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Here are a few of my favorite things I’ve written over the years:
The ReadME Project
What hacking AOL taught a generation of programmers
Building the future of the command line
It’s never too early or too late to start thinking about contributor relations
A new crop of server-side tools is making it possible to build web UIs without JavaScript
What we can learn from “_why”, the long lost open source developer
Q&A: Marketing for Maintainers
Wired
Anyone’s a Celebrity Streamer With OBS Studio
WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
Open Source Fonts Are Love Letters to the Design Community
Bitsy: You Too Can Make These Fun Games (No Experience Necessary)
50 Years Later, We Still Don’t Grasp the Mother of All Demos
‘Scraper’ Bots and the Secret Internet Arms Race
Kotlin: the Upstart Coding Language Conquering Silicon Valley
Pro-Government Twitter Bots Try to Hush Mexican Activists
Tech’s Alcohol-Soaked Culture Isn’t a Party for Everybody
I Turned Off JavaScript for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious
Hogwarts for Hackers: Inside the Science and Tech School of Tomorrow
The story of Frank Duff and how he quit programming to become a bike messenger