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Posted on 2022-01-19
I don't usually write status update, even though I like the idea, because I'm most of the time too lazy to do so, but I thought it was a good way to kick off this year with a first post.
I'm still unsure while writing this if I will actually publish it on my blog or on my gemlog. I guess I like the idea of using my blog only for technical posts, so it might end up in my gemlogā¦
Starting with my blog, I published 17 articles last year. I had in mind 1 or 2 posts per month and the average is there. If I look at the details though, I can see I published 16 of them during the 4 first months of the year, and only one in December. It show how difficult it is for me to stay consistent with feeding this blogā¦
I can balance this though with the fact I write on my gemlog too and that it may have impacted my writing on my blog even though the subjects are usually different.
Looking into more details, I published 5 posts about gemini, 5 about my home automation setup and 6 about my self hosted cluster in general (some posts appear in multiple categories).
I can't share any stats because I have none (by choice), so I don't know how many people came here, but I'm guessing that there aren't many (which is perfectly fine too). All I can say is that I received several emails last year regarding my mutli room audio setup with mopidy and snapcastĀ¹, so I'm guessing that the most read one š¤·.
I created this capsule the 10th of Feb 2021, almost a year ago. I wrote my first gemlog entry on the 18th of Feb and wrote in total 12 posts on it in 2021.
Funny to see that my gemlog entries are either for talking about gemini related stuff or for rants :P.
I managed to keep writing on my gemlog in a longer time period as I wrote all 12 entries between February and August.
No published content after that, even though I stayed active with my tiny log a bit more, but apparently I couldn't motivate myself to write anything.
Cumulating both blog and gemlog posts makes a total of 29 postsā¦ which is more than I thought last year when I started writing again, so that's a win for me :).
Of course, a challenge for next year could be to be more consistent during the yearā¦ We'll see :).
Last year, I worked on different projects related to gemini. The main one being GTL (Gemni TinyLog)ā“, a TUI/CLI app to follow geminauts tinylogs easily. I grew fond of the Tinylog idea and even tried to write an RFP for itāµ. Unfortunately it didn't grow in the community and the number of active users in the tinylog space is quite limited, but I still like it so š¤·.
Still related to tinylog, I still run a global tinylog gemini page where you can read all known tinylogs in a global timeline formatā¶.
All my gemini related applications are written in Golang, that was for me the way of learning it for something I thought would be useful (and I use GTL almost daily). So 2 birds, 1 stone as they say. I enjoyed it quite a lot too!
I'm planning to add a few improvement in GTL and then try to find some other useful tool to build for the gemini space. When I see what @Skyjake is doing for the gemini space, I'm very impressed by his work quality (Lagrange is just awesome) and his good ideas like earlier this month with cosmos. That was 1 thing I thought was missing to help people understand better "response posts" between gemlogs!
It does raise other question, like for Antenna, of the centralization in the gemini space, but we need better tool and ways of being a community, so any improvement is the right way!
I've written a lot about home automation early last year and less after. The reason being I wanted to explain at least the big part of my setup. That took quite a few articles but then I didn't make much changes (except keeping the stack up to date and few tweaks). For 2 main reasons: 1/ It works quite well, so Ā« if it ain't broke, don't fix it Ā», and 2/ I didn't spend time adding new automation last year, part because I was lazy, part because I didn't want to "overdo" it for no good reasonsā¦
At this stage, I don't have big changes in mind for my home automation setup, but that's the kind of things that can change quickly to scratch an itch, so we'll see where my mind brings me this year on that topic :).
The pi swarm cluster worked quite well last year, except when the SD card of the manager node diedā· for some reasons and I had to resetup almost everything. The good news about this is that I could reuse my previous blog posts to redeploy everything a lot faster. Proof reading and validating the articles at the same time, so that was great if I keep only the plus side about it.
I do have plans to continue writing about it as I didn't finish explaining the whole thing but these posts are the longest to write and it can be very tough to motivate myselfā¦
I usually set a target of 24 books per year. I don't really care what type of books or their size, so that number is really arbitrary and doesn't mean muchā¦
Also, I didn't make itā¦ I "only" read 20, less than the 23 in 2020 and 22 in 2019ā¦
I "comfort" myself by thinking I've read bigger and more complex book this year (which is true to some extent) but that's not really an excuse. I keep a spreadsheet of my "to read" books and indicate when I read one. I can clearly see that same as for the blog/gem posts, I have a "drop" at the end of the yearā¦
(Of course, I don't count the hundreds of manga I read each year :p)
As written previously in this gemlog, I'm trying to move more of my reading "offline", or at least away from a classic screenĀ². I've been quite happy with my boox Note Air to read ebook and my saved articles via wallabag, both for web and gemini article (thanks so much skyjake for the small feature in Lagrange to retrieve the current open tabĀ³).
I didn't manage to stick to my schedule I describe in that previous gemini post to stop using classic screens at least 1h before bed. But more on this later.
I'm not going to write what I'll do or work on this year, because I know I won't follow it exactly anyway, but I have a few things that are important to me to think/do/work on:
This post is now way longer than anticipated when starting typingā¦ I believe I already most of the people that started reading this, but it was nevertheless a good exercise :).
I don't usually mentioned my "work life", but it would be a lie to say it has no impact on my energy / motivation to work on these personal projectsā¦ I've been in the same company for soon 8 years (my record by far) and I still enjoy it a lot! But as well it is a time consuming job that sometimes require long weeks that leave me with no will to write or code.
I accepted that for some time now, that's why even when I say I want to write X posts or read Y books, I always look at it with relativism :)
Let's hope for a great 2022!
Ā¹: Multi room audio setup (WEB)
Ā²: Changing the way I consume content on the internet
Ā³: Saving gemini content within wallabag