OLF 2024
I’m a little late with this, but I was able to attend OLF 2024 this year in Columbus, Ohio. As usual, it was a great event with some very interesting talks. My three favorites were “Keynote – Lessons Learned from Reporting 100+ FOSS Bugs”, “Embracing Patterns: Automation by Design”, and “Loving the Leap: From Engineering to Management”. I also really enjoyed the hallway track and getting a chance to chat with other Linux users. The only thing that was disappointing is the realization that this wonderful conference seems to be getting smaller each year. I figure part of that is still fallout from the pandemic in 2020, and part of that is the realization that Linux has “won” and has become a “boring” technology.
RSS Feeds
As we approach the end of the year and I start looking at performing an annual review, one of the areas I want to look at is my use of RSS. Over the years I have subscribed to numerous source and aggregate feeds, which is kind of like drinking from a firehose. In the past when I was curating a link blog I think this made more sense, but now I find myself having to process hundreds of articles that I have no interest in reading but still show up in my feed. I think this winter I will be making a concerted effort to greatly pair down the number of feeds I’m watching, with an eye toward finding some good curators and taste makers to follow. This should help free up some additional time for other pursuits instead of using it to process RSS items that I’m not interested in.
Meta
For the last iteration of my blog, I made it a point to write something every week. While forcing myself to keep a consistent schedule was good, there were many times where what I wrote wasn’t at all interesting because I didn’t do anything interesting during that week. This time around I will only write a weekly journal entry for the weeks where I have something to write about. The new trick will be trying to make time to do something interesting each week so I can maintain a consistent writing schedule.
