Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Mail chew, sync with Dave.
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Published the next strip around job titles, hierarchy and
contribution:
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All Hands call, sync with Philippe, poked at an
interesting bug.
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Planning call, catch up with Andras, monthly
management meeting, sync with Tracie. openDesk partner
call.
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Sync with Miklos, loong, dense partner call. Sync
with Naomi & Richard, Pedro, popped into the TDF board
meeting.
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All Saints in the morning, played violin.
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David over for pizza lunch, exhausted - fell
asleep, relaxed, bed early.
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Up lateish; breakfast with E. poked at E-mail and
worked on COOL-days presentations. Lunch.
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Disassembled a 2nd hand Typhoon 30Li battery
mower to see why it doesn't work; seems I was missing a
shunt/key to make it work - bent some Aluminium plate to
do the job - and a working hover mower: easier than
re-assembling it.
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Talked with H. , then N. briefly,
J. home - tea in the sun on the patio, admired her flower
growing.
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Bit of hacking, pushed an amazing amount of Draftex
under my office's skirting board; no wonder it was cooler
than it should be with J's help.
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Worked on slide outlines. Chinese take-out for dinner.
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J. off to see A. - sync with Dave; multi-partner call.
Prepped slides in a gap & gave a talk with Szymon on
COOL protocol log reading & our visualization bits.
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Long partner call in the afternoon, bid 'bye to Karen
in-person, and got Laser setup with various bits.
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Dinner with E. watched things variously together.
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Breakfast with B. - mail chew, tech planning call,
early lunch. Partner sales call.
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Sue arrived, packed and drove home via visiting A.
in hospital - who can now walk again: nice.
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Drove home, lovely to see E. calls, code
reading, rest with J.
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Mail chew, signed visa papers for another great
COOL
Days attendee, just under a month to go: exciting.
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Sync with Dave & Laser.
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Published the next strip around resolving apparently
irreconcileable differences: "show me the road"
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Lunch. Partner call, another partners call, sync with
Daniel and Naomi. Testing, bug filing, some patch review.
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Up very early, bid 'bye to A & J, breakfast
with B. power cut - power restored.
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Planning call, finished mail, tested some tickets,
read some code changes.
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Out for lunch into town with J. and B.
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Back for a partner call, sync with Laser, wider
partner meeting, admin.
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Dinner with B, call with A, and E. - all well.
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Mail chew; 1:1 with Miklos, sync with partner, and got
double-booked for another partner. Lunch, packed the car &
drove to B&Amp;A's.
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Got big screen setup there, call with Pedro - high speed
internet everywhere is a wonderful thing. Sync with Eloy.
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Dinner with B&A&J - watched Darkest Hour:
politics.
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All Saints family service, played violin - on bread.
Interested in etymology of Beth-lehem as house-of-bread/food.
Home for bready pizza lunch.
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Relaxed in the afternoon, J. making some nice lino
prints, prayed together, watched movies.
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Up earlyish. Plugged away at various tasks, into Church
to glue together an organ stop. Spent some time further cutting
down, and writing a unit test.
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David over in the afternoon, got mower base-station
support painted again made some cable cleats, got some ducting
to protect mower power wires installed - much better.
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Dinner together, and talked until later. Watched
The Residence - fun.
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Couple of solar-panel chaps showed up to estimate.
Catch-up with Dave, Partner, mail chew & isolated my
new pet bug. Wrote a unit test.
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Interested to see a newish phenomenon of users trying
vibe
coding in bug reports. Many programming problems should
not be too hard for someone reasonable awake with little
experience and some AI support to help learn; as long as
that doens't consume lots of reviewer time I guess.
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Sealed some gaps under skirting boards with DraughtEx - fun to
get it wedged under things.
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Tech planning call, plugged away at admin and testing 25.04.
Spent some time reproducing and interesting problem and cutting a
document down that shows that.
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1:1 with Lily, then Naomi. More bug chasing.
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Home group in the evening.
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Pleased to see 25.04 looking good, my blockers fixed at
least. Fixed slide threading issue.
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Sync with Dave, and published the next TORF strip: "My
friends see me as something of a visionary"
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Glad to see CODE
25.04 released - a great foundation for our next year of development.
Based of course on the latest stable LibreOffice 25.02. Lots of encouraging
new fixes, features and interactivity wins there: great work team &
community - many thanks to all who have contributed.
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Catch up with Tracie & a partner, then Philippe 1:1.
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Band practice in the evening.
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Long planning call; sync with Karen, lunch, catch up
with Kendy, sync with Eloy, admin. Out for a run with J.
multi-partner call, mail.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
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