Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Moustache
Mr. Money Moustache is a kind of hipster Suze Orman. He’s also a censorious, unforgiving scold.
Manage text snippets
Using TextExpander and nvALT to keep text snippets current without copy-paste hell.
Shared Services and Exit Strategies
A brief review of exit strategies and shared services. With Wallace Shawn.
Shame, Irony, and the Littoral Combat Ship.
A Navy team of computer hacking experts found some deficiencies when assigned to try to penetrate the network of the USS Freedom, …
“Patches Welcome”: Quicksilver edition
If you want something done, don’t tell me it’s important to you. Show me. I will spend hours and hours answering your programming questions on the mailing list, or looking over your code, but I’m not going to spend 20 minutes on a feature or plugin if I don’t need it.
Air Force Software Licensing Bible
If I ever had any questions about how the government can use or demand software with open source licenses, the answer is …
Cloud, Portability, and FUD
Chris Uttenweiler over at DLT doesn’t care for all this talk of cloud lock-in. He thinks it’s an inflated problem, blown out of proportion by “third-tier” providers and “self-titled” consultants. He’s wrong.
Why Secure Boot makes people freak out.
Last week, Linus Torvalds wailed on a Red Hat developer over something called Secure Boot. He used bad words, and I’d describe …
DOL is with the program.
“Before enactment of this requirement for data exchange standardization, the Department had been a proponent of and strong advocate for the use of open source technologies and data exchange standards in the development of IT systems…”
Risacher unleashed!
Dan Risacher from the DOD CIO’s office is now blogging. Finally.
Cult of the Product and Affirmative Action
A study of Dutch procurement bias against open source yields some valuable lessons about why technology procurements are so truly terrible.
Predictions for 2013
I really don’t like making predictions, and I really really don’t like skeumorphic interfaces. That means you’ll really enjoy this article in Modern Governing magazine.
Open Source in Government FAQ
The Department of Defense has a much longer and more comprehensive FAQ on this same subject. Can the government use open source? …
How do Amber Alerts work?
So I went down a rathole after writing that screed against AMBER alerts because I wanted to find out who was responsible …
Wildly broken Amber Alert: Fixed.
This afternoon, I received an Amber Alert on my phone. The DOJ, National Center for Exploited Children, Congress, the FCC, and my mobile carrier have spent years and no doubt millions of dollars of coordinating this alert, which is mind-bogglingly awful.
A “New to Open Source” Reading List
A non-technical colleague of mine wanted to learn more about the IT industry and open source. He asked for some reading suggestions, and here it is. It’s heavy on open source, as you might expect.
I truly loathe the Tumblr Android experience.
Why would you strip all markup and links from a post when someone edits it? Why would you disable a super-useful feature …