Massive shoutout for FOSS rebooting my career.

Just put my new site up, and a physical exhibition today, and had my first ‘reboot-shoot’ with a client, all in the space of a week. I’m also sick with flu and toothache and have a very small human living with me. For context. Go me…

I would not have done it without free and open source software.

And I’m fuckin chuffed.

I owe these thanks to projects and people, for giving me hope and capability that I would not have had otherwise:

Privacy advocates on youtube - tipping me over to linux.

Pixls.us - community photography forum for FOSS.

Geeqie - picture sorting, done.

Rawtherapee - Raw processor and way more. Better than Adobe.

GIMP - Too good. My desert island software. Come at me and my clients in the comments if you don’t like the menu structure and default keyboard shortcuts.

Hugo - static site generator, but use a custom theme and then get confused about how it works, learn it properly but then hire a Hugo developer who will be cool, because Hugo is FOSS.

Things are going really well so far. People are booking me/making a plan to book me. I’m working with integrity and have hope that I can take care of my family with this.

Got loads of hope and positivity.

My site is jpicture.net if you want to have a look. Content is going to get updated, soon, but I had to publish it today to coincide with other things (like the exhibition) going on today.

Peace

P.S If anyone has questions, please ask - I’ll reply over the next few days.

PPS my creative stuff is at https://pixelfed.social/Eliptic

  • Wolf314159@startrek.website
    10·
    3 days ago

    Don’t sleep on that toothache if it is due to an infection. Tooth infections can kind of fast track to the sinuses and then the brain and go real bad real quick. Also there’s the pain. I don’t know how you can survive with that pain AND a tiny human. Probably best not to die on them because of a dumb thing like a toothache.

    • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.netOP
      3·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, it has been really tough… I know - finally getting on with sorting it out now and have a long and expensive list from the dentist. Wisdom teeth are a curse!

  • petrescatraian@libranet.de
    6·
    2 days ago

    *sigh* another photographer that I’ll follow /s

    Real talk now, your content is just fantastic! I love your photos. Get well soon and hello from Romania! :)

    • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.netOP
      3·
      2 days ago

      Haha! That’s really kind, thank you so much :) Hello from the UK! You live in a great country by the way - I visited a few years ago and absolutely loved it 👍

      • petrescatraian@libranet.de
        2·
        2 days ago

        Foreigners seem to love it way more than us at times, haha. Thank you as well! Which places did you visit? Out of curiosity 😁

        • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.netOP
          3·
          2 days ago

          Ah I feel the same way about my own country sometimes too! We were mostly hiking in the Carpathians and ended up staying with a family in a village there. Another family took us out for the day to visit a monastery - lots of kindness and fun :)

    • Da Oeuf@slrpnk.netOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      No, I tried both in the beginning and preferred Rawtherapee’s layout. It sounds like Darktable is great too though

  • alecsargent@lemmy.zip
    4·
    3 days ago

    Hugo’s documentation is like “if you know, you know” kind of thing. Once you understand its weird semantics and the templating system(which can be very confusing)you are golden.

    Anyway, glad you joined this FOSS journey.