Empathy, Friendship and Common Sense
2009 was a very complicated year in my life. A lot of people know that. But almost nobody knows the story of everything I went through that year. Context I… Read more »
Author Archives: fmneto
The year I turned 40
Every time I sit down to write these “year review” posts, I find myself trying to remember everything that happened in the past year. But, as much as I try,… Read more »
Pending subject
There are several subjects that have been floating around in my head, abouth which I’d like to write here. But one thing that I have realized the last times I… Read more »
Going backwards to move forward
Some time ago I posted here how were my plans for the future. Back then I was still undecided about what do do; I had just become very disappointed with… Read more »
Closing Time and Relativity
Almost three months ago, last time I posted anything here, I talked about writing about music. And when I published that, I was thinking specifically of the playlist I shared… Read more »
In search of material
This is going to be a short post. Yesterday, as I was fixing up the apartment a bit, I set a playlist to play on Spotify (as I usually do)…. Read more »
Moving on with the Debian RC Tracker Bot
The Debian RC Tracker, my little bot that tracks the number of RC Bugs in the Debian Testing distribution, has been up and running since August. While it has been… Read more »
Adiós, 2020
And here we go, into the most predictable post in this blog: the year review. It’s probably he only constant here that every year I try and do a balance… Read more »
DebConf 20
This is “Achievement Unlocked” for me. I’ve been using Debian for more than 20 years. During that time, I used it more or less, but ever since first coming into… Read more »
Bugs beware! Return of the Debian Tracker
A little more than a year ago, I published a series of posts talking about Debian’s release cycle, which was followed by an exercise in how a small python script… Read more »
A perspective going “back to action”
Well, here we are again, almost a year after last post. It’s about time we talk about perspective again. At this point, it’s almost a personal tradition to occasionally abandon… Read more »
Buster Release: the Plan
Merely two hours after my last post, Niels Thykier sent an email to debian-devel-announce informing us that Buster’s Release is planned for July 6th (less than a month from now)…. Read more »
Buster Release: the Forecast
In my last post about Buster I explained how I devised a little Python script that tracks the number of RC Bugs in Debian’s current Testing distribution as a rudimentary… Read more »
The end of The Big Bang Theory
After twelve years, The Big Bang Theory has come to an end. It has been a journey, like any other, full of highs and lows. The series had its bad… Read more »
Tracking the Debian Release cycle
In my last post I went over how Debian’s release cycle works. In fact, all we can hope for is a planned release date, but even that depends on how… Read more »