a guide to liberating your digital life by open source developer Simon Bowie
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
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
