Category: Personal life
-
Why I picked the biggest furry elephant as my microblogging platform (and refuse to self-host a Mastodon server)
This officially announces my migration from Twitter to Mastodon, providing some details on where to find me and what contents to expect from my account on that platform. It also goes into some observations on Mastodon’s societal bubble and the (un)sustainability of most server instances.
-
The post-lockdown work rave, abuse, and shortened fuses
This article is a mix of personal stories, social & interpersonal psychology, and technology (with some drive-by remarks about Free & Open Source software). I originally drafted this article in the fall of 2021 and winter of 2022, but I needed more time to rewrite it a fourth time (because why not). So, while this…
-
Unsettled by Unison’s Fadeaway from Fedora
A story illustrating how fragile user workflows can be, and how some seemingly inconsequential decisions at the distro level can have disastrous consequences on the ability of individuals to continue running your FLOSS platform.
-
Year MMXXI in 8 minutes
Near the end of 2020, I put a lot of thought into reevaluating my business’ value proposition, strategy, and processes. It’s a good thing I did that back then, because 2021 was quite different from 2020; I had much less time to “deepthink”, and I spent a majority of 2021 on an intense work treadmill,…
-
Year MMXX summarized in 7 minutes
For some reason, I didn’t get to see much people, and didn’t have much client work revenue throughout that year. I’m not sure why 🤔 TwentyTwenty was filled with unexpected events, discoveries, and opportunities to think about a lot of things. As nobody needs to read another editorial about the pandemic, I will attempt to…
-
Year MMXIX summarized in 5 minutes
As part of my seven-years retrospective, here’s a 5-6 minutes readable summary of what I did in 2019. Personal life summary Q4 2018’s intense professional stress was replaced by emotional exhaustion in 2019’s Q1 and Q2. Caring for folks who have residual schizophrenia comorbid with depression and high-functioning autism, really is a lot of work…
-
Year MMXVIII summarized in 4 minutes
Was super excited to see a GNOME hackfest focused solely on investigating performance issues in GNOME Shell, and the great work that happened from 2019 to 2021 on that front. It made a huge difference. Was thrilled that Mozilla finally got their sh!t together when it comes to performance in Firefox, with the initial release…
-
Year MMXVII in 1 ⅓ minute
As part of my seven-years retrospective, here’s a high-level overview of what I did in 2017, in roughly 1 minute and 20 seconds: I did a painting featuring Tintin vs Sephiroth. Because I could. It is only in February of that year that I found the time to finally review and sort through over 2750…
-
Year MMXVI in 1 ½ minute
This is part 2 of my seven-years retrospective. It is again kept extremely short and high-level. I took down my online personal Interaction Design portfolio back then, leaving just a summary page. I completed my 2nd term on the board of the GNOME Foundation, and wrote a report summarizing my duties that year.At the end…
-
Year MMXV summarized in 2 ½ minutes
I’m doing a quick retrospective on the last seven years (you’ll see why later). In this first part, here’s a short overview of what I did in 2015 (2 to 3 minutes reading time): In the spring of 2015, I wrote a blog post reporting on my first term (2014-2015) as the president of the…