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2026 8

  1. Thank you for your contribution to the model
  2. But where does taste come from?
  3. Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled
  4. What happened to the fight for the Internet?
  5. Reflections, shattered by a thousand faces
  6. The first AI agent worm is months away, if that
  7. A letter from 2016 to 2026
  8. An AI Called Winter: Neurosymbolic Computation or Illusion?

2025 4

  1. The Little Learner and hotel room hacking
  2. Ode to Cleaning Robots (a song)
  3. Crystal Chariot: a poem for the moment
  4. The DIY FOSS cyborg

2024 6

  1. Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization
  2. How decentralized is Bluesky really?
  3. MNT Pocket Reform first impressions
  4. Two songs in Milkytracker
  5. I appeared on PBS NOVA
  6. My Moon and Stars

2023 3

  1. Sucks is a compliment now
  2. Transitional reflections
  3. In Unexpected Places: a music video

2022 4

  1. A Guile Steel smelting pot
  2. The Beginning of A Grueling Diet
  3. Guile Steel: a proposal for a systems lisp
  4. Site converted to Haunt

2021 3

  1. Hello, I'm Christine Lemmer-Webber, and I'm nonbinary trans-femme
  2. Beyond the shouting match: what is a blockchain, really?
  3. The hurt of this moment, hopes for the future

2020 17

  1. Vote for Amy Guy on the W3C TAG (if you can)
  2. Identity is a Katamari, language is a Katamari explosion
  3. Spritely website launches, plus APConf video(s)!
  4. Spritely Goblins v0.7 released!
  5. If you can't tell people anything, can you show them?
  6. Terminal Phase in Linux Magazine (Polish edition)
  7. Announcing FOSS and Crafts
  8. Some updates: CapTP in progress, Datashards, chiptune experiments, etc
  9. Departing Libre Lounge
  10. Spritely's NLNet grant: Interface Discovery for Distributed Systems
  11. What should fit in a FOSS license?
  12. Terminal Phase v1.1 and Spritely Goblins v0.6 releases!
  13. Content Addressed Vocabulary
  14. Vats and Propagators: towards a global brain
  15. State of Spritely for February 2020
  16. Time travel debugging in Spritely Goblins, previewed through Terminal Phase
  17. Terminal Phase 1.0

2019 13

  1. 201X in review
  2. Noncommercial Doesn't Compose (and it never will)
  3. telnet postcard.sfconservancy.org 2333
  4. Terminal Phase: building a space shooter that runs in your terminal
  5. Updates: ActivityPub Conference, and more
  6. ActivityPub Conf 2019 Speakers
  7. Mark S. Miller keynoting at ActivityPub Conf 2019
  8. ActivityPub Conf 2019
  9. Racket is an acceptable Python
  10. How do Spritely's actor and storage layers tie together?
  11. Let's Just Be Weird Together
  12. Libre Lounge
  13. I've been awarded the Samsung Stack Zero Grant

2018 6

  1. Announcing Goblins (the actor model foundation of Spritely)
  2. Spritely: towards secure social spaces as virtual worlds
  3. Privilege isn't a sin, but it's a responsibility and a debt to be repaid
  4. We Miss You, Charlie Brown
  5. On standards divisions and collaboration (or: Why can't the decentralized social web people just get along?)
  6. ActivityPub is a W3C Recommendation

2017 9

  1. DRM will unravel the Web
  2. An Icon I Need Tomorrow
  3. Iced tea and related cold beverages, at home and cheap
  4. Gush: A stack based language eventually for genetic programming
  5. Possible routes for distributed anti-abuse systems
  6. Wireworld in Emacs
  7. Gems from really old lisp mailing lists
  8. Phyllis Fox, documenting Lisp History
  9. CRISPR drive as a Thompson hack?

2016 4

  1. An even more distributed ActivityPub
  2. Will your tooling let me go offline?
  3. Memories of a march against DRM
  4. Goodbye 2015, Hello 2016

2015 25

  1. VCS friendly, patchable, document line wrapping
  2. Parallels Between Code of Conducts and Copyleft (and their objectors)
  3. Hash tables are easy (in Guile)
  4. Activipy v0.1 released!
  5. Hitchhiker's guide to data formats
  6. A conversation with Sussman on AI and asynchronous programming
  7. Minimalist bundled and distributed bugtracker w/ orgmode
  8. Chicago GNU/Linux talk on Guix retrospective
  9. Userops Acid Test v0.1
  10. Wisp: Lisp, minus the parentheses
  11. More careful exceptions in Guile
  12. In which I receive the O'Reilly Open Source Award
  13. Why I Am Pro-GPL
  14. Let's Package jQuery: A Javascript Packaging Dystopian Novella
  15. Why is it hard to move from one machine to another? An analysis. [x-post from Userops]
  16. Interviewed on Ryno the Bearded
  17. Fever Dream: cryptocurrency
  18. LibrePlanet and W3C Social Working Group 2015
  19. Fauxnads
  20. Why XUDD is stuck (or: why Python needs better immutable structures)
  21. Thoughts on LambdaMOO from a newbie
  22. SLIB's topsort for standard Guile
  23. Guix package manager without "make install"
  24. Life Update: January 2015
  25. Comments and byte-compiled Lojban

2014 11

  1. Unofficial candidate list for high priority free software projects
  2. Activist/political orgs: stop using stupid email subjects
  3. Donate to Software Freedom Conservancy
  4. How Hy backported "yield from" to Python 2
  5. Javascript beyond Javascript (with Guile?)
  6. Researchcation, concluded
  7. Fifth wedding anniversary, the RPG
  8. A sweet and savory cabbage recipe
  9. Empathy for PHP + Shared Hosting (Which is Living in the Past, Dude)
  10. Configuration Management for the People
  11. MediaGoblin's campaign for federation and privacy

2013 13

  1. Life update: Late November 2013
  2. Block o' conferencing reflections
  3. emacslisten (an idea)
  4. Free software password manager roundup
  5. Base64 UUIDs in Python
  6. Life Update: June 2013
  7. Could we please end the SQLite ALTER TABLE pain?
  8. Now on Pelican
  9. Flash Fiction Dystopias Volume 1
  10. FOSDEM 2013
  11. My taste in music
  12. On the MediaGoblin fundraising campaign part 2: behind the scenes
  13. On Hackers and Depression

2012 13

  1. I also work for the Internet now.
  2. On the MediaGoblin fundraising campaign part 1: FSF vs Kickstarter
  3. Life Update October 2012
  4. Interviewed on Free as in Freedom
  5. When "women can be heroes" is simply an accepted premise
  6. Why games matter to free software and free culture
  7. Life Update part 2: Leaving CC to focus on MediaGoblin
  8. June 2012 Life Update (part 1)
  9. Making of MediaGoblin "Rise of the RoboGoblins" release artwork
  10. Non-religious discrimination
  11. A Field Guide To Copyleft Perspectives
  12. Talks and conferences in March 2012
  13. Interviewed about MediaGoblin on Frostcast

2011 8

  1. Gnome 3
  2. Don't Repeat Myself
  3. In Memoriam: Matt DeSpears
  4. Switched blog to PyBlosxom
  5. GNU MediaGoblin
  6. Me, elsewhere on the internet
  7. Gonna speak on Blender at PyCon 2011
  8. Urinal model

2010 8

  1. Emacs appointment notifications via XMPP
  2. Moved to teh Deklabbs (DeKalb)
  3. Vegan Strawberry Vanilla Rose Black Tea Shortbread Cookies
  4. Patent Absurdity
  5. 1st year anniversary (and an upcoming move)
  6. Switched blog to Zine
  7. Prosody is a nice XMPP server
  8. Things I've been doing lately

2009 11

  1. N900 and the State of the Free Phone
  2. Invest in what you believe in
  3. Creative Commons Transition
  4. Development As XKCD
  5. Watching the Watchmen
  6. Life Update March 2009: Full Speed Ahead
  7. Wedding website is up
  8. In Which My Twelve Year Old Brother Reviews GNU/Linux and Ubuntu
  9. Miro and ChiGlug groups on Identi.ca
  10. On Identi.ca
  11. Leaving 2008 and Entering 2009: Reflections and Projections

2008 6

  1. Mushiki Love
  2. Book Meme
  3. Working It at the PCF
  4. ChiPy Talk on Miro Tonight
  5. March 7, 2008: Projects in Progress
  6. March 4, 2008: Minor updates

Undated 30

  1. ChiPy Talk: OpenMoko Phone
  2. Miro on Lifehacker
  3. Miro Volunteering
  4. Siggraph 2008
  5. OpenLieroX
  6. UPDATE computer SET status='dead';
  7. Firebug for Firefox3
  8. Firefox download day is NOW
  9. Video Game Sound Generator
  10. Free Speech Is Illegal
  11. "Big Buck Bunny" Released!
  12. The Definition Of "Too Much Time On Your Hands"
  13. Home Directory Organization
  14. Reclaiming Myself, Part One
  15. Doored, and Avoiding Doors
  16. Biking and Lisping
  17. Slew of posts ahead
  18. Another programmer proposal
  19. The return of Lingo
  20. Ubuntu on the Eee PC
  21. More Eee PC impressions
  22. It arrives! The Eee PC is here!
  23. Staying late at work does not mean productivity
  24. That's embarrassing
  25. My PyCon talk explodes, and I buy an Eee PC
  26. Pycon 2008, day one!
  27. Pycon 2008!
  28. Chicago Free Geek and other volunteering thoughts
  29. New site, new blog
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