What is Silicon Valley?

And why is it killing your industry?

We Are the Monkeys of Rum

What horrible affliction are you?

“I remember coming out. I…

What is open source?

Over the last few years, I’ve been a part of lots of discussions — across domains, from technology to journalism and…

What is an API?

Over the last year, I’ve participated in lots of conversations across domains — in media, and particularly in ed-tech — about APIs…

Competitive Endurance Tickling was the encore.

We were the opening act.

I’m a startup founder. Here’s why I support Bernie Sanders.

Buying Twitter is a fairy tale. #WeAreTwitter

Here’s how a cooperative could build the next generation…

How I built a robot me

Siri-ously

Bots are hot. Perhaps it’s because chat (via Slack) has finally taken hold of company communications; perhaps it’s because everyone’s realized that nobody installs apps. Maybe some engineers are hankering after the cozy days of the command line…

From the Don’t-Say-I-Didn’t-Warn-You Dept.

An open listicle to startup founders

Git for teachers

It’s all fun and games until you hit a merge conflict

Git is a source code version control system very tightly bound to development practices. Unlike most of its predecessors, it allows developers to work in a truly decentralized way: you…