Author: ms

Uncanny random encounter with a display glitch, while visiting the Bibliothèque nationale de France last saturday.

In the past days, I came across two different documentary projects centered around programming and computer culture. They stress how essential it is to keep a historical, critical and human-centered record of the evolution of computer- and software-culture : 6502, Tape, Arcade Jason Scott – historian, archivist, and filmmaker, creator of textfiles.com, founder of the…

The browser as a reading/archiving tool. In response to Asa Dotzler’s question «What feature do you love most in your favorite browser and why?»

Travaillant à la mise en place d’un site de communication développeur-client, j’ai opté pour le thème WordPress P2, développé et utilisé à l’interne par l’équipe d’Automattic. Constatant que la dernière localisation française (effectuée par Nicolas Friedli) remontait à 2009 , et n’était plus compatible avec la version courante de P2 (1.3.3), j’ai décidé de prendre…

Thanks to Jeremy Keith’s post “stallmania“, I came across this hilarious site that presents imaginary dialogues with Richard Stallman, directly based on Stallman’s lengthy list of requirements for conference organisers. Stallman’s conference rider actually makes for a very entertaining reading, and contains some true gems, as this one: “Many countries have a law that hotels…