52: Terminal Phase: A Space Shooter That Runs In Your Terminal! FOSS And Crafts podcast

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Blender, the absolute powerhouse of FOSS 3d (and increasingly 2d) graphics! We give an overview of the software's history, some personal history of our relationships to the software, what it can do, and where we're excited to see it go! Links: Blender Blender history Grease pencil Some historical Blender videos from the NeoGeo and Not a Number days: Did It, Done It , Not a Number commercial , Come and See Elephants Dream , aka Project Orange Big Buck Bunny Previous episodes on blender: Blender for open movie productions and education Sophie Jantak on pet portraits and Blender's Grease Pencil Blender Conference videos mentioned: Inklines Across The Spiderverse My Journey Across the Spider-Verse: from Hobbyist to Hollywood Forensic Architecture - spatial analysis for human rights cases The MediaGoblin campaign video (well, the second one) 14th anniversary animation gift to Morgan In Unexpected Places Seams to Sewing Pattern (a Blender plugin for making clothes and stuffed animals!) (could we make Free Soft Wear patterns with it?) Wing It! Wing It! Production Logs and Blenderheads Episodes about lisp, because obviously Blender needs more lisp (who's going to do it): What is Lisp? Lisp but Beautiful, Lisp for Everyone…

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61: A Textile Historian's Survival Guide

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How do you survive in a world that is no longer optimized for making your own clothing when you suddenly find that modern conveniences no longer accommodate you? As a textile historian, Morgan has been ruminating for years about women’s contributions to the domestic economy, the massive time investment of producing clothing for a family, and the comparative properties of different textile fibers. These research interests were informed by a lifetime of sewing and other fiber crafts. None of this experience, however, properly prepared her to face the reality of needing to rely on her own hands to provide large portions of her own wardrobe. Guest co-host Juliana Sims sits down with Morgan to talk about how, in the wake of a recently developed allergy to synthetic fabrics, she now finds herself putting that knowledge of historical textile production to use to produce clothing that she can wear. Links and other notes: Morgan presented this as a (much shorter) talk at the Dress Conference 2023 Slides from the presentation Morgan's Dissertation , which we also covered RSI Glove Pattern The quote that Morgan somewhat misremembered about a woman preparing wool before the winter: "A thrifty countrywoman had a small croft, she and her sturdy spouse. He tilled his own land, whether the work called for the plough, or the curved sickle, or the hoe. She would now sweep the cottage, supported on props; now she would set the eggs to be hatched under the plumage of the brooding hen; or she gathered green mallows or white mushrooms, or warmed the low hearth with welcome fire. And yet she diligently employed her hands at the loom, and armed herself against the threats of winter." -- Ovid, Fasti 4.687-714…

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60: Governance, part 2

2 years fa

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Back again with governance... part two! (See also: part one !) Here we talk about some organizations and how they can be seen as "templates" for certain governance archetypes. Links: Cygnus , Cygwin Mastodon Android Free Software Foundation , GNU Software Freedom Conservancy , Outreachy , Conservancy's copyleft compliance projects Commons Conservancy F-Droid Open Collective Linux Foundation 501(c)(3) vs 501(c)(6) Stitchting Free as in Freedom LKML (the Linux Kernel Mailing List) Linus Doesn't Scale Spritely Networked Communities Institute Python and the Python Software Foundation , PyCon , the Python Package Index Python PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals) , XMPP XEPs , Fediverse FEPs , Rust RFCs Blender , Blender Foundation , Blender Institute , Blender Studio Blender's history Elephants Dream Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation Debian , Debian's organizational structure , and Debian's constitution EFF Oh yeah and I guess we should link the World History Association !…

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59: Governance, part 1

2 years fa

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Governance of FOSS projects, a two parter, and this is part one! Here we talk about general considerations applicable to FOSS projects! (And heck, these apply to collaborative free culture projects too!) Links: Why We Need Code of Conducts, and Why They're Not Enough, by Aeva Black Blender Cloud and the Blender Development Fund…

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58: WebAssembly

2 years fa

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WebAssembly! You've probably heard lots about it, but what the heck is it? Is it just for C and Rust programs? Can you write it by hand? (Do you want to?) And wait, how is Spritely getting involved in WebAssembly efforts? Find out! Links: WebAssembly Hoot! (and Hoot announcement , Andy Wingo joining , Robin Templeton joining ) Lisp Game Jam - "Wireworld" - Hoot's low level WASM tooling in action Directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly: lambdas, recursion, iteration! Understanding the WebAssembly text format WebAssembly GC proposal Episode 49: Lisp but Beautiful; Lisp for Everyone WASI POSIX Episode 17: Gardening, from seedling to seasoned Conway's Game of Life WASM-4 Episode 46: Mark S. Miller on Distributed Objects, Part 1 Schism by Eric Holk…

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57: F-Droid (featuring Sylvia van Os & Hans-Christoph Steiner!)

2 years fa

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F-Droid, a repository of free software for your Android devices! Christine interviews F-Droid developers Sylvia van Os and Hans-Christoph Steiner as well as F-Droid board member and chair... Morgan Lemmer-Webber! Links: F-Droid Sylvia van Os Hans-Christoph Steiner F-Droid board announcement Guardian Project Google Play bans Matrix/Element Catima Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell…

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56: Make your own dehydrated meals

2 years fa

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In yet another deep dive into yet another weird hobby of Christine's, we talk about how to make your own dehydrated meals! Why the heck would you want to do this? Well, maybe you want more consistent or dietary needs friendly travel food! Maybe you want to go camping or hiking! Maybe you're sick of deciding what's for lunch and you just want to scoop a cup of meal out of a jar on your desk every day! Maybe you want to weird out your fellow conference-goers as you turn a dry powder into a fully cooked meal with hot water and hot water alone! Links: Making dehydrated meals overview (Christine's Kitchen 0): [ YouTube ] [ PeerTube ] Backpacking chef Dishwasher cooking (yes it is a thing)…

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55: Free Soft Wear

2 years fa

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Morgan talks about "Free Soft Wear": textile processes under free culture licenses! Links: Morgan's talk about Free Soft Wear at the Creative Freedom Summit Elena of Valhalla ’s repository of CC BY-SA sewing patterns Morgan's blog Free Soft Wear index Dice bag and simple skirt tutorials RSI Glove pattern Simple sweater Layered Skirt Kat Walsh or @kat@stareinto.space Tall Dog Electronics face mask (You may recognize Dan and Tall Dog Electronics of TinyNES fame ) Wikimedia Commons Project Gutenberg Learning the sewing machine RSI episode FreeSewing (an open source software project that creates made-to-measure creative commons licensed sewing patterns)…

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54: Oops!

2 years fa

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Everyone goofs sometimes. Today we talk accidents... some happy, some not! Links: Decaf coffee and history of penicillin , your pop-sci "accidents of history" stories of the day. Look, this is admittedly kind of a fluff episode. Have we linked to Worse is Better before? We did? In the lisp episode ? And here's the Terminal Phase episode…

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53: Fediverse reflections while the bird burns

2 years fa

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Twitter is burning, and people are flocking to the fediverse. Is the fediverse ready though? How did we get here? Where should we be going? Since Christine is co-author of ActivityPub, the primary protocol used by the fediverse, Morgan decides it's time to get Christine's thoughts recorded and out there... so we hop in the car as we talk all about it! Links: ActivityPub , the protocol which wires the federated social web together, of which Christine is co-author! Be sure to check out the Overview section ... it's actually fairly easy to understand! Some of the implementations discussed (though there are many more): Mastodon Peertube Pixelfed Pleroma A lot has been written about Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. Here's a pretty decent timeline (though it's missing the transphobia stuff ). W3C Social Web Working Group is where ActivityPub was standardized OcapPub (while not complete, it lays out a lot of the core problems with the way the fediverse has gone) The Spritely Institute Previous episodes on Spritely: What is Spritely? , Spritely Updates! (November 2021) , and sorta kinda the Terminal Phase episode The Presentation of Self on a Decentralized Web (PhD dissertation by ActivityPub co-author Amy Guy, partly covers its standardization) SMTP and XMPP can be seen as decentralized "social networks" before that term took off OStatus pump.io is where the pump.io API came from, which is the direct predecessor to ActivityPub StatusNet / GNU Social Diaspora MediaGoblin APConf videos Context Collapse Early writeups from Christine some of these ideas, but are old: ActivityPub: from decentralied to distributed social networks magenc crystal golem…

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52: Terminal Phase: a space shooter that runs in your terminal!

2 years fa

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Terminal Phase! A space shooter that runs in your terminal!!! Who wouldn't be excited about that? Not to mention that it shows off cool features of Spritely Goblins ... like time travel: Well, Terminal Phase has been Christine's fun/downtime project for the last few years, and one of the bonuses you can get for the reward tiers of donating to this podcast! And yet we've never done an episode about it! Given that a brand new (and much easier to install) release of Terminal Phase is coming out really soon, we figured now's a good time to talk about it! Links: Terminal Phase! Blogposts about Terminal Phase! Project announcement 1.0 announcement Time travel debugging in Spritely Goblins, previewed through Terminal Phase 1.1 announcement Terminal Phase was in a Polish "Linux magazine"! FOSS & Crafts' Patreon Spritely Goblins , a project of the Spritely Institute Blast off! A tour of Spritely Institute's tech Racket Guile Guix 8sync (Goblins predecessor). See also the Mudsync video, on that very page. Raart Spacewar! A bit about how Spacewar lead to UNICS (later renamed Unix)…

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51: #vanlife...?

3 years fa

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Morgan and Christine walk through their (well, Morgan's) renovation of a cargo van into a campervan. This is a very crafty episode, but we do work in a few analogies to some FOSS (and open hardware) things! Show notes at the end, but how about a quick visual van tour? Back of the van, wide open! A closer look... Actually, let's move that solar panel aside... Here's a better view of the cabinet with all the equipment attached: Here's what the van looks like if you come in the side door: Another, more diagonal view: Safety first! Window covers, custom fit! Reflectix goes out, fabric goes in. The cabinet with the cargo net off... And one more view! Links: Cheap RV Living channel on YouTube Vanlife subreddit Built to Go! A #Vanlife Podcast Foresty Forest…

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50: The Spritely Institute

3 years fa

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The Spritely Institute (of which Christine is CTO) just announced its multi-year grant by the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web and gave a tour of its current tech ! This is a big moment that's been in the works for a while, as Spritely moves hands towards real stewardship by a real nonprofit ! Also also! The video recording of the Lisp/Scheme workshop (based on A Scheme Primer ) is released! Unlock Lisp / Scheme's magic: beginner to Scheme-written-in-Scheme in one hour! ( PeerTube , YouTube , ) Links: Spritely Networked Communities Institute FFDW funding announcement Tech tour Donate to the Spritely Institute ! FOSS & Crafts episodes about Spritely: The What is Spritely episode, where Morgan says "get in the car Christine you need to talk about your project", is the first time Christine laid out the broader (early) plans for Spritely in depth! (In that sense, FOSS & Crafts has been here for much of Spritely's journey, as many of our listeners know!) Spritely Updates! (November 2021) Less directly, Mark S. Miller on Distributed Objects, Part 1 talks about much of the tech that informs Spritely's design! Spritely Institute's jobs page which will have jobs posted on it like, real soon now Spritely Institute is also the org that published A Scheme Primer , which we've talked about before Free as in Freedom has talked about how the IRS has been more cautious about granting nonprofit status to FOSS orgs in Episode 0x4E (IRS Refusal Redux) Some background about Randy Farmer (Spritely Institute's Executive Director): Randy co-founded Lucasfilm's Habitat , the world's first graphical massively multiplayer virtual world, which ran on the Commodore 64 in 1985 (!!!) Revival over at neohabitat.org See the hilarious marketing video The Lessons of Lucasfilms Habitat is one of the most cited papers about virtual community designs of all times, and still holds up today Electric Communities Habitat was Habitat's followup. Hard to find information on, but here's a Randy demo'ing the system from 1997 ! The E Programming Language , on which much of Spritely is designed, came from EC Habitat. See Mark S. Miller on Distributed Objects, Part 1 for more on that (and hey, when are we getting out part 2?) Randy co-hosts a podcast called Social Media Clarity which has some interesting episodes. See also Spritely Institute's brilliant engineer Jessica Tallon writing about her experiences and especially her pebble bank design !…

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49: Lisp but Beautiful; Lisp for Everyone

3 years fa

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Morgan's out sick! And yet Morgan is still in this episode! And that's because this episode is the audio version of a talk by the very same name from FOSDEM 2022 , co-presented by Christine and Morgan! But since Morgan isn't here, Christine fills in, and also gets a bit silly. HACK AND CRAFT SCHEME TUTORIALS! The last live scheme tutorial went really well! And relatedly, Christine and the Spritely Institute just published A Scheme Primer , which is more or less the text version of that presentation! The next live verison of the sheme tutorial will be hosted at Hack & Craft ! Come this Saturday, July 16, 2pm-4pm ET (6pm-8pm UTC)! We're planning to record this one! Oh, and bonus Fructure gif: Links: The video version of this talk Episode 47: What is Lisp? Wisp and its associated SRFI-119 Fructure !!! Watch the amazing RacketCon talk!…

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48: Sophie Jantak on pet portraits and Blender's Grease Pencil

3 years fa