Recently, the Codidact team announced that an entirely new Abilities system is in development; this is the system that will allow people to earn new privileges and perform trusted actions within the system. Now that that’s finally been officially announced — instead of just cryptic Tweets — I thought I’d…

“We’re there to help and empower, not to dictate.” I sat down over Discord with Codidact team member and former Stack Exchange contributor Monica Cellio to have a chat about the project and her involvement and goals. …

At a first glance, Harry Potter and Percy Jackson look very similar. They both feature a young (pre-)teenage boy as the protagonist, who discovers he has powers, goes to a special place to train, and then has to team up with a group of friends to fight monsters, rescue friends…

Update June 26, 2020: Codidact now has several sites up and running. You can visit https://codidact.com to get a list of existing communities. “For the community. By the community.” On the surface, these six words — the tagline of the Codidact project — are simple and rather dull. Yet these…

You’ve probably heard the term “Antisemitism” before. It’s been in colloquial usage for over a century at this point, and over that time it has in essence become the “standard” way to refer to anti-Jewish sentiment. Unfortunately, that’s a problem. …

You’ve probably heard of Imgur. The ubiquitous image-sharing platform was founded in 2009 as a way for users to share images on Reddit and other platforms. Since then, it’s swelled in popularity. It’s used to host millions of images across the web. It’s got both Android and iOS apps. It…

Dates are approximate, as a lot of the stuff being referenced here no longer can be found on the internet. I might be shifting things by whole years in my head, but the exact dates aren’t the important bit. This is a tribute to the first internet community I was…

Would you be able to use the internet for three months without a mouse? I did exactly that. Here’s what I learned. Backstory A few months back, my laptop suffered a slight mishap — the cord, which was old and frayed, suddenly sparked, then smoked, and I found myself with a…

Some people don’t think that open source software serves any point. Here, I’m going to try to explain why I think that open source is important. What is open source? Open source is software that anyone can see the entire code for, and can then use that to create their…