Notes In The Margin

First, a sad note: Craig, who got us on this Rush-of-the-week path a few months ago, passed away last week, taken far too young by cancer. Tell your friends you love them, and don’t postpone jo...

https://drbacchus.com/feedback-rush-week-9/

Last week I went to Hanoi for FOSSAsia 2024. This is an event that I’ve been attending for nearly 10 years, but this is the first time it’s been in Hanoi, and my very first trip to Vietnam. H...

https://drbacchus.com/fossasia-2024-in-review/

Home Again 2024/04/09, Hanoi, remembering Beaver Place Road “If you lived here you’d be home now”, the sign read. But I did, and I wasn’t, for all those years. Temporary storage for my th...

https://drbacchus.com/home-again-2/

This is useful supplementary information about my FOSSAsia talk, Raising the Bar on your Conference Presentations, linked from my slides: Session Details – (On FOSSAsia website) Slides – (On...

https://drbacchus.com/raising-the-bar-on-your-conference-presentation/

In the past few days, I’ve been in conversations in two different open source communities around the question: Who are the active maintainers? There’s a variety of reasons to ask this questio...

https://drbacchus.com/who-are-the-active-maintainers/

2112 is this week’s (well, actually last week’s, but I’ve been traveling) Rush album. This one, too, I originally had only on bootleg cassettes from a friend far away, mixed in with some ot...

https://drbacchus.com/2112-rush-week-9/

Today a colleague encouraged us to visit the wall gallery and I’m very glad I went. Photos

https://drbacchus.com/berlin-wall/

What I discovered, listening to the album Rush, the first album from the band Rush, is that, other than Working Man, I’m almost completely unfamiliar with this album. That is, I’ve heard all ...

https://drbacchus.com/rush-rush-week-8/

There’s several tracks I still don’t care for. Animate is  … annoying. The “let’s find as many things that rhyme as possible” thing just doesn’t work for me. But Cold Fire is wonde...

https://drbacchus.com/counterparts-rush-week-7/

I’m not going to do the track by track, because Craig already did that. This record has a lot of good stuff on it, but far and away the best two are Losing It, and Subdivisions. The fact that N...

https://drbacchus.com/signals-rush-week-6/