FOSS and Crafts

62: Blender

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 t

61: A Textile Historian's Survival Guide

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 tex

60: Governance, part 2

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 archety

59: Governance, part 1

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 collabor

58: WebAssembly

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 i

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

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

56: Make your own dehydrated meals

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, m

55: Free Soft Wear

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 V

54: Oops!

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

53: Fediverse reflections while the bird burns

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 o

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

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... l

51: #vanlife...?

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 s

50: The Spritely Institute

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

49: Lisp but Beautiful; Lisp for Everyone

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-pres

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

The amazing Sophie Jantak joins us to talk about how she makes pet portraits (including one she made for us!) using Blender's Grease Pencil. Hear about Sophie's process,

47: What is Lisp?

This episode is all about the Lisp family of programming languages! Ever looked at Lisp and wondered why so many programmers gush about such a weird looking programming l

46: Mark S. Miller on Distributed Objects, Part 1

Calling all programming language nerds! Distinguished computer scientist Mark S. Miller (presently at Agoric) joins us to tell us all about distributed object programming

45: A high level introduction to cryptography

In this episode we give a very (very) high level introduction to cryptography concepts. No math or programming background required! Links: Crypto 101, probably the BEST

44: Celebrating a Decade of Guix

Guix turns ten! We celebrate Guix's first decade by highlighting ten great things about Guix! Hear all about functional package management, time-traveling operating syste

43: Repetitive Strain Injuries

This week we’re talking about Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI). Christine and Morgan tell their stories bout over-using their wrists from programming (prodded along by an