Nov 10, 2023 Photo by Bret Kavanaugh on Unsplash Imagine sitting down at your desk to untangle a particularly complex piece of software code. Your eyes scan lines packed with logical operations and function calls. Somewhere in this intricate weave, a bug lurks, derailing the application’s […]
Philip Griffiths of OpenZiti explains to Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Jonathan Bennett how OpenZiti is on its way to becoming the Linux of secure networking. An overview of OpenZiti and how it implements zero trust principles by putting private networks inside applications. How OpenZiti functions similarly to a VPN. OpenZiti’s security and how it […]
Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Luis Villa of Tidelift about how it helps code maintainers get paid, plus what’s happening in AI, ML, regulation and more. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Luis Villa Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? […]
Frank Karlitschek joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to talk about Nextcloud. Nextcloud is a fast-growing open source collaboration platform that gives customers a huge array of capabilities, all independent of giant gatekeepers. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to […]
Our guest this week was Jon “maddog” Hall, the Linux Legend, until his connection from Brazil dropped. At any rate, Dan Lynch and Doc Searls went deep into the differences between GPL licenses v2 and v3 on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: Jon “maddog” Hall Download or subscribe […]
Aral Balkan of the Small Technology Foundation talks with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch about the small web, the tame little server called Kitten, and much more about the wide open world we’ve been losing and how to get it back. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should […]
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android In this episode I Kathleen Dollard, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. Kathleen has been writing software in .NET and other Microsoft technologies for over 20 years. We talked about how systems have evolved and how the process of developing software has improved. Kathleen also talked about different programming […]