Honor, For The Brave - 2020/02/18 - Matteo's T-shirt A Day
Honor, the smartphone brand.
Honor is a smartpone and electronics brand owned by Huawei. This is a classic one with their older EU branding which I often wear under shirts because of how soft the cotton is.
We recently published our review of the Honor 9X a pretty cool smartphone with a popup camera.
I have a few other Honor t-shirts which I will be wearing throughout the rest of 2020. Keep an eye out for them.
Ideaa - 2020/02/05 - Matteo's T-shirt A Day
IDEAA, a non-profit organisation which organised the Big Android BBQ events.
This is a comfy extra large t-shirt I often wear around the house. It is definitely a comfort over looks one, despite the cool IDEAA logo. IDEAA was the non-profit organisation which enabled the planning of the Big Android BBQ events and other smaller events globally.
IDEAA. An extra large and extra comfy t-shirt.
I had the pleasure of meeting and working with some excellent people through IDEAA, and am thankful I made some friends at the time as well. This evening I will raise a glass to IDEAA and everyone who attended and made the Big Android BBQ events possible. Cheers!
Intel Developers Android - 2020/01/11 - Matteo's T-shirt A Day
A t-shirt of a tech future which could have been: Intel Android…
Around 2013 and 2014 Intel, one of the world’s biggest semiconductor chip manufacturers, was betting big on Android. They spent a lot of money seeding their products and driving the adoption of Android as a platform, in the hope of capitalising at a later date. Products like the Orange San Diego and the Tesco Hudl 2 came from this push of Intel’s and they were pushing hard on the developer onboarding as well.
This is an Intel Developer Zone t-shirt from 2014 which I was given at an Android developer conference called Droidcon.
Sadly Intel’s efforts were not as successful as they were hoping and due to some internal refocusing that whole area of their business was refocused on other things. Just 5 years later it is definitely not common to see many Android devices running on Intel chips. This is definitely one of those “what could have been” stories of the tech industry. Well, I have a cool t-shirt to remind me of it…
Linux Outlaws Black Long Sleeve - 2020/01/02 - Matteo's T-shirt A Day
Matteo pulls out a t-shirt from circa 2009 for a podcast which formed his geeky self in the years to come.
This is an oldie, but a good one: my Linux Outlaws long sleeve t-shirt. Linux Outlaws was a podcast I listened to from not long after it started in 2007 until its cancellation in 2014. Hosted by Fabian Scherschel and Dan Lynch, the show mainly focused on Linux and free and open source software.
Linux Outlaws black long sleeve t-shirt with western outlaw tux penguin. Circa 2009. “Linux Outlaws LINUXOUTLAWS.COM we aim to misbehave”
2007 was a fun year both from a travel and tech perspective for me. In September that year I visited my parents in Los Angeles, California and while there purchased the just released Apple iPod Nano (3rd generation, the chunky one). Being on an iPod and using iTunes, that is where I discovered the Linux Outlaws podcast. Don’t worry, the irony of discovering a podcast on free and open source software and consuming it on a locked down service and device was and is not lost on me.
What made the Linux Outlaws a special podcast for me was the fact that the hosts, Fab and Dan, fostered a healthy and geeky community around the podcast. I wrote in with questions or to make a point a few times and my answers were picked up and sparked conversation on the podcast. Most memorable for me was episode 19 (I think) where I asked Dan & Fab about this new Open Handset Alliance (Google’s Android) and how “open” it was going to be. I seem to remember them doubting it would be “open” and that my best bet was to go with something more like the OpenMoko. History was harsh and OpenMoko didn’t really go far as a project. Meanwhile Android ended up being the dominant mobile operating system globally. Even more ironically, the OpenMoko project then pivoted the OS for the reference device to Android.
The Linux Outlaws podcast and community played a vital role in my geeky evolution, and drove a lot of Linux distribution discovery for me. Distro-hopping, fixing stuff and learning through tinkering with technology are what then drove my life and career in the years to follow
Consider this just a taster of geeky t-shirts to come to the Tech Travel Geeks site in 2020. Almost all of them have an interesting backstory and the context the t-shirt came from contributed to my geeky self in one way or another.