Illustration - Simon Griffee

I’ve recently been discussing the idea of a basic income for all human beings with a skeptical friend. I tell him that just because something hasn’t worked (or been tried) before doesn’t mean it can’t work. That’s how new ideas and paradigm shifts happen.

A few answers to some of the most frequently asked questions:

Upcoming Basic Income experiments in:

For more see BasicIncome.org and Scott Santen’s blog.

Primo Levi Poster

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”

—Primo Levi

Creating a Personal Website Using GitHub Pages

An octocat on a paper bag, colored pencil on brown paper bag.

The GitHub mascot is known as an 'octocat' — a cross between two very intelligent animals. I drew the one above for you, dear reader.

Summary: A brief overview of Git and GitHub followed by pointers to instructions on creating your own personal website hosted at yourusername.github.io for free.

Git & GitHub

Git is software for version control of files to help a person or a group of people do, publish and keep track of their work.¹ One of the best things about Git is that it is free, open source software. This means that it will always be available regardless of whether a company still exists.

GitHub is a website that provides a good user interface for Git software. It is used by companies like Google — https://github.com/google — Facebook — https://github.com/facebook — and Apple — https://github.com/apple. One of the people² who created GitHub wrote a parable that helps us see how it works. One of, if not the best, thing about GitHub is it makes it easy for anybody to use Git!

You can easily create a website for free using GitHub and work on it alone or with other people (who have your permission), and publish it on yourusername.github.io or download it to your own computer or transfer it to other servers for editing, publishing or backup.³

Publishing Your Website With GitHub for Free

Go to https://github.com/join and create an account. Make note of the username you choose.
Follow the instructions here: https://guides.github.com/features/pages/ — once you are finished, your website will be visible at yourusername.github.io

Coming up next (you can sign up to my mailing list to receive posts by mail):

Adding more pages to your site.
Changing the look of your site.
Working on your own computer and synchronizing your work with your GitHub repository which then updates your website automatically.
Registering your own customdomainname.com and pointing it to your GitHub pages site.

Git was written by Linus Torvalds who also wrote the Linux operating system. ↩︎
Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, and now, you! ↩︎
Most of GitHub’s software is open source, too, but if you ever want to use another system (such as GitLab) you are free to take your work with you at any time. ↩︎

About This Particular Macintosh Illustrations

ATPM needs cover art for every monthly issue of their magazine. I contributed artwork and also redesigned the ATPM website with modern web standards-based HTML and CSS.

The ATPM cover depicts the word 'Macintosh' in red, blue, and yellow bold letters emerging from a tangle of grey lines.