- Lisa Dusseault Interoperability standards
Palo Alto, CA USA
Reflections on a career trying to make software systems work together for users, across competing companies and standards bodies.
- Drew Hornbein Tarot
Denver CO
Summoning experiences of magic through art, divination, tattooing, and software.
- Bryan Newbold Protocol engineering
Seattle, WA
A protocol engineer at the social-media platform Bluesky describes building an open protocol around a fast-growing social media platform.
- Robin Berjon Web standards
Brussels, Belgium
The standards that govern the World Wide Web develop at the intersection of profit-seeking companies, nonprofit organizations, and small groups of people with rarefied expertise.
- Alinagwe Mwaselela Saving circles
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The practice of collective savings and lending takes many forms, from women-led community finance to mobile-money software.
- Richard Littauer Constructed languages
Wellington, NZ
Constructed languages, or conlangs, are the basis of a hobby, a science, and a community that now occupies a small corner of the entertainment industry.
- Federico Ast Decentralized justice
How a blockchain-based protocol is prefiguring an Internet-native justice system.
- Evan Prodromou Distributed social networks
Montreal, Canada
A career-long journey to build online social networks that cannot be controlled by a single company, culminating with the ActivityPub standard.
- Coraline Ada Ehmke Codes of conduct
Chicago, USA
After widespread resistance to codes of conduct in open-source software communities, Coraline Ada Ehmke's Contributor Covenant became the most popular code of conduct in the ecosystem.