pages tagged open-source

tychoish.com has always been a very eccentric and eclecticly focused weblog, with posts about knitting and technology sharing an equal stage with posts about tea. Despite this eclecticism, particularly in recently, one of my core interests and subjects for this site is free and open source software.

Having said that, I'm not your typical open source hacker. While I dabble in programing, I'm mostly a user experience guy. I'm interested in how we use technology and how technology affects our lives and thought. Most of my contributions, such as it is, to the open source movement is in the realm of documentation, usage scenario stuff, observation, and of course as an avid user.

In terms of the projects I use and am interested in, I've been working with git a lot recently, and when in need of a wiki engine, I always fall back on ikiwiki. I'm also interested in and am beginning to use a window manager called awesome which is a pretty clear reflection of my interest in user experience.

As for the larger issues surrounding open source, I'm interested in how leadership and democracy in project organization happen and develop, and how individuals deal with the problems that arise from collaboration in the development process particularly surrounding ownership and property rights. As you might imagine, some of these thoughts can stray into the academic, but I think it's all pretty interesting.

And I hope you all do too; I look forward to hearing from you

tycho garen
2 September 2008

Documentation Emergence
Posted 17 January 2012 by tycho garen

Xen and KVM: Failing Differently Together
Posted 20 December 2011 by tycho garen

Is Dropbox the Mobile File System Standard
Posted 18 October 2011 by tycho garen

Issue Tracking and the Health of Open Source Software
Posted 12 September 2011 by tycho garen

Tumble Manager
Posted 16 July 2011

Sygn System
Posted 10 July 2011

Packaging Technology Creates Value
Posted 10 May 2011 by tycho garen

Talk Proposals
Posted 6 April 2011 by tycho garen

The Inevitability of Open Source
Posted 31 March 2011 by tycho garen

Rule By Community
Posted 1 February 2011 by Sam Kleinman

Upgrade SBCL and SLIME
Posted 5 January 2011 by tycho garen

Against Open Stacks
Posted 13 December 2010 by tycho garen

The Meaning of Work
Posted 22 June 2010 by tycho garen

Jekyll and Automation
Posted 8 June 2010 by Sam Kleinman

Why Open Source Matters
Posted 20 April 2010 by tycho garen

Enterprise Linux Community
Posted 31 March 2010 by tycho garen

Analyzing the Work of Open Source
Posted 30 March 2010 by Sam Kleinman

If Open Source is Big Business Then Whither the Community?
Posted 9 March 2010 by Sam Kleinman

Window Sizes in Tiling Window Managers
Posted 1 December 2009 by tycho garen

Industry, Community, Open Source
Posted 9 November 2009 by tycho garen

Radicalism in Free Software, Open Source
Posted 4 November 2009 by tycho garen

Package Mangement and Why Your Platform Needs an App Store
Posted 3 November 2009 by tycho garen

The End of Reusable Software
Posted 27 October 2009 by tycho garen

The Tiling Window Manager Story
Posted 22 October 2009 by tycho garen

microsoft reconsidered
Posted 21 September 2009 by tycho garen

open source competition
Posted 14 September 2009 by tycho garen

on package management
Posted 13 July 2009 by tycho garen

dweebishness of linux users
Posted 10 June 2009 by tycho garen

canonical freedom and ubuntu one
Posted 28 May 2009 by tycho garen

adventures in systems administration
Posted 26 May 2009 by tycho garen

free project xanadu
Posted 19 May 2009 by tycho garen

database market
Posted 13 May 2009 by tycho garen

new awesome
Posted 11 May 2009 by tycho garen

why tiling window managers matter
Posted 8 May 2009 by tycho garen

Cooperatives, Competition, Openness
Posted 6 May 2009 by tycho garen

jaunty upgrade
Posted 4 May 2009 by tycho garen

An Open Letter to the Jekyll Community
Posted 21 April 2009 by tycho garen

Treating Users Like Idiots
Posted 17 April 2009 by tycho garen

Open Source Words
Posted 14 April 2009 by tycho garen

A Jekylled Weekend
Posted 6 April 2009 by tycho garen

Things to Learn in Emacs
Posted 1 April 2009 by tycho garen

Links and Old Habits
Posted 30 March 2009 by tycho garen

getting emacs daemon to work right
Posted 27 March 2009 by tycho garen

The Hard (GNU/Linux) Truth
Posted 23 March 2009 by tycho garen

Agile Writing
Posted 6 March 2009 by tycho garen

Wordpress Limitations
Posted 2 March 2009 by tycho garen

Sapir Whorf Hypothesis and Computer Programing
Posted 25 February 2009 by tycho garen

Comitting From the Bottom Up
Posted 23 February 2009 by tycho garen

org-mode snippets
Posted 20 February 2009 by tycho garen

Open Source Userland
Posted 4 February 2009 by tycho garen

Linux Emergence
Posted 15 December 2008 by tycho garen

Open Source Work
Posted 30 September 2008 by tycho garen

Awesome Window Manager
Posted 9 September 2008 by tycho garen

beasties
Posted 18 March 2008 by tycho garen

Open Source Knitting Technology
Posted 25 September 2007 by tycho garen