Every Noise

Every Noise is a website for music discovery. It is spare. You don't experience it with your eyes. Its main page is a tag map of genres. Scroll or search, click to get a sample, repeat. It is absolutely thrilling fun. It turns out I like Sambass? Every Noise sifted …



Open Sourcing Checklist

Taking an existing, non-open codebase into the open is one of those tasks that seems relatively simple --- apply open source license and publish the code. In practice, however, there is some hidden complexity along the way, and many projects start out with the best of intentions but fail to complete …



Main screen turn on!

All this self-hosted fediverse stuff has me nostalgic for the blogs of yore. I also needed a place to put some notes where I could share them. You might notice that this post is not the oldest item on the site. I am backfilling some of the other things I've …



Spot The Pattern: Commoditization

(This is the fifth post in our Open Source At Large series.) Last week, I spoke with the CEO of a company that makes a proprietary, category-leading workflow product. He asked me "what should we open source and when?" This is one of the most common questions we get. There …