Author
Lincoln Russell 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? Or linking webs of ideas. (He has a penchant for overthinking things and offering parenthetical bonus thoughts. #iykyk)
Contact
- Mastodon:
linc @ phpc.social - LinkedIn:
lincolnwebs - Codeberg:
linc - Email:
blog @ lincolnwebs.com - Signal:
lincolnwebs.22
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)