This is a technical detail heavy expanded talk for the London Perl Workshop: https://www.londonperlworkshop.com/ on the 29th November. But do come to the talk itself. I may have a new clown routine to try out too.
cclite-lpw
Computing for Social Change
This is a technical detail heavy expanded talk for the London Perl Workshop: https://www.londonperlworkshop.com/ on the 29th November. But do come to the talk itself. I may have a new clown routine to try out too.
cclite-lpw
Here are the slides for this as a pdf:
Here’s the German translation as draft. It’s been checked by my school (and life long) friend Dr Dennis Miller. However the table of contents probably needs work and it’s not paginated. This will do for the moment, however.
Here’s the Direct PDF URL too!
DerAlgorithmischeAnarchist
Here’s the French language version.
https://hughbarnard.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/aa-draft1-a5-fr.pdf
Here’s a set of slightly messy slides on open source alternatives to proprietary software, some of the barriers to adoption, and some tactics to overcome the barriers. It’s a bit of a work in progress but hopefully useful to some people ‘as is’.
Here’s the link to the presentation: https://hughbarnard.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/switching-to-opensource.pdf
Printed version now available at: Housmans, Kings X and Freedom Bookshop, Whitechapel.
Here’s the epub version: the-algorithmic-anarchist as epub
A friend just said that he could read plain pdf more easily, so here we go: pdf version of the exact same thing
Here’s the cover and back of the printed version, the image is Don Quixote as cyberpunk rendered (ironically, of course) by generative AI:
I found this in a folder on my computer. Enjoy or not.
Apparently some links in Slack didn’t work. So here’s the material again.
and the presentation on money made at LARC:
Thanks to everyone who expressed interest and enjoyed talking to everyone.