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Yesterday, my Jolla returned from a short stint with Jolla care. I unmounted my Palm Pre2 (which I used for the time my Jolla was not available) and began to set up my phone again - apps, Android support, accounts.

One of the apps I needed regurlarly, although I would prefer using something different for messaging, was Whatsapp. My friends are sending me pictures and do some chatting, my basketball team is organizing itself usinga Whatsapp group. I am using Mitakuulu - and indie Whatsapp client available for SailfishOS. There is no official client, of course -same on webOS and FirefoxOS - so my devices of choice are depending on third-party developers to do some magic. Mitakuulu is very well integrated with SailfishOS, so I never opted in using the Android client.

I am using Linux as a desktop system for quite some time now. Starting with a distribution of SuSE dual-booting on my Windows 95 gaming machine some years past, it eventually became my main system, although I also had short stints with Windows 2000, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 (which I think is a really good operating system).

Evolution

I prefer Evolution as client for my mails, addressbooks and calendars; although I tried other clients - claws, Thunderbird, geary, mutt - I always move back to Evolution. Switching was a matter of functionality most of the times. The look and feel of Evolution was always great for my personal taste, but when I changed from local calendars and addressbooks to online services or from POP3 to IMAP, evolution fell short of other clients. Everything was implemented rather fast, but sometimes, things just did not work properly. Calendars would not sync, buttons in Evolution just did nothing or at least not what they said.

Some years ago, I found it was fun creating software. I do not know if I am or have been particularly good at doing so, but it was fun nevertheless.

the excitement about doing something new

Through the years, it continued to be fun - a continuing journey to new languages, frameworks and exciting technologies overall. By the time something grew boring, you could move on and promote something new, whether it would be a new framework, application server or database. You can do that when working on short-term projects at a small and flexible employer.

A year ago, I migrated my blog from wordpress to static assets created with harpjs. It was fun and I learned a lot by using technology like LESS and jade which I had not gotten into before.

I ran the blog using harp as application server using pm2 for service and cluster management at first, so publishing was as easy as writing on my laptop, checking into source control and updating the “working copy” on the server. I had some problems with that as my server got unresponsive for other services I run there and it was rather obvious that node (or better stated pm2) ate a lot of cpu. After trying to work around that issue by reducing other services cpu- and memory-usage (I switched my web server from apache to lighttpd and eventually nginx in those attempts) I decided to compile my blog with harp and server static assets only.

Last week RTJolla, one of my main sources for information about Jolla on twitter has died - probably not forever, but maybe for a longer period of time.

I am not big fan of creating listings and searches on twitter, I just want to read my timeline, so I created a twitter to account to jump in until RTJolla returns. This bot has been created for my personal usage will retweet everything it finds about Jolla and SailfishOS - the operating system powering the Jolla smartphone.