An independent conference on software reliability in Columbia, MO on July 16-17, 2026
Home - Society of Research Software Engineering
The tenth annual conference for Research Software Engineering will take place on 9–11 September 2026 in Sheffield, UK.
Local-First Software Unconference · Luma
On Sat September 23, 2023, immediately following the Strange Loop conference, we are holding a community event for everybody interested in local-first software…
Software Testing Conferences
A simple list of software testing conferences and workshops, published collaboratively with the software testing community.
A distributed systems reliability glossary
A list of key concepts for building and testing reliable distributed systems, with basic definitions and deep references.
Composure
On yet another foray into the list of opinions I have that I’m sure are making me progressively more unemployable by the day, I asked some people on the internet: who is doing interesting work on software composability these days and where do I find them?
Designing for failure
Nobody starts a free-software project hoping that it will fail, so it is a rare project indeed [...]
On Long Term Software Development - Bert Hubert's writings
Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software. Much software is now provided as a service, and is typically deployed continuously (CD, continuous deployment), surrounded by enough automated testing (CI, continuous integration) that we can be reasonably sure that a new revision is likely to at least work to some extent.
A whole new GitHub Universe: announcing new tools, forums, and features
Today I welcomed more than 1,500 people to our second annual Universe conference in San Francisco, an event designed to celebrate the people building the future of software. It’s an…
Schedule – Local-First Conf 2026
The world's first and best event dedicated to local-first software.
Aspiration | Better Tools for a Better World
It's our 23rd Anniversary! Nonprofit staff, developers, capacity builders, and grassroots activists will convene at the 2026 Nonprofit Software Development Summit, 18-20 November, 2026, to share knowledge, build capacity, and collectively envision the future of free, open and equitable digital tools and practices to support social change efforts.
You have to beat the models at something
In 2025, I wrote that software engineers ought to be assessed by “value over replacement”: not how much money they made for their company, but how much they…
Building more resilient local-first software with atproto – Day 1 – Local-First Conf 2026
The world's first and best event dedicated to local-first software.
A plan for open source software maintainers
It seems to me that this is a case where problems are in fact solutions to other problems. To wit:
IndiaFOSS 2026
The 6th edition of the Free and Open Source Software Festival by the FOSS United community.
