Thoughts on the "Pause Giant AI Experiments" open letter

Hot takes on the "Pause Giant AI Experiments" open letter from the Future for Life Institute abound—but how many of us read the letter?

When Your Happy Dreams Are About Dying

Are you burning out? Is someone you care about on the edge? Do you want to be more resilient to overwork, heart-breaking change, and creeping existential dread? Please watch this mix of practical advice, real-life stories, and hard-won wisdom collected from the FLOSS, startup, and non-profit worlds.

I̶̶ ̶R̶o̶c̶k̶!̶ ̶Doc Rocks! :)

Notes on Doc Searl's ca. 2004 ruminations on how the software industry might develop.

Go Open 2008 Keynote

"FLOSS: What & Why?" is a keynote that I wrote for the Go Open 2008 conference in Norway.

PHP Vikinger Invitations Emailed

I just sent out the invitations for the PHP Vikinger event. My method for choosing who to invite was pretty simple - I chose people listed in the the PHP and PEAR credits who I had written personal email to in the last few years. Nepotistic? “Nay”, say I, “Nepotastic!

Good Old Times

Andrei’s Good Old Times post got me curious enough to look up my first post that MARC archived for the PHP general list. The earliest post I spotted was this, but I am pretty sure I was asking stupid questions at least a few weeks before then.

PHP Vikinger site online

After far too long, a quick-and-dirty site for the PHP Vikinger event is online. What are you waiting for? Go visit http://phpvikinger.org (and, yes, it will redirect to a Backpack URL - that is intentional :)

GPLv3 Process Definition

The FSF just announced guidelines for reviewing version 3 of the GPL. To participate in the process, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org/. To learn more, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org/process-definition.

... and the "Best Quote of the Week" award goes to:

Andrei Zmievski, for the following inspired snippet: "Oh, if you are using a mail reader that screws up message threading, I will hunt you down and stuff you full of Perl internals until you look like a camel." 2024-09-22 Postscript—My standards for quote of the week seem

Firefox 1.5 Released

Firefox 1.5 has been released! If you've been using Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3, congratulations: you already have Firefox 1.5. Power users upgrading from Firefox 1.0.7 will appreciate draggable tabs, a much faster Back button, and the replacement of many error dialogs with

Free/Open CMS and Blogging Tools Summit

Avatar of awesomeness (and fellow Vancouverite) Boris Mann just announced the Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit. The summit provides a time and place for developers of the various Free Software CMS (and blog tools) to meet and share as peers. The event is scheduled from February 7 -

Creating iCal events from messages in Mail.app

I just wrote a small bit of AppleScript that creates one iCal event for every selected email in Mail.app. Installation * Download the file at https://github.com/zakgreant/misc/blob/704167b2138275f8cc523241a3fbb713a435d8f3/mail2ical.scpt * Open it in Script Editor * Skim the comments for an overview of how the script works