My daughter was born, and I did, in fact, manage to do less.

A few months ago, I wrote about doing less, for her. She’s here now, happy and healthy, and this is the short follow-up I promised.

Project diet

A few people reached out about after I asked for help maintaining some of the project, but most of them went unnoticed. It’s fine, sometimes the honest answer is that a project has simply run its course.

So I archived that whole list — plus a few other personal projects I’d quietly stopped touching:

• clone-org
• discord-applemusic-rich-presence
• domain_exporter
• fastcom-exporter
• fork-cleaner
• github_releases_exporter
• go-solarman
• homekit-solarman
• jsonfmt
• noss-2026
• org-stats
• solarman-exporter
• speedtest-exporter
• sshsig
• ssign
• tasktimer
• timer
• version_exporter
• xdg-open-svc

Of course, in this meantime I also created a bunch of other projects, but they are mostly toy projects and/or things I needed. I know, I know, this is mostly how the others started, too. Anyway, still net negative for now.

FWIW, the point of all this isn’t the code; that’s still there, read-only, and always will be. It’s the notifications and mental load. Every archived repository is one less source of pings, and a little more peace of mind. More importantly, one less thing I have to keep in the back of my mind.

If you were relying on one of these, don’t panic. I’m happy to unarchive one and add you as a collaborator if you genuinely want to pick it up — just ping me, since you can’t open an issue on an archived repository anymore.

Life diet

Still a work in progress. Turns out archiving repositories is way easier than doing “real live” changes.

The first real one: I’m stepping down from my role at the Rotary club I’m part of, and will likely leave the club entirely before long.

I also decided to not take out things that I deeply enjoy. I do very few things “just for me”, and I don’t want to stop them.

Being a dad

She’s here! And she’s perfect.

I don’t even remember how my life was before her, its mind blowing, honestly.

Thank you - for the patience, the pull requests, the sponsorships, and the kind words. 🩷