I’ve got a painting from a Cuban artist. There are two types of buildings, the bending ones and the rigid lines. The bendy ones are the locals, with their paladares (rental rooms). The museum has straight lines, run by the state, flush with money. 

The black cats are the police, watching over everything and everyone.

As I’ve been working on ExtraStatic, I’ve noticed there are two types of software. The stuff I’m writing is innovative and often broken. The stuff I use that is open source is generally very stable and only breaks when I misconfigure it (gitlab, minio, for example).

I’m going to embrace this fact and recognize my stuff will always be a bit early and a bit more broken. As such, I’m going to be much more careful about upgrading gitlab frequently. I’ll do that when a patch is needed. But the other stuff will be upgraded often but there will be a reliable version you can use, and an  alternative version you can use when you want to be bleeding edge.

There are no black cats in this picture. I’m using entirely open source components, none of which is hosted on Google, Amazon, or Microsoft (i use digital ocean). Most writers on ExtraStatic are going to be paying writers so their data will never be a target for revenue generation