My journey
I always wondered how it would feel being a GitHub alumni. What would be different? What would catch my eye? Well, now that I am not at GitHub for about 16 days, here’s what I have noticed. Notifications My GitHub and Slack notifications are almost zero now! That’s both good but also weird. Everything is … Continue reading First impressions after leaving GitHub
When I started working at GitHub back in 2010, I moved away from a 12 year career in programming. I was going into technical support. I was the second support person at GitHub, and the first outside of the US. It wasn’t your typical support position. I was helping programmers and other GitHub users with … Continue reading The cycles of my professional life
A dead tree in the Spring.
A couple of weeks ago I found In the End. The last album by The Cranberries. It’s an album recorded after the death of Dolores. It’s also the last album of the band. They have decided not to find a new lead singer. I got emotional for many reasons. One of them, the fact that … Continue reading In the end
As I grow older, I catch myself feeling more indifferent about the religious side of Greek Easter. I am not sure why. In any case, here’s a nice picture of Mountain Olympus. The mountain of the Greek Gods. I took that during this year’s Greek Easter day feast. You know, the day (Sunday) you break … Continue reading Greek Easter 2019
The Amiga was so far ahead of its time that almost nobody — including Commodore’s marketing department — could fully articulate what it was all about. Today, it’s obvious the Amiga was the first multimedia computer, but in those days it was derided as a game machine because few people grasped the importance of advanced graphics, sound, and video. Nine years later, vendors are still struggling to make systems that work like 1985 Amigas.
— Byte Magazine, August 1994
It’s hilarious… 🙂 via Auto Tuning on Vimeo. Auto Tuning from Casey Donahue on Vimeo.
I want this! http://www.apple.com/macbookair/
There comes a day when you can no longer think, write code or stay awake. What do you do? Silly things:
Today we were going on vacation but we canceled the trip because of the heavy rain. We are waiting until the rain stops and watching weather reports to see when this will happen. You can go to my flickr page and see what we are missing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrosamiridis
