I have two goals for this site. The second is to write a book about FOSS. I've written several related books before. See my website for more details about them.
- Introduction
- Dreaming in Code
- My FOSS Journey
- In Praise of Mastodon After an Insurrection, or, What if Donald Trump Had Joined Mastodon?
- 20 Years of Wikipedia
- A Survey for Mastodon Developers, Admins, and Users
- RM Mess
- September update
- Goal 2, Initiate
- FOSS Finds
- FOSS Finds, Environment and Labor Edition
- FOSS Finds
- Coding Freedom, by Biella Coleman
- FOSS Finds
- New Book, Old Book
- FOSS Interview Workflow
- FOSS Finds, StoryCorps Edition
- (I'm) Mashing That Subscribe Button
- FOSS Finds, On Demand Edition
- Movin' North
- FOSS Finds, Scuttlebutt Edition
- Expanding The Conversation (notes on the Pew Alternative Social Media Report)
- Twitter Isn't That Important
- Two New Publications
- A Very Playvicious Christmas
- FOSS Academic Year in Review 2022
- Reading the Minutes of the Social Web Working Group, part 1
- Bumps, Slumps and the Killer Hype Cycle
- Reading the Minutes of the Social Web Working Group, part 2
- ASM Update, June 16 2023
- ASM Update, June 25 2023
- Seeking Grad Students and Postdocs
- ASM update, August 12 2023
- Move Slowly and Build Bridges to be published by Oxford University Press
- ASM update, Bibliography Edition
- ActivityPub, the Non-Standard Standard
- Alternative Social Media Preconference at AoIR
- Ethics and Codes of Conduct on Mastodon
- Move Slowly and Build Bridges -- Preview
- Researching the Fediverse: Instances and Individuals
- On Threads's Blocklist
- Hitting a Nerve and Presenting at IETF
- From reverse engineering to building bridges: adventures in alternative social media
- Copyediting: The Bane of the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream
- Move Slowly and Build Bridges Cover Reveal
- Sharing my book, one random bit at a time
- The FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream 2025 Review
- My Workflow
- FALD Updates
- A defense of the humble, importable blocklist
- Decentralization or Noncentralization, Bluesky or the Fediverse?
- York Circle Lecture: Fleeing Facebook and Exiting X