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A personal adventure with hot beverages

My history with coffee

I’ve never been into coffee, every time I’ve tried them as a child or young adult they have been terrible. They have just been bitter and it’s not a taste profile I to this day enjoy at all.

I have, a couple of times encountered coffee that friends have made that actually weren’t that bitter. So my reaction to it has managed to reach the level of “this isn’t terrible”. Not terrible isn’t a great review though, not really something that one gets back to right away.

I find food habits at Free Software events weird

This is a follow-up on: Why I use Free Software, Why I got into Veganism.

Since the Free Software movement in it’s core is an ethical movement, which cares about human rights and humans access and ability to study, share and improve on the software they use. I’m well aware that not everyone in the Free Software community is in it for ethical reasons - but I’m pretty sure that there’s enough of us that care about ethics for this to be important.

Why I got into Veganism

This is a follow-up on: Why I use Free Software. This has been followed up by: I find food habits at Free Software events weird.

People who turn to Veganism can do this for different reasons, some do it for health reasons, others for climate reasons. But in it’s core, the Vegan movement in itself is an ethical movement about saving the animals. The other reasons are more or less side effects.

Why I use Free Software

This has been followed up by: Why I got into Veganism, I find food habits at Free Software events weird.

People in general may have different reasons for choosing to use Free Software, some may use it for the price, others because of pragmatic reasons, simply put it’s the best tool for the job. Others may choose it for ethical reasons.

I didn’t get into Free Software for any of the said reasons above, I got into Free Software because it seemed different and fun. The free price point is what made it possible for me as a teenager to play around with it as I did.

My battle with wrist pains

Note: I’m not a doctor, dietitian or ergonomics expert. I just have spent a lot of time to find something that works well for me. This is my experience and you can probably take inspiration for it, but don’t do stupid things and seek expert advice if you need it.

In parts of the IT industry abbreviations like RSI and CTS gets thrown around fairly often. I’m guilty myself of doing this.

Double stitched Penguin Beanie

This is a quite unusual post for this blog, it’s not what I’ve expected to put on here. But I wanted to share it somewhere more permanent than many other places where I hang out on the internet. So here it goes.

I’ve been knitting for a bunch of years now, and some years ago I was intrigued by a knitting method that is called double knitting. In theory it’s fairly simple because you basically make two knitting’s at the same time in parallel and mirror the pattern.