The Square Peg Foundation Journey
I wrote a short thing about our long journey together creating and building Square Peg Foundation. It’s over on the Square Peg blog: https://www.squarepegfoundation.org/2016/01/a-journey-together/
A New Beginning…
I’ve occasionally thought about grabbing this domain, dariusdunlap.com, for some time. As I was getting some new things setup on my various blogs, I realized that now was the time. More will appear here over the coming days, including some of the archives from my old consulting business website and other stuff. I’m working to…
Feed That Wolf
The One You Feed is a show I often listen to on my hikes or while doing chores around the house. It starts with the parable of the two wolves. You know the one. They have great guests and it’s always an interesting conversation. The guest this week is our friend Kristin Neff, who my wife and I met…
Webmention testing, part 2
Let’s see if this mention goes back to my withkown site: https://darius.withknown.com/2015/replying-to-indieweb-post—test-wgebmention (Sorry about the misspelling.)
Paying down technical debt…
After the update to wordpress 4.4 beta, activating a certain plugin caused wordpress to fail, delivering empty pages. After fixing that, I’m going back through to test a few things to be sure stuff is back to ok.
Indieweb Audit
At indiewebcamp, and my first step is to audit all the stuff I have and find the holes and any problems.
You are not your depression
Conversations on depression have been flowing around the tech community for the last few months. It’s important, and many people have written about their experiences. There is some wonderful, helpful, and deeply personal insights out there. This morning I found one that really hit me. Mike Monteiro is a Designer and runs Mule Design Studio in…
Fight to Make Your Product Great
In the mid-80’s I took my second tech job, at a company called Silicon Graphics, Inc. SGI, before it officially contracted its name to “SGI”, was a fantastic place to grow and learn. It was intense and focused, and my modest technical know-how in Unix, TCP/IP Networking, and Computer Hardware matched well as the company…
IIW, an Open Space Conference
IIW uses the Open Space Technology process for self-organizing the conference. The importance of all of this is often unclear to the newcomer, but people come around, as they come to understand that there rules generate a conference that works much like the hallways and bars in traditional conferences. The whole thing becomes a great swirling…
IIW XXI Begins
Internet Identity Workshop is my favorite conference. The topics covered, which span across Identity, Privacy, Community, and Security and more, continue to be relevant even after more than a decade. The “Open Spaces” format generates lively discussions across a range of topics, all created on the spot by the participants. It’s also a conference full…