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Heh - do you have a "blog" (ala jwz's DNA Lounge)? (This is the kind of retiring from IT tale that I love to read and follow the trials and tribulations of ove
by jjkaczor 3mo ago
Heh - do you have a "blog" (ala jwz's DNA Lounge)?
(This is the kind of retiring from IT tale that I love to read and follow the trials and tribulations of over the years - good luck, thanks for open-sourcing your work!)
- Suppafly 3mo agoman I haven't thought of that blog for like 20 years. crazy how many old blogs and web comics that I used to check every day that I've mostly forgotten about.
- jjkaczor 3mo agoI only check 4/day now. For awhile when RSS/Atom was big, I had hundreds - but was inundated with "too much info" and so wouldn't check anything for weeks at a time and then it was a slog - never did get into the Google Reader, was a fan of RSSBandit. My dailies continue to be; Antipope (Charlie Stross), Whatever (John Scalzi), Contrapositive Diary (Jeff Duntemann) and the aforementioned jwz...
- MrBuddyCasino 3mo agoThat one was perhaps more of a cautionary tale, given the economics.
- jjkaczor 3mo agoHeh - that's where I was going with the "tribulations" aspect of my comment - which is why I like to read honest blogs - those dreams of "someday I might do 'X'", only to find someone who has - and then read all the challenges that had/have to be overcome. (which is not to say that hard-work and following a dream/passion-project are not worth doing - it's just nice to have more understanding of the risks/rewards and issues)