Blender, the absolute powerhouse of FOSS 3d (and increasingly 2d) graphics!We give an overview of the software's history, some personal history ofour relationships to the software, what it can do, and where we're excitedto see it go! Links: Blender Blender history Grease pencil Some historical Blender videos from the NeoGeo and Not a Number days: D…

How do you survive in a world that is no longer optimized for makingyour own clothing when you suddenly find that modern conveniences nolonger accommodate you? As a textile historian, Morgan has beenruminating for years about women’s contributions to the domesticeconomy, the massive time investment of producing clothing for afamily, and the compara…

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 archetypes. Links: Cygnus, Cygwin Mastodon Android Free Software Foundation, GNU Software Freedom Conservancy, Outreachy, Conservancy's copyleft compliance projects Commons Conservancy F-Dro…

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 collaborative free culture projects too!) Links: Why We Need Code of Conducts, and Why They're Not Enough, by Aeva Black Blender Cloud and the Blender Development Fund…

WebAssembly! You've probably heard lots about it, but what the heckis it? Is it just for C and Rust programs? Can you write it by hand?(Do you want to?) And wait, how is Spritely getting involved inWebAssembly efforts? Find out! Links: WebAssembly Hoot! (and Hoot announcement, Andy Wingo joining, Robin Templeton joining) Lisp Game Jam - "Wireworld"…

F-Droid, a repository of free software for your Android devices!Christine interviews F-Droid developers Sylvia van Os andHans-Christoph Steiner as well as F-Droid board member and chair...Morgan Lemmer-Webber! Links: F-Droid Sylvia van Os Hans-Christoph Steiner F-Droid board announcement Guardian Project Google Play bans Matrix/Element Catima Your …

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, maybe you want more consistent or dietary needs friendly travelfood!Maybe you want to go camping or hiking!Maybe you're sick of deciding what's for lunch and you just want toscoop a cu…

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 Valhalla’s repository of CC BY-SA sewing patterns Morgan's blog Free Soft Wear index Dice bag and simple skirt tutorials RSI Glove pattern Simple sweater Layered Skirt Kat Walsh or @ka…

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 the day. Look, this is admittedly kind of a fluff episode. Have we linked to Worse is Better before? We did? In the lisp episode? And here's the Terminal Phase episode…

Twitter is burning, and people are flocking to the fediverse. Is thefediverse ready though? How did we get here? Where should we begoing? Since Christine is co-author of ActivityPub, the primaryprotocol used by the fediverse, Morgan decides it's time to getChristine's thoughts recorded and out there... so we hop in the car aswe talk all about it! L…

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 ofSpritely Goblins...like time travel: Well, Terminal Phase has been Christine's fun/downtime project for thelast few years, and one of the bonuses you can get for the rewardtiers of donating to this podcast…

Morgan and Christine walk through their (well, Morgan's) renovation ofa cargo van into a campervan. This is a very crafty episode, but we dowork in a few analogies to some FOSS (and open hardware) things! Show notes at the end, but how about a quick visual van tour? Back of the van, wide open! A closer look... Actually, let's move that solar panel …

The Spritely Institute(of which Christine is CTO) justannounced its multi-year grantby the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Weband gave a tour of its current tech!This is a big moment that's been in the works for a while, asSpritely moves hands towards real stewardship by areal nonprofit! Also also! The video recording of the Lisp/Scheme w…