Audrey E. @audrey@toot.cat

I spent a little too long browsing vintage sewing supplies on eBay the other week and ended up buying $10 of random snaps and other notions. But the selling point was really these sock patches:

Issue 11 is shipping to subscribers this week, and we have a few extra copies in the shop https://shop.recompilermag.com/products/issue-11-love

The Recompiler hiatus is over! https://recompilermag.com/2020/01/18/the-recompiler-in-2020-and-beyond/

I’ll write up a longer thing for my blog, but this social media vacation has led to:
- finally getting a natural bread starter going again
- learning cribbage
- finishing a bunch of books (have you read The Empowerment Manual? Extremely useful!)
- writing actual letters on paper
- finishing a baby blanket
- eating meals that aren’t toast (but also a lot of toast because I’ve been baking)
- lots of thinking

Hope you’ve all been well and are having a good new year!

I’m trying to find some details on the longest possible shelf life for baking yeast because we have some old packages in the fridge, and this is the kind of experimentation I can get behind https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/29431

The other thing I'm looking for tips on is things to read about distributed systems -- I'm more interested in geographic distribution (maybe CDNs) and definitely want a practical/hands-on approach over theory. but it's a lot to get a handle on, so where might I start?

In my vacation from social media-type things, I've been reading a lot more blogs. Do you have one? Are there any other places you keep tabs on interesting topics?

I'm focusing on catching up with people in person and writing letters (the kind on paper!). If you'd like to correspond, you can use the mailing address for The Recompiler: PO Box 8883, Portland OR 97207

I'm not looking at most social media through the end of the year (I'll check messages here every couple of days), so if you want to see what I'm up to you might like to subscribe to my blog: https://lifeofaudrey.com/notes.html

I’ve been sitting on this essay on open source citizenship for a year because I know there’s more to say, but it’s a start https://lifeofaudrey.com/essays/rethinking_citizenship.html

Do I know anyone who’s planning to be at FOSDEM and/or Copyleft Conf?

Also, in case you are a person who would like to try contributing to a Terraform provider, here's the welcome message I created: https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aws/issues/10308

In an attempt at Hacktoberfest readiness, I added all the maintainer docs I could come up with to a new shiny wiki https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aws/wiki/Maintaining-the-Terraform-AWS-Provider