Yeah, I burned out from wiki things. I flew too close to the sun, tried to take on too many projects and cool ideas and then crashed and let people down. I'm sorry. I participate in wiki communities because, aside from believing in free knowledge, etc., it's really fun. And…
I am privileged to work for a non-profit organization, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which allows me to work full-time on free and open-source software, namely SecureDrop. It also pays the bills and lets me spend me free time doing other stuff that's good for humanity, like contributing to…
I tend to spend a lot of time reading. When I was a kid it was as many books I could carry home from the library; later it would become newspapers, blogs and online things. I never bothered to track what I was reading, because there was so much of…
The first time I heard the song Welcome to New York, my reaction was something along the lines of "Eh, decent song, except she's wrong. West Coast Best Coast." I would like to formally apologize to Taylor Swift for doubting her and state for the record that she was absolutely…
I set some goals for myself at the beginning of the year. Here's how it went: Move out of my parents' house.✔️ I live in New York City now. This was definitely my biggest goal and accomplishment of the year. Contribute something meaningful to SecureDrop.✔️ I think so. I need…
New year, new job, new goals. In no specific order: Move out of my parents' house. Contribute something meaningful to SecureDrop. Contribute something meaningful to MediaWiki. Not get COVID. Continue contributing to Mailman. Continue working on mwbot-rs, while having fun and learning more Rust. Get more stickers (lack of in-person…
