It’s Penguicon 2015 at the Westin in Southfield, Michigan, and time for the 2015 Friends of Armed & Dangerous party. 9PM tonight, room 314. Nuclear ghost-pepper brownies will be featured.
Month: April 2015
A belated response to “A Generation Lost in the Bazaar “
Back in 2012, Poul-Henning-Kamp wrote a disgruntled article in ACM Queue, A Generation Lost in the Bazaar. javporn It did not occur to me to respond in public at the time, but someone else’s comment on a G+ thread about the article revived the thread. Rereading my reaction, I think it is still worth sharing… Continue reading A belated response to “A Generation Lost in the Bazaar “
Penguicon 2015!
I’ve been sent my panel schedule for Penguicon 2015. Building the “Great Beast of Malvern” – Saturday 5:00 pm One of us needed a new computer. One of us kicked off the campaign to fund it. One of us assembled the massive system. One of us installed the software. We were never all in the… Continue reading Penguicon 2015!
shipper 1.7 is released
I’ve released shipper 1.7. The main new feature in this release id that it now knows how to play nice with repository collections managed by gitolite and browseable through gitweb, like this one.
I have been nominated for a John W. Campbell Award
Last Sunday I was informed by email that I have been nominated for the 2015 John W. Campbell award for best new science-fiction writer. I was also asked not to reveal this in public until 4 April. This is a shame.. I had a really elaborate April Fool’s joke planned where I was going to… Continue reading I have been nominated for a John W. Campbell Award
My Gitorious projects have moved.
Gitorious – which I preferred to GitHub for being totally open-source – is shutting down sometime in May. I had no fewer than 26 projects on there, including reposurgeon, cvs-fast-import, doclifter, and INTERCAL. Now they’ve moved. This won’t affect most of my users, as the web pages and distribution tarballs are still in their accustomed… Continue reading My Gitorious projects have moved.