Links of the Day

Published May 22, 2020 by Alex C-G

• Why the entire open source movement is under threat right now: With no conferences, the pandemic is doing a number on fundraising for FOSS projects
• Open Sourcing the People’s Code: A look at the challenges of open-sourcing federally funded code
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: A long (and excellent) fanfic which asks what would happen had Harry been a scientist and attended Hogwarts. Re-reading it for like the fourth time now
• The Deprecated *nix API: Funny how much of the “core” *nix tools people (myself included) don’t use any more