Steven Deobald

3rd wave open source, vipassana, chai, fixies, other stuff.

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home: https://www.deobald.ca
dave in the 'hood: क्षतिबान डियूबाल्ड

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2025-09-28 22:30:06 UTC

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neat! i was going to say that'd be tough gear to make out of foam and still have intact at the end of the night.
the costume looks really good! now you need some folks willing to do the other characters :)

2025-07-05 18:09:11 UTC

this week’s @npub1dug…kxeq foundation report is out:
https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/07/05/2025-07-05-foundation-update/
there’s a small appeal at the end for some help for a hacker who is currently in an unsafe situation in the usa. if you can help, please contact me.
#gnome

2025-06-26 06:33:01 UTC

it's been a very difficult year or two for @npub1dug…kxeq and, to continue to exist, the foundation really needs you.
however, we first want to ask you to *donate less*:
https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/06/26/donate-less/
#gnome

2025-06-13 19:30:48 UTC

been holed up in the woods for a couple of days hacking on something new with [@barthalion](https://social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion ) and @npub1za7…0y8l … hopefully landing today or tomorrow.
@npub1ntw…lqwg this is the setup. “rustic.” 😂
https://fantastic.earth/system/media_attachments/files/114/677/710/772/035/135/original/05065d68f8a4f6bf.jpeg

2025-02-22 00:43:38 UTC

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earth... link.
wow.
one of these weeks i'm expecting to hear about you helping someone with their compuserve account.

2025-01-28 20:17:44 UTC

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when the time comes, and you need to grow your team, if you're willing to take on an even older guy (in spirit, if not in body, i have no idea how old you are) whose greatest asset is stubbornness, i will always be interested in your mission:
https://www.deobald.ca/essays/2025-01-01-i-am-looking-for-work-taylors-version/
good luck.

2025-01-22 13:13:25 UTC

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“noteworthy” hard to pin down. i can’t imagine anyone else doing this work (it didn’t happen until now) and i *can* imagine a world which asks “how did we get here?” — a question which this one document provides answers for, across a pretty big gap. a gap in a product that produced a trillion-dollar corporation. i think the value of your work is self-evident.
i might care a lot more about software archaeology than most people, though. 🤷‍♀️ 😂

2025-01-22 02:24:23 UTC

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i'm not really a competent wikipedia editor, but maybe @npub1prs…eh8y could make. jessamyn, i know you usually just do dead people but i'm kind of surprised nina doesn't have a wikipedia page yet. this is her latest thing, and it's a delight, in addition to being useful hacker archaeology:
https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/win2/
plz just ignore me if this isn't the sort of thing a person asks another person to do (or on someone's behalf without their permission)... i really have no idea how wikipedia works behind the scenes. maybe it's all like this. maybe it's magic.

2024-08-22 08:52:10 UTC

i wrote a little thing on "third wave open source" that's been kicking around my brain for years:
https://www.deobald.ca/essays/2024-08-13-third-wave-commercial-open-source/
i've also been looking at companies that fit this loose categorization (for work). can you think of any really good ones i've missed?