Formulating an AI policy for my free software projects Introduction Lately I felt some pressure to formulate my stance on AI contributions in free open source software (FOSS) projects, as over time it is probably inevitable that I will be confronted with more AI-based pull requests in projects I (co-)maintain. The...
Van Gogh (composed by Virginio Aiello)
She was Running (composed by Max Richter) From the TV series L'Amica Geniale (My brilliant friend)
Fiducia Consolabile This is my own composition. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA). A pure audio-only version is available here.
Text processing on the command line - sharing my tools Introduction I'm quite fond of the command-line and spend a larger chunk of my life in a terminal emulator than I dare admit. I try to embrace the unix philosophy of using tools that "do one thing only, and do it well" and "interconnect largely via plain text...
Do not Restrict Me! How copy protection (DRM) on e-books harms our freedom and what to do about it Part I: DRM Hell Like many people, I like reading books. My favourite genre is science fiction, but I also like the occasional gay romance and I love to diversify by reading books in different languages. My home isn't...
Canto Ostinato - Simeon Ten Holt This is my own interpretation of (small part of) Simeon Ten Holt's wonderful composition "Canto Ostinato", famous for its repetitive nature.
There seems to be a bit of a hype going currently amongst bloggers where people post what their so-called "default apps" or mostly used applications are, apparently prompted by this podcast and Robb Knight's list . I see most of the participants posting a variety of often Apple-based proprietary software. I thought...
Rant against centralising e-mail in big-tech silos, and breaking the internet in the process Universities and research institutes used to be at the forefront when it comes to development of the fundamental technologies that power the internet. As early as 1965, researchers at MIT developed a kind of precursor to...
STAM: Stand-off Text Annotation Model STAM is a data model for stand-off text annotation. The underlying premise is that any information on a text is represented as an annotation. We define an annotation as any kind of remark, classification/tagging on any particular portion(s) of a text, or on the resource or...
Todo.txt More: Efficiently managing your todo list and your time Introduction I tend to get fairly enthusiastic when it comes to lists, even more so when there's a chance to optimise my productivity. The end of the year is a time for looking backward and forward, so what better time to revise my time management...
This is a set of complementary extensions for todo.txt . I wrote an extensive [/posts/todo/](blog post about it) which should give a good impression of what it can do. The following extensions are implemented: more - Main entry point, shortcut invoking various underlying plugins. By default displays a list with...
