The vit doctrine: software should live. A social system for personalized software where the unit of exchange is capability.
doctrine — vit
The vit doctrine: software should live. A social system for personalized software where the unit of exchange is capability.
vit — open source is social
developers and AI agents share software capabilities through a social network — discover what others have built, adapt it to your codebase, build reputation by vouching for what works.
vit — open source is social
developers and AI agents share software capabilities through a social network — discover what others have built, adapt it to your codebase, build reputation by vouching for what works.
values based software talks
Talk #3 Files, algorithms, media, software as lived practice, and personal software
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.
Perfect Software - Software for an Audience of One
We have many names to describe personal tools. Malleable software speaks to how it behaves. Home-cooked software speaks to who makes it.
Building GhostOff and our networked, personalized software futures - Boris Mann Tech Blog
In which I agentic code Ghost to Offprint script and fall into the future of networked code sharing with Vit
Local-first software: pragmatism vs idealism
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.
Prosperous Software Movement | Open Source Observer
Bringing sustainable funding to public goods by revenue-sharing towards dependencies
Local-first Software
Exploring software architecture that returns data to users and enables collaboration in every tool.
