diff --git a/content/english/news/winding-down.md b/content/english/news/winding-down.md index fd12646..4ed3d62 100644 --- a/content/english/news/winding-down.md +++ b/content/english/news/winding-down.md @@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ Ticket holders disappointed with this change can email me directly at abner@hand This story has two parts: financial and personal. -1. **Financial Reasons** +1. **Financial** I hinted at economic trouble at the beginning of [this](/news/summer-update-2025/) summer update and in the bottom section of my Terminal Click [announcement](https://terminal.click/posts/2025/07/open-beta/). It's common knowledge profitable conferences are a dying species and I'm surprised I've lasted this long: Deconstruct, Strangeloop, Bang Bang Con, XOXO and other small-to-medium sized events vanished. Even corporate-backed conferences are no longer around: O'Reilly, Xfest, E3 and so on went away. -2. **Personal Trauma** +2. **Personal** In the last Handmade Seattle I made a mistake with the balance of content. It was definitely jarring to have little in the way of old-school technical presentations. This caused a 50-50 split of positive versus negative feedback: the positive commentary came largely from newcomers, while the negative came largely from veterans. The reader can visit [older](/news) blog posts where I apologized and asked for feedback.