Author
Lincoln Russell (Mastodon, LinkedIn) is a seasoned Web engineering & product executive armed with a liberal arts degree, 20 years of building software & organizing communities, and a deep love of hypermedia.
Linc is a martial artist living in a historic Detroit home with his husband. He makes Nitro Porter & Agorakit, manages Icrontic, and maintains NewBuddhist.
Why “lincolnwebs”? Like Lincoln Logs, but he builds with the Web, get it?
Guides
- Advanced PHP application development on a MacOS localhost for mere mortals (since 2020)
- Evaluating software engineers (since 2023)
- “AI” vs the Web (2025)
Presentations
- Ethically using student engagement data in WordPress (WPCampus conference, 2024)
- When Open Source Community Software is Bought by Private Equity (Community Signal podcast, 2024)
- Getting Into Detroit (Ignite: Detroit conference, 2012)
- Building a Community Around Your Content (WordCamp Detroit conference, 2012)
Posts by Topic
- Business
- Community
- Governance
- Leadership
- Marital Arts
- My Story
- Process
- Product Management
- Strategy
- Technology
- Web
Email: blog @ lincolnwebs.com