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As someone living in the exurbs of Detroit, this is something I've been familiar with for a few years. It's mostly common in the more rural areas, but it does creep into suburbia f…

There are tons of blogs and aggregators targeted at junior engineers, but I've found it harder to locate blogs targeted for engineers at the senior and up levels. The blogs can be …

I bought a Precision laptop preloaded with Ubuntu about 8 months ago and it's been awesome. The only problem I've run into is that I completely lose audio every time I reboot. A qu…

Not exactly software, per se, but Font Awesome did it for version 5. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232193852/font-awesome-...

I like this, but I can imagine it being a hard sell even at just 5%.

That's fair. My observation is admittedly entirely anecdotal.

In general, my thought is that by finding an unobtrusive way to generate revenue you can devote more time to the project and produce a higher quality, better supported product. Thi…

I considered not replying to this just based on the tone, but here we go. If I (theoretically) charge large corporations for SLA support, that means I can devote more time and effo…

I don't own/lead any significant open source projects, but it seems like there are very few projects that even attempt to monetize via dual-licensing, service contracts, etc. Is th…

I typically start a docker container running the DB that I need and then import a backup of any existing data. This could be taken even further by keeping an image with the current…

Thanks! Did you already have some audience to start with (i.e. blog readers, Twitter followers, etc) or were you starting from scratch?

I'm interested in self publishing a programming book and/or video courses. Is there a crowdfunding site focused on technical content? The few examples I've found on Kickstarter and…