Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up hyper-early, got to work instead of trying to sleep: much more productive, another half a day's work.
Found some lost A/C folk, and helped them maintain our system.
Sync with Dave, Sarper, Thorsten, Mitch helped me unwind some Apple account horrors.
Published the next strip on a topic that plagues engineers: having a wonderful product or service is futile without a proper marketing & sales process.
2025-07-15 Tuesday
- Up early, cleared some mail, planning call, sync with Laser, Andras, snatched some lunch, monthly mgmt call.
- Customer sales call, sync with Miklos, poked at some code, multi-partner call. Fixed a silly flicker issue in the COOL UI.
- Supervised some EPQ-ness with Lily, lots of sanding and varnish.
- Curious to read about randomness as an idea to "prevent meritocracies from devolving into court societies dominated by schemers and sycophants." - interesting.
2025-07-14 Monday
- A day of 1:1's, marketing content review, topped off by minuting a PCC meeting.
2025-07-13 Sunday
- Up earlyish, All Saints - played violin. H.N.M. off to assist leading at Lymington Rushmore camp.
- Jocelyn & David over for pizza lunch & a chat. Ferried E. to & from Cambridge for a punting trip with Church.
2025-07-12 Saturday
- Hot, up lateish, nailed the wall variously for H's bedroom lights; sogged & talked hardware hacking.
- David over for BBQ in the afternoon, out for a walk on the heath together, relaxed with babes.
2025-07-11 Friday
- Up, mail chew; bit of hacking, train, plane, car back home with some large amount of standing around included.
- Got a bit of hacking done on the plane around translating ODF files. Lovely to be home and see everyone back!
2025-07-10 Thursday
- WeAreDevelopers for much of the day, a number of interesting talks interspersed by wandering the halls questing for document interested types.
- Tech planning call; back to the hotel, and out for dinner with Sarper.
2025-07-09 Wednesday
- Mail chew, dug through work, Thorsten arrived, caught up, checked-in at Berlin Messe Sud, out to visit Nextcloud, chat with Jos & Frank, Niels around and out for dinner.
- Published the next strip: Blake Enterprises to the rescue:
2025-07-08 Tuesday
- Planning call, sync with Laser, COOL Days retrospective: it rocked, lunch, met up with Robert.
2025-07-07 Monday
- Up earlyish, mail, 1:1's with Miklos, Thorsten, Naomi, Pedro, Eloy. Meeting with Philippe, and the finance team, catch up with Lily.
2025-07-06 Sunday
- Up early, off to All Saints with N. lead family service worship, chatted, home for pizza.
- Rested variously through the afternoon.
2025-07-05 Saturday
- Up early, watered the garden, out to Fountains Abbey with the parents, lovely walk through the ruins, and down by the river. Ice-cream & walked back, a lovely day for it.
- Had a fine lunch together, and drove home. Helped to unpack H's luggage, went shopping with J. and N. practiced music for tomorrow.
2025-07-04 Friday
- Breakfast together, out by bus to Harrogate to visit their Turkish Baths with J. - a digital detox - alternated cold & hot rooms and pools etc. Fun. Stopped in at EE shop on the way to try to unwind their horrible web experience. Lunch at a cafe.
- Home by bus, helped Father to drim the hedge, and admired various tools in the garage together.
- Had tea, and talked together until late.
2025-07-03 Thursday
- Up late, skipped breakfast, met up for lunch with Mark, really lovely to catch up with him.
- Back for a call with T. prepping around JTAG; good to discover Scan Chain testing; amazing to be able to serialize the whole state of a chip before and after a 'clock' to check for consistency. Left H. having an interview.
- Walked into town with J, to discover an appointment arriving, headed home quickly, call with Peter & Philippe. Helped to pack H's belongings into the car, bid 'bye and drove to M&D's in Knaesborough.
- Out for a (non-alcoholic) pint in town, back for tea and saw M&D. back from dancing, enjoyed chatting with them until late.
2025-07-02 Wednesday
- Up early, cooked breakfast, sync with Dave, chewed mail & tied up loose ends while J. shopped & babes slept.
- Tried to manage multiple phones under EE's website - apparently this is the feature that is just beyond the edge of their capability to design & maintain; un-usable, website riddled with errors, missing content - billing pages that fail to load. Usually you would expect the piece where you can pay money to a telco to actually work even if nothing else is available; weird.
- Published the next strip around how to stimulate donations for your non-profit:
- Dressed in glad rags, out to the Engineering Department with H. for drinks & celebration, met her supervisor. Back to H's, watched Capital then set off to the Cathedral green to queue for photos, and seats in the Cathedral.
- Watched H. get her Degree conferred in a fine service. Caught the end of a partner call - met with H's friends, saw her old room.
- Out to a Turkish restaurant to celebrate together, bed early.
2025-07-01 Tuesday
- Planning call, partner marketing call, intermitten progress reviews on-line with E.'s teachers.
- Worked in the car cleaning up loose ends, while J. drove, then drove. Arrived, met up with H. & N. enjoyed some Greggs.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)

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