I am a software developer, a grumpy one with a lot of strong opinions. I frequently get frustrated with the state of things and start pulling my hair. For the sake of my sanity (and remaining hair on my head) a colleague suggested that I need some outlet to blow off steam. They mentioned that I should just write down my concerns. So, I am taking their advice and would try to write down (rant about) stuff. Since I am doing this anyway, I thought I might as well make it public.

I am assuming the topics are gonna be all over the place. Some of the things you might see are gonna be about ownership, monopolies/duopolies, sneaky policies, security, privacy, work-place & personal life related frustration, including my kids school related stuff etc. In short, I do not really know what I am gonna write about. That’s why I also want to avoid sharing my name here. I do not believe that it’s gonna be hard to find who I am. If you do I request you to keep it to yourself.

Support

If you wanna support me, you can do it by supporting some of the projects that helps keep me and the world from loosing sanity. Some of these are:

• Wikimedia Foundation
• EFF
• Internet Archive
• Free Software Foundation
• Signal
• F-droid
• TorProject
• ACLU
• Mozilla Foundation
• Apache Software Foundation
• your local library
• your local community centers
• your local news paper (they are lot better than national) … there are many more, just pick one you relate to, or one whose product you are directly using. I’d say maintain a list of all the open source product you use and try to support them anyway possible.

No-one is sponsoring this and I am not affiliated with any of the companies listed here. I just appreciate their work.

Contact:

Email: rantsblog at pm dot me (expect extremely slow or no response)