Rightscorp Has a Massive Database of ‘Repeat Infringers’ to Pursue
Last week the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that ISPs are required to terminate ‘repeat infringers’ based on allegations from copyright holders alone, a topic that has been contested for years. This means that copyright holders now have a bigger incentive to send takedown notices, as ISPs can’t easily ignore them. That’s music to the ears of the various piracy tracking companies, Rightscorp included....
How to use Twine and SugarCube to create interactive adventure games
Storytelling is an innate part of human nature. It’s an idle pastime, it’s an art form, it’s a communication tool, it’s a form of therapy and bonding. We all love to tell stories—you’re reading one now—and the most powerful technologies we have are generally the things that enable us to express our creative ideas. The open source project Twine is a tool for doing just that. read...
How writing can change your career for the better, even if you don't identify as a writer
Have you read Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up? Or did you, like me, buy it and read a little bit and then add it to the pile of clutter next to your bed? Early in the book, Kondo talks about keeping possessions that “spark joy.” In this article, I’ll examine ways writing about what we and other people are doing in the open source world can “spark joy,” or at least how...
Why an involved user community makes for better software
Imagine releasing a major new infrastructure service based on open source software only to discover that the product you deployed had evolved so quickly that the documentation for the version you released is no longer available. At Bloomberg, we experienced this problem firsthand in our deployment of OpenStack. In late 2016, we spent six months testing and rolling out Liberty on our OpenStack environment. By that time, Liberty was...
