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Hyvää joulua / Merry Christmas to all Geminauts who celebrate it! Happy Thursday to all who don't.
I'm almost constantly tired these days. :( Between all the administrative/bureaucratic stuff associated with starting life in a new country, getting up to speed at a new job, hunting down used furniture and appliances for a new home, making sure to be at said new home (where we don't actually live yet on account of the lack of furniture and appliances) to receive deliveries, and taking language classes in the evenings, all with additional layers of friction and last-minute changes due to pandemic-related measures, I have almost no energy in my spare time for anything active. I feel bad that I am knowingly ignoring important issues on the Gemini mailing list, ignoring bug reports and pull requests from people who have kindly donated effort to my software projects, ignoring thoughtful emails from people about stuff I care about (my new offline-first email workflow makes it incredibly easy to just not even *get* new mail for a while if I don't have the headspace - which actually I think is a plus). I feel bad on a meta-level that I've let my online life turn into a bunch of responsibilities and obligations that I need to keep up with, instead of something I do for fun or to relax. I am looking forward to vacation time starting next week, so I can slowly get back on top of things, and even more so to making big changes in 2021, to spend a whole lot less time and energy online.
Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää, Suomi!
Poking around GUS last night looking for interesting new Gemini content, I was astonished to stumble upon this post from late last month:
"Gemini, the stronger twin", at Sensor Station
As a design studio, we have built our careers around the Web, or rather, the Web has built our careers around it. We have designed and built countless web apps, e-commerce, and static sites. We have depended on the Web for over a decade to showcase our work and get new work, and now we're giving it all up.
The simplicity and elegance of Gemini is refreshing. It's so refreshing, in fact, that it was the straw that broke the camel's back and influenced us to reinvent ourselves, our work, and our careers. That is quite an accomplishment for a little-known internet protocol. Producing content exclusively for Gemini will be our focus for the forseeable future.
Wow! I never imagined that the Gemini philosophy would resonate quite so hard with so many people. It's incredible that people are throwing themselves this hard into this small, brave, new world. Incredible, gratifying, inspiring, and just a tiny bit frightening.