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
Leaving GitHub has not been an easy decision. I want to create my own calm company, and in the process create a simple customer support tool based on my 9 year experience at GitHub Support.
If you complain for being bothered in Slack or other real time communication tools outside of normal working hours, it’s your fault. When you have a remote, distributed team, you have two approaches before you talk to a colleague. You either have to check their timezone every single time before you ping them to see … Continue reading It’s your fault people bother you
At GitHub, we rely on Issues heavily. Not only for bug reports, or for tracking feature implementation. We use them for almost everything. This includes, but is not limited to, discussions, announcements, ideas, tracking projects, capturing thoughts or pieces of documentation that will become pull requests, and many more. The problem with having an abundance … Continue reading How I avoid zombie GitHub Issues
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
Long support threads can become stale. How can one move them forward after they have been neglected for some time?
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
