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Open Source: The peaceful revolution
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has gone from being a futurist movement to a fundamental part of business and technology. Unix-like operating systems such as Linux are installed on…
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A matter of privacy and security
Google provides free services in exchange for access to our data, which it uses for ads that fund the service. Over the years since that model was implemented we’ve seen…
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Tales from the road less travelled
Designing a games production company that can generate revenue via open source has been challenging. I’ve come across companies in my research that generate revenue from Free and Open Source…
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Commercialising a hobby
The time has come for me to start a company. There’s a few reasons for this, but the main one is that if I don’t a lifetime of work will…
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Balancing compliance, ethics and value in digital
Complex ideas are a bit like the ABOVE island resort — a series of smaller nodes branching off the main node. Since 1999 we’ve experienced a tech revolution in business, government and wider…
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Windows 10 Review (2018)
We’ve gone from Windows 95’s “Where would you like to go today?” to “HAHA ARSEHOLE — I will ruin your day!” Fuck. That is a good word to describe this operating system and…
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Set Raytracers to Maximum
So I was casually watching a Youtube video about dogfighting in space. They made a great point that guns on fighters should be close instead of far apart — this is something…
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How deep is the river if you cannot see the bottom?
Upgrading your computer isn’t too hard — you work out where you can get good gains or if the whole setup needs a replacement. Unfortunately the latter option isn’t available for the…
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Creating good tools for a brave new world
I’m building a 2D/3D hybrid graphic design tool called Manifold. In this article I’m going to discuss the approach I’m taking in order to fit it into the workflow that…
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My angel is the manifold
Naming is the most important decision in a new open source project. It needs to convey a meaning, be ubiquitous, unique, low GI, etc. I’m coming up to the 5th…
About Me
Welcome to my blog! I’m Paul, a creative technologist based in Perth, Western Australia. I dabble in a range of things from animation to web dev to 3D shaders. I like to use open source technology and giving back to that community.