Hi. I’m Hugo. Growing up, the more I learnt about free software the more it seemed like the obvious way for a society to approach working with technology. I watched Star Trek TNG as a kid and I think that their utopic capitalism-free future has made me too idealistic for the real world. I’ve had to make a living writing code that will never be publicly usable, but fortunately can dedicate myself to open source full time nowadays.
My current focus is working on vdirsyncer, a tool to synchronise calendars and address books (across caldav/carddav/webdav/filesystem). I’m an advocate of interoperable and decoupled software, and this is no exception.
Generally, I try and fix issues upstream when possible rather than have local hacks that fix something for me and leave it broken for everyone else. I often get distracted fixing issues in tools that I use, or with various side-projects. Some of those are quite mature, while others are unlikely to ever reach a working state.
I also maintain a blog and post status updates.