a guide to liberating your digital life by open source developer Simon Bowie
Over the holidays, I listened to a fair amount of Soft Play [1] and this suffusion in punk rock made me think about something I’ve intended to write about before: how my approach to open source software is shaped by DIY culture and this punk DIY ethos differentiates my
From July to November this year, I walked (non-continuously!) along the John Muir Way from the west coast of Scotland to the east coast, a 215 kilometre route that took me a combined total of 45 hours to complete. This week’s post discusses the open source and, shamefully, proprietary
This is the text of a paper I delivered at UKSG November Conference 2024 on 2024-11-20 on the theme of 'Cybersecurity and Censorship'. It has been edited from the original to incorporate the accompanying presentation slides into the text and to insert additional detail and quotes. In 1996
In response to the election of the fascist capitalist Donald Trump in the USA and the rising tide of the far-right in countries across the world like Israel, the Netherlands, and the UK, lots of people will be looking for secure software solutions for communication and storage of information that
Adobe Inc. is the dominant software provider for design and creative software. Like Microsoft, they switched their Creative Cloud suite to a subscription-based model where you don’t even own the software that you’re paying for and where they charge non-US customers up to twice as much for their
