Published 2025-11-17
tag(s): #link-post #random-thoughts #programming
Three completely unrelated topics, for a single post.
It's been bothering that my comment
in my fail story
about not having a walk of shame reads like I was a ladies man of some sorts in my youth.
It's been bothering me enough that I want to set the record straight, right here: I don't even
remember having a one night stand. Not something that makes me particularly proud, nor
ashamed. It just is. 🤷
But I did collect mistakes as Pokémon! What I was referring to with those are the long term
relationships that I should have ended way sooner than I did. Or let them die when the other
party gave the chance to do so. Or not even start them, FFS, what was I thinking. Oh
right, I was young :)
But indeed, you never experience a walk of shame when your mistakes live with you. 👀
With that out of the way...
Today Maria and I went to an At Home, and we found these:
Now, won't claim to have the finest taste. I still wear cartoon tshirts to most places. And also, there's nothing wrong with anyone's choices, whatever floats anyone's boat is fine by me. Honest.
But...has anyone ever bought any of these pseudo paintings "unironically"?
Let's take a look at the possibilities:
I don't know. Maybe there's a biker granny somewhere that finds these amazing...
I don't know if my tools site is "done-done". But the thing scratched the itch to write some Common Lisp code for a while, so mission accomplished. That means I have a bit of bandwidth for the next thing.
And all it takes is a bit of inspiration. Wouter of BrainBaking wrote a post about moving his repos to Codeberg. His reminder that we should "Give Up GitHub" and other details from the post left me thinking about this topic...
For starters, all my new code is in Source Hut. Which I like enough, but I have considered
taking advantage of the VPS to use my own self-hosted git as primary, and Source Hut as the
mirror. Reading that post was a nice reminder of that idea.[2]
I like Source Hut now, but we never know what's going to happen in the future.
I've been meaning to ditch GitHub completely, but putting it off for the usual reasons:
For #1, most of those projects receive one pull request (or issue)...per year. Combined
>_>.
I am thinking of "the users", but all these are niche enough repositories (mostly Emacs
packages) that anyone that wants to report a problem is more than capable of shooting me an
email, if it comes to that.
The usual argument of "but then the barrier to entry is too high" has merits, but it's time we
change attitudes about this. Do you care about a project? Then you should care enough to send
an email, or collaborate in a forge that isn't GitHub.
Let's normalize other forges or ways of working, for a healthier ecosystem.
The last point (#2 above) has to do with having an "online portfolio" of sorts, so people can
see my code. I should ask at my current employer if anyone perused my GitHub profile.
In the past, no one had ever seen it. They all relied on my CV and some sort of take home
assignment to evaluate my merits. So it's not a great argument, really.
I dream of a future when searching for my name brings up either of my websites instead of
GitHub and LinkedIn.
Or maybe not, given some of the things I write here >_>
<_<
The git stuff should have been its own post. Who knew I had that much to type about it.
I certainly didn't. Oops.