Hello! Apologies for the radio silence. It’s been a strange, uh (sweats, checks date of previous blog post) 14 months! I have updates regarding my employment status and OSS releases. Plus! Extremely mediocre section-title wordplay.

Bought some fancy dice on a whim recently, and wanted to share the photos / descriptions. Figured this would work marginally better as a blog post instead of Mastodon posts.

Don’t let the title scare you; I’m not going anywhere in particular. But the last ~year has seen a couple of big changes that I wanted to briefly share.

I’ve been looking to upgrade my old, boring internal-combustion car to a fancy, shiny battery-electric vehicle for about a year. The other day, I finally got to test drive one - a Polestar 2. It was great! And I ended up putting a deposit down the very next day.

After many years of procrastination, I finally got off my duff and set up Let’s Encrypt for my domain – with my OSS domains soon to follow (though those already had SSL for all but the apex domain bounces, courtesy of Read the Docs).

You should now be seeing https URLs for all pages on this site, and be redirected to https if you access the http versions.

I finally got my bank, Stripe, and Github to play nice together, so I’m now on Github Sponsors. Added it to the relevant section of my projects page too.

No tiers or goals or anything like that - I’m sure the more entrepreneurial users appreciate those features but I’m #blessed with a well-paying job that gives me some OSS time, so sponsorship/etc is largely about beer money or one-time “you fix my bug, I give you cold hard cash” agreements.

I’ve turned off Disqus comments on this site. There’s not usually enough feedback to be worth the extra page/cognitive load. My inbox is always open!

Just a quick note that there is now a roadmap section on my projects page. I’ll be linking to this from the project websites ASAP.

My hope is that this goes a small way towards addressing the thing where my reduced cadence makes it look like projects are “dead” when they’re actually just sleeping (cue Monty Python parrot reference here).

If you haven’t heard by now, the Freenode IRC network is under new, bad, management. I’m locking my channels there and will be registering my project names over on Libera.Chat.

Long story short: I’m finally starting to drop Python 2 (and a few slightly older Python 3s) from my projects, in a phased manner. Background and details follow.