Synopsis from Linucon program book: “The most popular open source license, the GPL, inspires controversy to this day. Eric Raymond recently expressed some ambivalence about…
Steve Jackson’s Chaos Machine is, to quote the convention program book, “a giant communal build-it-yourself project that’s a cross between an erector set, model trains,…
Austin’s own Robot Group — an organization of robotics enthusiasts — had a display of their robots at Linucon. Some robot enthusiasts also brought…
The title suggests this panel should have been stories from tech support front lines. It was a bit more general than that. The panelists and…
The name Larval Mode comes from the Hacker’s Dictionary, where it means the state of being a novice programmer or techie. The panelists were Eric…
This post talks about an ASP.NET Core web application with Angular 8 frontend. The application I use as an example was based on a skeleton…
What this panel was supposed to be about, according to the ArmadilloCon program book: “The 20th Century saw great advancements in technology and many cultural…
Panelists: David Lee Anderson, Ctein (moderator), John Gibbons, Wil McCarthy What this panel was supposed to be about, according to the ArmadilloCon program book: “Our…
Panelists: David Lee Anderson, Kurt Baty, Tom Becker, Alexis Glynn Latner, Wil McCarthy At least one of the usual suspects’ opinion on the topic of…
I finally got to meet Charles Stross in person at the pre-ArmadilloCon pizza lunch. The pizza place, Mangia, is crowded at lunchtime. Its acoustics would…