I recently announced my new book project, focusing on ethical FOSS social media, and I'm trying an experiment in writing it openly. That's Goal 2 of this blog (Goal 1 being discussions of my actually using FOSS to complete this task). To that end, I've decided to share items I've found as I do my research.

Hey friend, In the last Mektup, I talked about which skills you should learn in the new year. Improving your skills and learning new ones help you take a step forward. However, you can't do these things alone. Your manager has to support you. Today, I will talk about what you can expect from your manager in your...

My goodness, what a website this is: All 2,242 illustrations from James Sowerby’s compendium of knowledge about mineralogy in Great Britain and beyond, drawn 1802–1817 and arranged by color. I’m unfamiliar with Nicholas Rougeaux’s work but this is truly a lovely website. He reconstructed the source material from the...