Tag: management and business
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The post-lockdown work rave, abuse, and shortened fuses
This article is a mix of personal stories, social & interpersonal psychology, and technology (with some drive-by remarks about Free & Open Source software). I originally drafted this article in the fall of 2021 and winter of 2022, but I needed more time to rewrite it a fourth time (because why not). So, while this…
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How long does it take to create a website? (and why your FLOSS project doesn’t need one)
A case study on how long it takes to create a fairly simple, high-quality website
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Year MMXV summarized in 2 ½ minutes
I’m doing a quick retrospective on the last seven years (you’ll see why later). In this first part, here’s a short overview of what I did in 2015 (2 to 3 minutes reading time): In the spring of 2015, I wrote a blog post reporting on my first term (2014-2015) as the president of the…
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The post-2020 Linux server landscape metamorphosis
It used to be that you could deploy a server, and forget it for years. The accelerated pace of web development puts pressure, and Red Hat’s changes to CentOS may be bringing about the biggest platform migration in years.
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CMSes & static site generators: why I (still) chose WordPress for my business websites
After much technological progress and considerations, I now have the tools to make this work in a way that meets my expectations.
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Introducing Regento, marketing for FLOSS-centric companies and transitioning industries
In this blog post, I’m taking a quick break from my GTG blogging frenzy to talk about another one of my non-software projects from the past few months years (estimated reading time: 3 ½ minutes). Some may remember I previously introduced the Atypica collective as a dedicated place where I could showcase some of my…
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The origins of the Flow Game 🎥
Let’s kickstart the new year with a short & simple blog post, as a way to get me back on the blogging treadmill, and as a way to ensure my blog still works fine (I have just finished a very heavy-handed migration and database encoding surgery for my blog, which took months to solve… that’ll…
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Introducing Atypica
A while ago, I envisioned building a new* professional video production collective for commercial and non-commercial projects, both as a “creative outlet” for one of my long-standing passions, and as a way to build a specialized service offering that can act as a bridge between my own Montreal-based marketing agency and other collaborators or artists…
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Rebuild of EvanGTGelion: Getting Things GNOME 0.4 released!
We are very proud to be announcing today the 0.4 release of Getting Things GNOME (“GTG”), codenamed “You Are (Not) Done”. This much-awaited release is a major overhaul that brings together many updates and enhancements, including new features, a modernized user interface and updated underlying technology. Beyond what is featured in these summarized release notes…
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Overhauling your Open Source project's "Developer Experience" and redefining the workflow
A collection of observations and insights about attracting contributors by improving the developer experience of your open source project, particularly if you don’t have the luxury of paid developers.