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Short Fiction — 'Neath a Sunless Sky
Why didn't we see you out during the eclipse...? – 1000-ish words
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Free Culture Book Club — Noir & Blanc, part 1
Discussing a French novel – 1200-ish words
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Toots 🦣 from 04/08 to 04/12
Toots for the Week of April 08th, 2024 – 1500-ish words
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Real Life in Star Trek, The Host
The outside world in Star Trek – 2900-ish words
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Developer Diary, International Romani Day
Progress on assorted projects – 500-ish words
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Topical Grab Bag
I noodle around some recent news without much of a plan – 3200-ish words
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Free Culture Book Club — In Unexpected Places
Discussing an animated short – 600-ish words
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Toots 🦣 from 04/01 to 04/05
Toots for the Week of April 01st, 2024 – 1300-ish words
Recommended Posts
It can be difficult to get a sense of what a blog is all about, so here's a small sample of staring points. You might also want to scan through the tags for topics of interest.
- Why Federate? We need to talk more about platform ownership
- Things That Worked (and Didn't Work) in 2022 Some habits help, some barely last
- GitHub Copilot and Other Programming Doom Many things may destroy my career, but probably not AI
- Superheroes and Race A Black version of Superman makes sense
- An Unexpected Case for Reparations Oddly, bigots explain reparations extremely well
- Copyright Searches An amateur guide to checking copyright status
- Victor Séjour's Le Mulâtre A translation of the earliest known African-American fiction
- The Barnes & Noble "Diverse Covers" Thing Highlights of three centuries of American literature in the public domain written by black people
- Recutils — Small Technology Notes Investigating a plain-text database system
- The Worst Programming Language? Designing the worst-possible programming language
- Souring on Quora I stopped posting to Quora in 2019; here's why
- Free Social Networking Showdown A long-term project facing off the Free Software social networks
- Real Life in Star Trek, Introduction A long-term project to dissect the culture Star Trek represents
- 🎄 Unraveling Christmas 🎄 Dissecting a great holiday
- Social and Anti-Social Media The problems with social media
- Metal Umlauts, Searching, and Other Unicode Fun Messing around with Unicode
- Seeking Refuge A novel I wrote and the process behind it