The Long Road to Long-Term Goals
If there is one thing you can learn from creative writing school, it is that you have to give your
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Author: Paul
I too am going to Akademy
In about a month I’ll be in the beautiful city of Vienna, giving a talk on the weird stuff I
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First 5 Things to Do After Booting Your KDE Slimbook II
You unboxed your KDE Slimbook II, posted the pics to Instagram, and logged into the desktop. What you are seeing
Read morePublic Money! Public Code? Campaign Launched
Your taxes are being used to pay for closed source software and this is a terrible idea. Closed source software
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The new and subtle Microsoft
Deep, deep, very deep inside me, I just hope all of this will turn out not to be true. Hopefully
Read moreDo not get excited about Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation
Let’s not get too excited about this. Firstly, Microsoft does not <3 Linux to any degree. Microsoft wants to contain
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Snap! — Beyond teaching coding to would-be programmers
Following on from our prior article and one more step in my lifelong (?) quest to rectify all the sillines
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Dump Scratch — Use Blockly or Snap! instead
The people who make Scratch have migrated it to Flash. This is the most bonkers, hare-brained, backward idea they could
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Free Software Artists and their Tools — Part III: Tom Carlos & Inkscape
In the final installment of this series we shift our focus away from FLOSS applications for creating bitmap graphics (in
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Free Software Artists and their Tools — Part II: Evelyne Schulz & GIMP
When a Free Software evangelist is asked whether there is a free graphics program that can rival with the proprietary
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