There's an audio version of this newsletter featuring an interview with Rachel Black, Technical Evangelist at Lisk.
In this first episode for 2019, Chris covers EU funding for open source, EU cyber security, accessibility, open source controversies and the apocalypse. Interview segment with Rachel Black, Technical Evangelist for Lisk, where we discuss the company and tech evangelism in the blockchain space.
A few EU related items caught my eye this week. Covering election security, or lack thereof, funding for key open source projects and despite investments in London dwindling thanks to Brexit, they are still twice as much as Berlin.
As May's European Parliament elections loom, attention is turning to election hacking, disinformation and, inevitably, Russia. There's no central EU plan for preventing democracy being subverted. Each of the EU's 27 has to simultaneously protect itself
The European Union believes it has a simple way to bolster its digital security: offer lots of cold, hard cash. The European Commission is launching bug bountie...
Paris and Berlin gain ground as investments in London drop amidst 'Brexit-induced uncertainty and alarm'.
An amazing story about technology for people losing their ability to speak, and why you should try using the web with a screen reader for a day.
The long read: Millions are robbed of the power of speech by illness, injury or lifelong conditions. Can the creation of bespoke digital voices transform their ability to communicate?
A sighted user puts himself in the shoes of a non-sighted user. Chris Ashton experiences first-hand difficulties that visually impaired users face and describes what we can do as web developers to help.
The commercial war between major open source vendors and cloud providers has been bubbling for some time, with recent licensing and product announcement news bringing the issue to boiling point.
Midlife is tough: the idealism of youth has faded, as has inevitably some of its fitness and vigor.
AWS adds another product to its wide selection that sounds awfully familiar.
Preparing for the end of the world, at the end of the world.
The long read: How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific
Late last year I wrote a post revisiting Ukraine for The Next Web and received nice gift from some of the interviewees 🇺🇦😄.
