A quieter place — bayindirh

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2024-12-02 20:30:03

While this blog was silent, my life was buzzing with activity. I have been trying to tend to multiple big projects at work and in my personal life, like a juggler trying not to drop anything.

Not everything went as planned. The blog got sidelined, personal projects lost momentum, and a couple of them are temporarily frozen. On the other hand, I managed to finish a big migration at work. As always, Murphy learned what we were doing and motivated us to finish faster by intervening at the most convenient time with maximum effect (at least from his perspective). A big pile of important things got handled in my personal and work life, keeping me busy or at the edge, or both.

Personally, I managed to get my digital garden to grow, write more Go, and love it in the process. I decluttered my life further in digital and physical realms. Decluttering things take a long time when you're trying to handle decades of clutter collected by a past me who didn't understand the consequences of what he's doing. On the other hand, we didn't have these organizational superpowers back in the day, and I didn't know better, to be honest.

This decluttering process is not limited to my collected cruft. I'm simplifying my digital life and the places I frequent. I'm not using X (formerly Twitter) and not adding new photos to my Instagram account anymore (since I don't want to provide AI training material to Meta, a subject worthy of its separate blog post). Instead, I moved to Mastodon and will use another service to share my photography. Recently, I subscribed to a high-quality local newspaper's digital edition.