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.
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.
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.
is admitting you have a problem; so with that in mind:
Hi. My name’s Jeff, I maintain several OSS projects you may be familiar with1, and I’m burned out.
I lie awake at night, unable to sleep, crippled by guilt. During the day, it’s anxiety and fear that cripple instead, making the thought of facing the issue tracker unbearable.
Development on my projects has slowed far more than I ever intended, and while I have excuses2, push has clearly come to shove. Something must change.
Some quick updates on my personal status and whereabouts for Q1 2019!
It took (much) longer than anticipated, for a number of reasons, and like any good .0 release it’ll take a few minor releases to really get up to speed – but it’s here! Fabric 2.0.0 is now out on PyPI, along with the project that does much of the heavy lifting, Invoke 1.0.0.
Please see the upgrade documentation for the gory details, and if you like, read on for some non-instructive reflection on the occasion.