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Developer Diary, Nayrouz
Progress on assorted projects – 800-ish words
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Free Culture Book Club — Poles, part 4
Discussing a novel written in Tamil – 1300-ish words
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Toots 🐘 from 09/04 to 09/08
Toots for the Week of September 04th, 2023 – 1300-ish words
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Real Life in Star Trek, Captain's Holiday
The outside world in Star Trek – 2500-ish words
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Developer Diary, Labor Day
Progress on assorted projects – 500-ish words
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Free Culture Book Club — Poles, part 3
Discussing a novel written in Tamil – 1200-ish words
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Toots 🐘 from 08/28 to 09/01
Toots for the Week of August 28th, 2023 – 1100-ish words
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Real Life in Star Trek, Allegiance
The outside world in Star Trek – 1900-ish words
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- 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
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