Plans for Blog in 2025
It’s probably the worst time to do technical blogging 1. Cloudflare shows some visitors on this website, but (as a proponent of Dead Internet Theory) I think it’s all bots, probably just AI scraping data for food 2. Actually, traffic on the empty .ai domain (it has a single “Coming Soon” page) that I registered this year, and that has zero links on the internet, have only about two times fewer visitors than this blog 🤷
Nevertheless, I plan to continue.
In the new year I will probably write less “educational longreads” (they are increadibly time and effort consuming, but not rewarding at all) and do more posts about professional life (like the Rant About Tech Hiring in 2024 ) and philosophy of programming (like The First Law of Computer Graphics).
Linux Distro Hopping
I have to make an embarrassing confession. Most of my Linux life I spent on Ubuntu. The exceptions are my very first Linux distro that I was using in the high school (it was Mandrake!) and, recently, several Red Hat derivatives like CentOS / Rocky LInux / Alma Linux that I have to deal with at work 3.
In the new year I plan to change this and challenge myself to try a new Linux distro every two months. Why not every month? Well, first I think one month is not enough to dig deep into a new ecosystem and make a qualified opinion. Second, I simply don’t have enough distros in my mind that I’m interested in. I don’t think that various derivatives of Ubuntu or Red Hat are that much different, and don’t like to spend time on something like Pop!_OS or Mint. And third, perhaps the most important, I have plenty of other things to do in my life, aside from this little challenge.
I will publish the results of the challenge, but not sure if I will publish them as it goes, every two months or keep everything till the end of the year and publish everything at once.
I don’t have an exact list of distors in my mind (except for some “must haves” and “would be cool”) and will decide each next distro based on my mood at the moment.
At least the first one in the row is … openSUSE Tumbleweed. Actually I’m already making this post from it! 😄
Otherwise, business as usual. Happy new 2025! 🎄🎅