Almost a week ago, on a snowy night of January 3, I hung up my Debian Developer hat, and sent my retirement letter in. This has been a long time coming, and I contemplated doing this many times over the past year or two, but never got the courage and the willpower to retire. It wasn't easy. Debian has been part of my life for the past two decades, and I've been a developer for about eighteen years. I considered - and to some extent, still do - Debian my second family. There have been times wh...