At linux.conf.au the other week, a friend asked if I’d ever considered a career writing a web comic. I forget exactly how it came up, but it might have had something to do with the STONTIH Deathmatch t-shirt I was wearing at the time, or may have been due to someone mentioning the talk Florian Haas and I gave at LCA 2011 with the live cartooning.

Anyway, the answer was “no, not really”, largely because I sincerely enjoy my gig at SUSE (we’re hiring ATM, BTW), but also partly because I honestly don’t come up with enough interesting stuff often enough, and consider it unlikely I’ll ever make a living off it. Still, I have put a handful of bits and pieces up on Redbubble over the last few years, so I thought I’d engage in a bit of narcissism and promote it shamelessly and obviously. In chronological order then, from oldest to newest, I have produced:

• The Cautious Optimism Death Spiral (from my Brief Study in Software Engineering)
• The STONITH Deathmatch t-shirt (from STONITH Deathmatch Explained)
• I just wish I could say I actually understood how all this crap works (after we resolved a peculiarly complicated merge conflict in a git repository – don’t ask)
• Footprints in the Sand (a kinda subtle piratical design)
• Beware the #lca2013 Ducks with Frickin’ Lasers (resulting from a discussion on Twitter)
• The Cephbot and Replomat (from a talk on Ceph Florian and I gave at LCA in 2013)
• A completely unofficial Pirate Party Australia t-shirt design (all proceeds from this will be donated to Pirate Party Australia)
• The Rat Hole Project photo (don’t buy this unless you want to be part of a conceptual art project that involves throwing money away – if you actually want the photo, just download it under CC-BY-SA)
• Meme Abuse is Damaging My Calm (after seeing one too many “Keep Calm” t-shirt variants at Salamanca market one weekend)