Journal

Another Year, Another FOSDEM FOSDEM—the annual pilgrimage to Brussels for a weekend of open-source brilliance, hallway track magic, and the inevitable sleep deprivation. This year’s Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting was, as always, a whirlwind of ideas, people, and tech so bleeding-edge it practically needed bandages. But for me? It was all about seeing friends. Catching up, syncing, and squeezing in as many conversations as humanly possible. As we always say—the hallway track is the real conference. I’m beyond grateful for the people I managed to see, and equally bummed about those I missed. But with a toddler waiting at home, even carving out this limited time was a logistical miracle. ...

tl;dr After a considerable amount of break (like that I’ve ever blogged regularly), I’m going to try blogging (again). So stay tuned! At the beginning of the last year (2019), I promised myself that I would contribute more to the Free and Open source software world, in any form or shape (like start a blog perhaps). To do that, and of course, for my mundane needs as well, I started working on a small project called drone-cache. While I was working on that project, I also wanted to give a try to my long awaiting hobby-to-be blogging. So I managed to write my first ever blog post, where I told the story of how I built the drone-cache. ...