[ad_1] Unless your spirit animal is Emily Dickinson, when you make a thing, you want to share it with the world. Sharing your work means that you need a website. Of course, you could simply partake in digital sharecropping and use any of the various social media sites to get your work in front of…

[ad_1] Alvand Salehi, senior technology advisor in the Office of the Federal CIO at the White House, delivered a keynote address at OSCON in early May to talk about the U.S. federal government’s role in open source. Since Salehi joined the CIO team in 2015, the government has made great strides toward open sourcing its code. The…

[ad_1] When it comes to “most valuable tools for untying mental knots and figuring things out,” two items appear at the top of my list. The first is this clip from Benny Hill about what happens when we make assumptions. I saw it on (the opposite of a flat-screen) TV as a child years ago,…