Bob Martens

Tag: Open Source

  • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

    Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal I just finished this book while walking on the treadmill this morning and I am torn. There are definitely parts that I find insightful, especially as an overall look at the struggles open source communities, founders, contributors, maintainer, etc. run into…

  • Between Two Worlds

    Between Two Worlds

    I have been spending too much time thinking about digital platforms again. It breaks down into two choices at the moment: Continue working in Apple’s ecosystem for much of my personal and professional life Work to move as much as possible to open source and free software alternatives which may include self-hosting a number of…

  • Small Isn’t Bad

    Being smaller is not always a bad thing, or at least it doesn’t need to be. Too often I believe that we think that the massive size of something (service, company, etc.) is somehow intrinsically good instead of a tradeoff or a net negative. This has come to the forefront recently as Twitter continues to…

  • Plasma, Ceph, Git Update in Tumbleweed

    Plasma, Ceph, Git Update in Tumbleweed by Douglas DeMaio Tumbleweed continues to just keep rolling with the updates and Leap 42.3 is being prepped for release as well. openSUSE, as a community, continues to really surprise me with what they are doing and Leap 15 (they are going to match the SUSE Linux Enterprise scheme…