a guide to liberating your digital life by open source developer Simon Bowie
This is the text of a paper I delivered at Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025 on 2025-06-04 led by the conference question "What's stopping you?". It has been edited from the original to incorporate some of the accompanying presentation slides into the text and to insert
On 2025-04-07, the Palestinian BDS National Committee officially declared Microsoft a priority target for BDS and called for people who support Palestine to divest from Microsoft. Although their call focuses on Microsoft’s gaming products – Xbox Game Pass, flagship Microsoft games like Candy Crush, Minecraft, and Call of Duty, and
The Besties is a video game podcast where the four hosts discuss a different video game every week. I was struck by something that Justin McElroy said on this week's episode about his recent journey into DIY computing via Raspberry Pis and Linux operating systems as I felt
It’s time to leave 𝕏 if you haven’t done so already. I stopped posting there and locked my account immediately after the US election when it became clear that the owner was a de facto US Government functionary. Now that the owner has de jure political power and is
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
