- Early partner call, chewed mail, brief catch-up with Pedro, partner call, lunch. Sync with Eloy, monthly management meeting.
- Somehow after a week of conference, trying to get back into sitting-in-one-spot-all-day mode again.
- Dropped E. to school. Planning call, lunch, marketing content call. Admin bits.
- Packed the car, managed to ge the bike rack on the back; set off with J, and N. to Loughborough. Got N. fed, settled into her room, and partially unpacked. Blessed her & bid 'bye.
- Out for a burger in town, and drove home together; another daughter not at home: traumatic.
- Somehow ended up hacking over midnight; got AVX2 profiled - 2x faster than optimized C++ - for processing 8 pixels at once, a somewhat smaller win than expected.
- Got home very early, sleep. Up at midday for brunch with N. M. and E. - lovely to see them and spend time with them again.
- StAG in the evening; passionate sermon explaining the text with a Welsh flavour - lovely.
- Home to see J. and H. - back from Durham and to catch up with their news.
- Picked up babes, found lost soldering iron(s) for H. and had the fun of building a set of tools for N. to take to University. Bed early.
- Up; snatched breakfast at speed; got to the venue just in time to give a reasonably stock talk to students on why contributing to LibreOffice is awesome for student's skills as developers.
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Call from H. trying to find a soldering iron
to mend a failed Philips LCD screen PSU board; on to
talk a little about a few economic themes.
- Caught up with Florian at some length; its been too long; bid 'bye to many friends, thanked Gabriel and other 1&1'ers - and headed for dinner with Caolan, Cor & Uwe.
- Got to the Airport early; RyanAir flight delayed by around an hour shock - on-time RyanAir flights appear to be like the yetti for me.
- Got blog updated, and slides up-loaded on the plane.
- Up lateish; listened to a somewhat saturated Caolan's crash-testing talk on jitsi streaming - hopefully the recordings will be great quality. To the venue, talked to lots more people back to back.
- Held an impromptu talk for Uwe and some others on COLEAT - Tor's IAT patching interception wizardry - finally noticed.
- Community dinner in the evening; up until early in the morning working on slides.
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Breakfast, to the (great) venue, enjoyed the various
keynotes from 1&1, and gave my own. Intense hallway
track goodness, talking with people, fun.
- Into town again to a historic restaurant for some interesting food, and good company; bed late.
- Up rather late; some recovery at least. Worked on slides. Out to the venue meeting Leif on the way - for community meeting, instead spent much of the time in the hallway track - really good to meet so many old friends and colleagues in person.
- Out into the town via the Metro to visit the Old Town with Gabriel and lots of the community. Back late, worked on slides; into late-night conference working mode.
- Checked out, to the venue, caught up with more people left & right. Off to the Airport, met Svante, flight to Bucharest for the LibreOffice conference. Worked on slides on the plane.
- Arrived via bus & Bolt to the hotel, and out for dinner with Raal & Dennis added - good to see lots of people in-person again.
- Up later; off to the venue, hunted people to get feedback and ways to improve - useful. Debugged a few interesting issues, got started on some builds.
- Fascinating AI ethics talk from Daphne's favorite professor; good stuff.
- Lily back early, dinner with Richard from SuNet, and to bed - via more slide creation.
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Up earlyish; breakfast together, headed to the
conference venue. Enjoyed more talks, gave a lightning
talk (plus some bonus standup with Brent Gervais).
- Enjoyed Simon's summary of the developing regulations coming up in the EU, really pleased to see Sweetshark again in-person.
- Caught up with Stefan, Frank, Jos, Fabian, Philippe, Maxime and many more. Out for a fine dinner in the evening in Frank's Tesla with Simon & our joint teams - great to work together.
- Met Niels and Wieland from OpenProject over breakfast on the way to the fascinating Motion.Lab venue with Naomi, Eloy & Lily for the Nextcloud conference.
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Great venue, lots of interesting people. Enjoyed
various talks, including Max Schrems; caught up with lots
of the wider Nextcloud team. Gave my first ever workshop
inside a Bus converted into several meeting rooms - missing
Gokay who built the slides with Pedro. Pizza together.
- Up early, M. driving lesson, H. working from home; bid 'bye to J.
- Partner call, H. dropped me to the station, train to airport - flight to Berlin. Met up with Eloy, got to our appartment, met up with Lily in person for the first time & had dinner together - fun.
- Technical planning call, COOL community call, partner review call, sync with Miklos. Off to the Dentist for some drilling action. More slideware & review.
- Bible study group with Nicki & Alex. Up late reviewing M. unviersity applications.
- E. off early for some DofE hiking action.
- Catch up with Pedro, Eloy, weekly sales call, worked on slides for pending conferences, sync with Philippe.
- Up too early, dropped car for windscreen replacement in Milton with J. Sync with Quikee, Andras, potential customer call, lots of admin. Got mended car back with J.
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