The latest FOSS Academic post is: New Nextcloud with Possible Digital Sovereignty
https://fossacademic.tech/2026/02/01/new-nc.html
I discuss setting up a new Nextcloud instance on Canadian public infrastructure, moving away from my previous US-based host. I talk about the "how" of that migration (it was pretty easy, actually) and the "why" (I no longer will send Canadian money to a US firm). But how "sovereign" is the Digital Research Alliance?
#FOSSacademic #Canada #digitalsovereignty
Lastest FOSS Academic post is: Fresh New Look, Same Great Flavor!
I worked with @are0h to update the blog. Ro supplied the CSS and a cool new logo and I continue to supply the hand-crafted Python site generation. The result? Some more of that FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream.
Latest FOSS Academic post is: Oops! All Microslop. Or, Trying to Write with Microsoft.
https://fossacademic.tech/2026/01/06/oops-all-microslop.html
It's a post in which I see what it's like for me to try to create a blank document with York University's Microsoft 365 subscription.
TL;DR version is: it's all about Copilot, and starting a blank Word doc is actually kinda... hard.
The post is a bit long, but it does have a lot of screenshots + a dash of anger.
Latest FOSS Academic post is -- you guessed it -- a 2025 year in review post. Thrill to the fact that I'm using much of the same FOSS to do my work as I always have! Feel the chills as I talk about #generativeAI and how terrible it is! Above all, join me in living the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream!
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/12/21/year-in-review.html
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The lastest FOSS Academic post is a whiny, weedy gripe session where I talk about being nervous about installing new Linux distros:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/11/09/contained.html
Basically, between Snaps, Flatpaks, Wayland, and Secure Boot, installing a fresh Linux distro on a machine isn't quite as fun as it used to be. But, what can I do? Switch to Microsoft?
Hell, no!
Latest FOSS Academic is I DID IT! I DID IT! I re-implemented my static blog generator in Python and moved it off #Github onto my own hosting!
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/25/reimplemented.html
What's that? You want an archive and previews of posts? Done. Tags? Handled! Atom feed? Generated. (https://fossacademic.tech/feed.xml)
What about comments, you say?
Respond to this post and they shall appear on my blog, I say unto you.
I did it! Yay!
Latest FOSS Academic post is live!
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/19/zotero-zettlr.html
It's a note about the relative strengths and weaknesses of using #Zettlr and #Zotero for note-taking and writing. Spoiler: I thought I would use Zotero less and less, but I find myself using it just as much as I ever have.
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The latest FOSS Academic post involves more wrestling with the implications of #generativeAI for academic peer review:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/06/reviewing-ai.html
In this post, I take observations from software #developers and #openSource podcasters (such as the folks at @latenightlinux ) about how genAI is swamping things like bug bounties and code reviews. This is similar to some of the issues faced by academic peer reviewers.
The latest FOSS Academic post is short but very, very sweet, because it's the public reveal of the cover for my next book!
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/06/02/move-slowly-cover.html
Academic authors don't often get much input into the covers of their books, but for Move Slowly and Build Bridges, I was lucky enough to get Oxford to buy art from @CaribenxMarciaX. Their work "Untitled no 7" is the basis of the cover.
The latest FOSS Academic post is: "Copyediting: The Bane of the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream."
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/04/06/copyediting.html
I talk about the copyediting phase of writing a book. It often forces me to use Microsoft Word. This wasn't a big deal when I wrote my first book back in '14. Today, it's entirely different: using Microsoft Word in 2025 is basically feeding your work to an LLM machine. The post talks about a workaround I found -- this time, anyway.
Latest FOSS Academic Post: My workflow, 2025 edition:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/03/15/workflow2025.html
In which I discuss chasing the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream, a world in which an academic can get all their work done using free and open source tools. And not just coding! I'm talking about humanities writing, interview methods, sharing work on the fediverse, and so much more.
The latest FOSS Academic post is "Standards War?":
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/03/05/standardsWar.html
In which I contrast the fact that @iftas is shutting down some of its services against the advent of "Free Our Feeds," and I speculate that maybe we're seeing an ATProto/ActivityPub standards war.
Latest FOSS Academic: Introducing the Network of Alternative Social Media Researchers!
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/02/01/asmNet.html
This is a new hub for academic researchers who study alternative social media.
Pretty apropos for Global Switch Day!
Latest FOSS Academic:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/01/18/makingAlts.html
In which I talk about how state regulations are affecting the development of ActivityPub and the fediverse, and how trying to make a TOS for Loops by using an online service resulted in a surveillance capitalist-friendly document.
Latest FOSS Academic!
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/01/10/moreThreadsBskyAP.html
In which I talk about my new monitoring of Threads's fediverse blocklist, the @cwebber and Bryan Newbold debate, and the trust and safety work of @thisismissem
Latest #FOSSAcademic post is about #Threads and the failure of global #contentModeration
fossacademic.tech/2024/12/13/t...
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Latest FOSSAcademic is a note about using Marp for Markdown presentations along with BeautifulSoup to produce a presentation script, all with one file.
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/12/07/marpbeautifulsoup.html
I'm living the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream right now!
A short ASM update this week. Along with some colleagues @tstruett, @paufder, and @aram, I have a new publication out in the International Journal of Communication:
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/12/06/survive.html
The paper focuses on challenging facing this fediverse of ours.
Latest FOSS Academic: Marp!
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/12/01/marp.html
In which I discuss a Markdown-based way to make slide shows.
Thanks to @linuxmatters for alerting me to the awesomeness that is Marp.
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