So, if you’re in Canada and you pay attention in politics, you probably know that in British Columbia, John Horgan, the leader of the BC New Democratic Party has stepped down, and that there’s supposed to be a leadership race on between two candidates. There’s the established candidate, the former Attorney General of British Columbia,…

My employer has this benefit where I get a sabbatical every five years. I somehow made it to my second sabbatical, which I’m currently still on for another three weeks. Due to being a parent, I decided that I would do solo travel when my kid was still in School, and I started my trip…

(Disclaimer: This post is going to be relatively centerist in tone. Apologies in advance, but if you’re writing about settler colonialism and are writing about how Canada is a bunch of oil companies in a trenchcooat, you are not the intended audience and you already know why this bill is going to censor you.) So….right…

Remember the old days, when we argued over open licences, and when we wrongfully assumed that Open Source had some form of moral superiority, like software lived in a vaccum unaffected by the events in the modern world. The reality is that never ever existed. Open Source has always been simply a process for authoring…

I am a remote employee at a company hostile to remote work. I have been a remote employee at a company hostile to remote work for twelve years now, and ten of those years have been due to remote work. Despite this fact, my employer provides me with various benefits for me to work remotely,…

It occurred to me that I haven’t written anything since August 2018 about how I switched from working on PhoneGap and Apache Cordova to working on a team that is internal facing at Adobe. I also realized that the majority of the content on infil00p.org hasn’t aged well, so I decided to throw it all…