Writing

Essays and notes on open source, space, architecture and the communities around them. Atom feed

• 9 October 2026 Born classified

  Space has been closed by default since it grew out of missile programmes. That's inertia, not engineering, and open source is the better deal for everyone trying to get in.

• 27 September 2026 Collectivists with power tools

  A reply to the LLM policy debate in GNOME and KDE. You can be a FLOSS collectivist and still use LLMs as tools.