Latest FOSS Academic post is: Oops! All Microslop. Or, Trying to Write with Microsoft.

https://fossacademic.tech/2026/01/06/oops-all-microslop.html

It's a post in which I see what it's like for me to try to create a blank document with York University's Microsoft 365 subscription.

TL;DR version is: it's all about Copilot, and starting a blank Word doc is actually kinda... hard.

The post is a bit long, but it does have a lot of screenshots + a dash of anger.

#FOSSAcademic #Microsoft #generativeAI #YorkUniversity

Latest FOSS Academic post is: Oops! All Microslop. Or, Trying to Write with Microsoft.

https://fossacademic.tech/2026/01/06/oops-all-microslop.html

It's a post in which I see what it's like for me to try to create a blank document with York University's Microsoft 365 subscription.

TL;DR version is: it's all about Copilot, and starting a blank Word doc is actually kinda... hard.

The post is a bit long, but it does have a lot of screenshots + a dash of anger.

#FOSSAcademic #Microsoft #generativeAI #YorkUniversity

Latest FOSS Academic post is -- you guessed it -- a 2025 year in review post. Thrill to the fact that I'm using much of the same FOSS to do my work as I always have! Feel the chills as I talk about #generativeAI and how terrible it is! Above all, join me in living the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream!

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/12/21/year-in-review.html

Replies to this post will appear as comments on the blog thanks to the magic of #ActivityPub!

#FOSSacademic

Latest FOSS Academic post is -- you guessed it -- a 2025 year in review post. Thrill to the fact that I'm using much of the same FOSS to do my work as I always have! Feel the chills as I talk about #generativeAI and how terrible it is! Above all, join me in living the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream!

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/12/21/year-in-review.html

Replies to this post will appear as comments on the blog thanks to the magic of #ActivityPub!

#FOSSacademic

The lastest FOSS Academic post is a whiny, weedy gripe session where I talk about being nervous about installing new Linux distros:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/11/09/contained.html
Basically, between Snaps, Flatpaks, Wayland, and Secure Boot, installing a fresh Linux distro on a machine isn't quite as fun as it used to be. But, what can I do? Switch to Microsoft?

Hell, no!

#fossAcademic #linux #gripes

Latest FOSS Academic is I DID IT! I DID IT! I re-implemented my static blog generator in Python and moved it off #Github onto my own hosting!

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/25/reimplemented.html

What's that? You want an archive and previews of posts? Done. Tags? Handled! Atom feed? Generated. (https://fossacademic.tech/feed.xml)

What about comments, you say?

Respond to this post and they shall appear on my blog, I say unto you.

I did it! Yay!

#FOSSAcademic#Python

Latest FOSS Academic is I DID IT! I DID IT! I re-implemented my static blog generator in Python and moved it off #Github onto my own hosting!

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/25/reimplemented.html

What's that? You want an archive and previews of posts? Done. Tags? Handled! Atom feed? Generated. (https://fossacademic.tech/feed.xml)

What about comments, you say?

Respond to this post and they shall appear on my blog, I say unto you.

I did it! Yay!

#FOSSAcademic#Python

Latest FOSS Academic post is live!

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/19/zotero-zettlr.html

It's a note about the relative strengths and weaknesses of using #Zettlr and #Zotero for note-taking and writing. Spoiler: I thought I would use Zotero less and less, but I find myself using it just as much as I ever have.

[Replies to this will appear as comments on the blog unless you set privacy to Followers-only or DM. CWs will work]

#FOSSAcademic

The latest FOSS Academic post involves more wrestling with the implications of #generativeAI for academic peer review:

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/06/reviewing-ai.html

In this post, I take observations from software #developers and #openSource podcasters (such as the folks at @latenightlinux ) about how genAI is swamping things like bug bounties and code reviews. This is similar to some of the issues faced by academic peer reviewers.

#academicchatter#FOSSacademic

The latest FOSS Academic post involves more wrestling with the implications of #generativeAI for academic peer review:

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/06/reviewing-ai.html

In this post, I take observations from software #developers and #openSource podcasters (such as the folks at @latenightlinux ) about how genAI is swamping things like bug bounties and code reviews. This is similar to some of the issues faced by academic peer reviewers.

#academicchatter#FOSSacademic