Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Mail chew, patch bits, sync with Dave.
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Re-arranged the lounge to bring the Windows
build machine back into action for VM-based build
acceleration & office testing after its main role
(and ethernet cable) got replaced by a cheap Android-TV box.
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Published the next strip exploring whether maintenance
should be free:
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Chased a weird hanging in a Loading phase issue through
reams of logs.
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Mail chew, patch review, planning call, lunch.
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Disabled Vaultwarden's browser plugin - after the
performance horrors of re-scanning the DOM every keystroke - to
seeing if that helps with my wayland/x11 clipboard issues.
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Plugged away at a contract, still suffering from poor
contrast between selected and un-selected window titles in
GNOME
in light-mode too on large-screen, tried highlight
focus for my keyboard only flow.
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Date night with J. lovely to spend some time with
just her and eat out too, been a while.
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Up early, poked at XML attribute ordering issues in PPTX
export to minimize the diffs to what MS Office produces, used
officeotron to find a problem, and pushed a tentative patch.
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Lots of 1:1's with my reports - lots of goodness going on.
Plugged away at a contract until late.
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Up lateish, All Saints - iSing + some bass &
singing. Pizza lunch.
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Picked, practiced songs, played guitar for the
evening service. J. and H. doing some lino-printing action.
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Ran the service, home, relaxed.
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Up lateish, plugged away at tax filing with J. H.
and myself; three in one day - nice.
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Lunch, bid 'bye to Nina, out for a walk
with J. & H.
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Bit of hacking, and out to Tash's 40'th birthday
party and barn-dance in Isleham - fun.
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Mail chew, great TTT on cypress testing of our UI,
got a C++ unit test mend commit merged. Lunch.
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Plugged away at code review, syncs with engineers,
dug into some PPTX interoperability fun, and spent some time
minimizing some OOXML diffs.
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Watched Midway in the evening - gripping
enough even if you knew the ending. Nina over to stay.
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Up early, tech planning call, sync with Laser, plugged
away at planning & admin.
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Got a bit of trivial hacking in, trying to iterate CI
into some more working mode.
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Great to catch up with Markus in the evening who has
done some great work on calc table styles. Encouraging
partnering call with an old friend afterwards.
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Played songs for house-group, then off to Dave's to
minute Worship committee meeting.
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Mail, admin, deeper copy-paste training &
discussion with Miklos and the QA team for special focus -
there is a thousands-wide potential test matrix there.
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Sync with Italo on marketing, lunch, catch up
with Pedro.
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Published the next strip on the joy of win-wins, and
mutual benefits:
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Plugged away at the Product Management backlog, and
caught up with Philippe.
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Up early; train to the airport, software
failure causing massive queues, fun.
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Some coding on the plane, back after lunch,
call with Dave, got some hacking done - got my Proxy
Protocol unit test finished.
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Lovely to see the family again.
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To the venue; brainstorming how to improve,
more 1:1 chats with people. Lunch with the Office
team, more conversations.
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Bid 'bye to everyone, and off for dinner
with Frank and the openDesk team, kindly hosted
by B1, great to see them all & see Lily.
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Enjoyed Monty's talk in the morning, lots of
other talks & conversations with friends old &
new, dinner with Philippe & team nearby.
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Up early, to the bUm venue, briefed by Maria on
Hub 25 Autumn announcement, lots of friends and colleagues
arrived from left & right.
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Took part in the announcement, enjoyed lots of
conversations, gave a lighting talk, pizza in the evening,
chatted with people, late drinks with my team at the hotel.
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Up early, bid 'bye to E. and H. and J.
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Sync with Dave, admin, drove, plane to
Berlin.
Hacked on richdocuments code Proxy issues
on the plane, and until rather late at night with
Rash's help - fixed several rather annoying
short-read/write issues.
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Up early, mail, tech-planning call, tested latest CODE
on share left & right. Lunch.
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Published the next strip: on the excitement of delivering
against a tender:
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Sync with Lily.
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Collabora Productivity is looking to hire a(nother) Open Source clueful
UX
Designer to further accelerate our UX research and improvements. Some
recent examples of the big wins there.
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Mail chew, sync with Dave, catch up with Aron,
admin, lunch. All-hands meeting, sales call, visited
the Dentist.
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Up early, mail chew, planning call, quick UX stand-up.
Monthly management meeting.
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Tested software left & right call with Anna &
Joao & Caolan.
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Partner call in the evening. Worked on a Cooper's
Triangle trivet with H. in the garage - lots of band-sawing.
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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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