Beautiful Fonts on RHEL 7

Good lord how I hate the way fonts are handled on Linux. These instructions make things bearable.

Using Others’ Bias

Tom Lee recently posted an apologia on Malcolm Gladwell's alleged plagiarism, and I disagree completely.

Reader Questions: Trouser Maintenance

Some advice on trousers.

It’s not broken.

Policing in America is not broken. The judicial system is not broken. American society is not broken. All are functioning perfectly, doing exactly what they have done since before some of this nation's most prosperous slave-murdering robber-barons came together to consecrate into statehood the mechanisms of their barbarism. Democracy functions. Politicians, deriving their legitimacy from … Continue reading It’s not broken. →

Getting Things Done with Trello and Remember the Milk

I figure out how to use the best of Trello and the best of RTM for a formidable GTD workflow.

Annus Mirabilis

GCN calls 2014 the worst year for government open source, and I set fire to London.

CloudFlare Universal SSL broke my podcasts.

So you've starting using CloudFlare to provide https to your website. Good for you, you've done the right thing. But now Android can't download your podcasts.

An Agency that Learns

What "open source first" really means for a government agency.

US Digital Service is Born

Yesterday, the White House announced the formation of the US Digital Service, and I have a bunch of questions.

Baldwin v Buckley

It doesn't matter who wins this debate, the competition is the least interesting thing about it.