Where I've Been

So it's been awhile since I made a new post and there's a good reason for that. Basically I was stressed out way more than I've ever been and it took me awhile to even recognize it.

When I finally did, I had to get something off my plate and fast. Unfortunately the only things that could go was my Open Source which included live streaming it on Twitch.

I didn't bother posting anything, which I'm sorry for, because I literally just had to get away immediately. I didn't know how long I would be staying away, and didn't want to try and guess either. So no announcement ever happened.

It has been nearly two months since then and I've started to dip my toes back in a bit. I'm around maybe 50% of what my Open Source time was before I took a break, but I'm not sure when the other 50% is coming back.

In this time I did manage to finish off a project for one of my clients which is great because that project was a huge source of stress. The TL;DR is that I was reverse engineering something and had no idea on a time line, but I managed to hit a breakthrough that allowed me to finish the project with just a few more hours of work.

Another one of my clients has a deadline this week which I'm struggling to get finished, but that should eliminate a bunch more stress as well when that one is completed.

So basically, I'm trying to keep things going with Pidgin albeit at a slower pace than I was before. I'm hoping to get back to the previous pace but it's going to be a bit before that happens.

In the mean time we released GPlugin 0.41.0 last week and reworked the way docs.imfreedom.org gets built so it takes minutes less to build. As always, we've got more brewing so keep an eye out!

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