Clan 2025 Wrap-Up: From Infrastructure to a New Computing Paradigm

Give Smart People The Tools To Do Smart Things

Rather than telling them you will replace them with a clanker

Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media

Decentralizing the governance of social computing systems to communities promises to empower them to make independent decisions, with nuance and in accordance with their values. Yet, communities do not govern in isolation. Many problems communities face are common, or move across their boundaries. We therefore propose designing for "inter-community governance:" mechanisms that support relationships and interactions between communities to coordinate on governance issues. Drawing from workshops with 24 individuals on decentralized, community-run social media, we present six challenges in designing for inter-community governance surfaced through ideas proposed in workshops. Together, these ideas come together as an ecosystem of resources, infrastructures, and tools that highlight three key principles for designing for inter-community governance: modularity, forkability, and polycentricity. We end with a discussion of how the ideas proposed in workshops might be implemented in future work aiming to support community governance in social computing systems broadly.

'A new industry with a new identity:' Canadian devs in 2026

We spoke to developers at Toronto Canada's XP Game Summit to see how they are getting by in increasingly tumultuous times.

2026-04-25

Thoughts about design, code, technology and everything in between.

OC Inc. Strategy 2023-2024: Mature Platform + Connected Teams = Strong Foundations

The next two years are about maturing the OC Inc. platform and connecting our teams so that we can scale our impact in the years to come.

Legislation as Code | Version: 2

Deploy documents as digital infrastructure

The Next Two Years of Software Engineering

Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the evolving ...

vitalik.eth on Twitter / X

2026 is the year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty.But this applies far beyond the blockchain world.In 2025, I made two major changes to the software I use:* Switched almost fully to https://t.co/caFP0K5fYF (open source encrypted decentralized docs)*…— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) January 22, 2026

Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms

Folk Tech Futures Workshop & Atmospheric Afterpartea · Luma

Join us for our next in-person Folk Tech event! What could the future look like in a world of open protocols and community-driven technology? What could we do…

Securing our future: July 2026 progress report on Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative | Microsoft Security Blog

Microsoft’s latest Secure Future Initiative report outlines progress on secure foundations, AI-powered defense, and future-ready cybersecurity.

CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2024: ⚡ Lightning Talk: Securing Your Systems...

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Sustainable software manifesto

The systems we build are never neutral. They can magnify harm or support a just and sustainable society. How we build today shapes tomorrow’s possibilities.

Modal Collective

We do development, design, organizing, policy campaigning, and more to make computing more useful, secure, and resilient. Our work is centered around software infrastructure projects such as GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, systemd, and the Linux kernel.