As I mentioned earlier today, after 10 years we'll be closing @weareopencoop on May 1st.

If we'd been shutting down this time *last* year, it definitely would have been for lack of work. But, weirdly, this year it's a confluence of factors.

blog.dougbelshaw.com/next-chap…

(I'd better get my consultancy business, Dynamic Skillset, on the Fedi!)

The next chapter

For the past decade, I've been a founding member of a worker-owned cooperative. In a couple of months, we're closing it down to focus on other things.

^{Doug Belshaw (Open Thinkering)}

After ~5 of Being a student teacher shadowing others I've been asking myself the same question in the back of my head: Is python and scratch really the best options we have for teaching kids logic and programming?

Why not (S (Expressions)), why not concatinative programming, why not a simple rewriting system? I feel like the method we have made for teaching kids CompSCI is fundamentally flawed as we are trying to teach kids programming and not logic that its built apon

Desde @articaonline reseñan “Inteligencia artificial: jugar o romper la baraja”, de Marga Padilla

El libro propone una tercera vía: hackear la IA desde adentro. Rechaza tanto el hype catastrofista como la negación del problema. Lo que importa no es la máquina aislada sino su ensamblaje con relaciones de poder. Y el error "técnico" siempre lo pagan quienes menos poder tienen.

🔗 articaonline.com/2026/02/resen…

¿Cómo construimos una relación hacker con la IA desde nuestros movimientos y comunidades?

Reseña de “Inteligencia artificial: jugar o romper la baraja”, de Margarita Padilla

Hace poco terminamos de leer el nuevo libro de Margarita Padilla, Inteligencia artificial: jugar o romper la baraja, publicado por la editorial Traficantes de Sueños en octubre de 2025.

^{Ártica - Centro Cultural Online}

A few Dash to Dock tweaks can quietly make your GNOME desktop feel just right.

itsfoss.com/dash-to-dock-tips/

Exploring Dash to Dock: (Probably) The Most Downloaded GNOME Extension

Considering the vast configuration options it offers, you can guess why so many Linux users prefer Dash to Dock over others.

^{Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)}

4 years ago, I spent a weekend putting together a little slideshow program, and have since given every single presentation in it. The idea was that I wanted a slideshow format that was textual so that I could version it, and that I could write the speaker's notes in that same source.

I occasionally found little optimizations so that images are drawn faster, but otherwise, it's essentially the same.

wiki.xxiivv.com/site/adelie

Open source graphics drivers Mesa 26.0.1 released with various bug fixes and a security fix gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/open…

#Mesa #Linux #OpenSource #Drivers #LinuxGaming

Open source graphics drivers Mesa 26.0.1 released with various bug fixes and a security fix

Developer Eric Engestrom announced the Mesa 26.0.1 update for open source graphics drivers, the first set of bug-fixes for the latest release.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}