I've been reading "The inmates are running the asylum" lately, and wow, is this book blowing my mind. I was amazed straight from the foreword, where the author states that the problems with the current software development process are due to accountancy, and then actually manages to explain it in …

Over a few weeks, I taught a group of 6 teenagers, complete beginners, how to program using Python as the main language to illustrate concepts and to code examples. There were 4 sessions lasting 3 hours each. The final session was about 3 weeks ago and since then I've been …

Had an awesome time at OSS Bar Camp yesterday! I attended some awesome talks about healthcare in developing countries, automating documentation, open-source sustainability, SELinux, ZFS/BTRFS, UCD open-source lab... (which I hope to go visit for Irish coding day next week-end, after hearing some awesome things about their facilities.)

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The moving house thingie went well, love the new quiet location. This being Ireland, of course, I still don't have Internets... Ah well. As of 2 hours ago I am now the proud and confused owner of a pair of glasses, trying out the world with anti-aliasing on. It's weird …

Through a series of kinda mind boggling coincidences, meeting people and talking about what I have in mind and am passionate about, earlier this month I ended up with commit access to the Pippy activity (a Sugar application). Wow! Awesome. A few weeks back, I had decided to fix as …