I began working from home in 1993, from Italy, for a California company. Other remote experiences have included working in San Jose for Ericsson (HQ in Sweden), and working for AWS (HQ in Seattle) from my home in San Jose, and now from Australia. In some ways, I wish I had spent more of my … Continue reading Remote work, in good times and in bad
Marketing Open Source (builders’ session), re:Invent, December 2019 Marketing Your Open Source Project, OSCON, July 2019 – slides Marketing Your Open Source Project, AWS Summit Milan, March 2019 Marketing Your Open Source Project, AWS Summit Berlin, February 2019 Marketing Your Open Source Project, All Things Open, October 2018 My Career Evolution from Tech Writer to… … Continue reading Talks & Interviews
January After a very busy December 2018, traveling and then moving house, we spent the first weeks of January in a state of collapse. The California winter rain was heavier than usual so the weather was dank and depressing, but we had plenty to do indoors, unpacking and setting up our new home. I went … Continue reading 2019 in Review
Although much of my life has been lived in urban environments, I have a lifelong (if often frustrated) love of growing things. I’m not sure exactly how that came about. The time I remember most in my early childhood was spent in Bangkok, even then a large and very urban city. But it was also … Continue reading A Lifetime of Gardening
January After a lot of travel in the autumn of 2017, we spent a quiet winter break at home, with a week of being full-time parents while Mitchell’s mother had a well-deserved vacation of her own. Mitchell and I went on a day trip to San Francisco, where he experienced “snow” for the first time … Continue reading 2018, a Retrospective in Pictures
