Erlend Sogge Heggen’s blog

Optimising for communication efficiency, to a fault

We recently had one of our customers and community members post the following:

The good thing i like here about the @team is how quick and responsive you guys are and the community to new ideas and suggestions. In…

Business makes better open source

Preamble: I worked at Discourse for 4 years, ultimately as VP of Community. I left amicably earlier…

What you (don’t) get from an open source project

Is high bandwidth required to read a Discourse forum?

I’ve been seeing a lot of FUD being spread recently when it comes to JavaScript-heavy applications that require a ~500kb script download (conservative estimate) to run the web app.

Unity 5 is free — is jMonkeyEngine still relevant?

Open Source as a Force For Good

..and the open source nazi problem.