Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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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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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.
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Up early, mail chew, sync with Miklos, most of the rest of
my team apparently out on holiday - or have their whole country's
electricity grid collapsed. Tested 25.04 - found a couple of
ship-blocking issues.
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Debugged the issues, and did some hacking elsewhere. Got
an (only) 30% win threading slideshow layer compression: seems the
problems are as always in the browser.
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Partner call.
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All Saints, Sue lead the family service, I lead
worship with Steve, Cedric, Rick & Lydia - fun.
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Back for Lasagne with E. in the sun, chatted. E.
to a new church in Cambridge with a friend.
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Black Mirror, Blacklist and The Residence
in the evening.
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Pottered around the house, got the mower setup after
more comic configuation errors (software!) to tackle the front
lawn with obstacle cut-outs. Packed outside tap gland with
PTFE tape. Bit of code review.
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Out for a walk with J. - lay in the sun on the
race-course together talking - lovely.
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Took down peach-tree leaf-curl avoiding cover:
fitted replacement timer for central heating. Sealed
various suspicious gaps in the pantry causing mystery
drafts(?)
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Mail chew, sync with Dave, scan at hospital,
back for a partner call. Listened to an interesting
TTT from Jonathan on complex text - with M. at lunch.
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Back for a partner call, mail chew, patch review,
dinner, watched movies with babes. Caught up with Nicolas
in the evening.
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Up in the night to try to get a day of skipped admin
under control. Worked from 2am, quick sleep before a meeting
ruined by failed alarm-clock.
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Technical marketing writer offer call, reviewed H's
interesting paper on temperature & humidity sensors
characterization. Sync with Lily.
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Sorry to see H. go "home" to University. Home group
in the evening, rest.
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Up early, sync with Dave, Tracie & a partner.
Encouraging monthly all-hands. Collabora quarterly mgmt
meeting for much of the afternoon.
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Published the next strip: Draft Governance Rules
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Band practice in the evening.
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Planning call, sync with Karen, marketing content-call.
Monthly management meeting, CEO call, tried to catch-up on mail.
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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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