Category: Introspection
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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). Poor neighbors, sometimes are forced to cope with my personal musical taste (sorry about the inconvenience). Its name is in portuguese and means “hits deep”…
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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 of the year that ends and talk about what I expect from the year that is beginning. Needless to say, 2020 was a shitty year.…
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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 contact with it, all the Free Software universe has always captivated me. Probably Surely this has to do with the importance that that time (early…
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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 this blog and come back after a long time, with a post that usually begins with me complaining about how I spent way too long…
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A quick update
It has been a long while since I’ve posted anything here. After coming back from Germany things went completely crazy, so I ended up neglecting the blog a bit. It happens every once in a while; looking back through the history of this blog one quickly realizes that, among about a gazillion random notes, there…
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Why I closed down my Facebook
This week I closed down my Facebook account. It was not an easy decision to make. I’d been thinking about it for the last few months, after realizing that the site has become a very different creature than what it was when it all began, over ten years ago. Back then, around 2005, social networks…