Free software or open source related posts.
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Here is some helpful info if you are going to FOSDEM 2023 this year. FOSDEM > When? Feb 4-5, 2023 > Where? ULB Campus du Solbosch Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50 1050 Bruxelles Belgium > What is it? FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organized by the community for the community. The goal is to … Read more
I encourage everyone to contribute to open source projects in every company I work. If you are a developer, I am sure you know how to do that already, but what about the rest of the people who can contribute with the same impact? There is one interesting idea I am trying right now: The … Read more
After a long time, I was trying to edit my Fedora wiki space and realized that I could not add my Fediverse ID there. Since this is the only “social media” I use now, I edited the userinfo template and added the missing details, so your profile can show your decentralized DID. What does it look like? … Read more
I still remember the good ol’ times where I almost convince an entire company to allow their > 500 employees to contribute to an opensource or a free software project at least 1 hour a month. The journey was hard. I prepared a strategy and facilitated the discussion, and spend numerous hours taking to smart … Read more
I was reading today the great article about the unknown aspects of REST and I thought that it’s finally time to talk, or in my case write more about the future of the APIs, but first let me invite you to the magical world of Stephen King’s novel The Wind Through the Keyhole and in the precise moment when the Ka-tet are hiding from the Starkblast.
There are tens of thousands of API’s available. More to come. Most of the companies though, have troubles engaging developers to use them. So I have decided to share a few thoughts and ideas on how you can do that, based on my experience. Design your API well Nobody likes powerful, but not developer-friendly APIs. … Read more
