Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
|
|
This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit
Collabora
Productivity a subsidiary of Collabora focusing on LibreOffice support and
services for whom I work.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
Failing that, there are all manner of interesting things to read on
the LibreOffice Planet news
feed.
Older items:
2023: (
J
F
M
A
M
J
),
2022: (
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
),
2021,
2019,
2018,
2017,
2016,
2015,
2014,
2013,
2012,
2011,
2010,
2009,
2009,
2008,
2007,
2006,
2005,
2004,
2003,
2002,
2001,
2000,
1999,
legacy html
-
Slept poorly; un-screwed leaking drain with H's help.
Wow; full of solids nearly to the brim, after some investigation
discovered the hole filled with a metre cubed bulk sand bag and
some rocks: which had been acting as a solid filter presumably
since construction by Pete Mathews Home Improvements Ltd. not
great. Set too trowling the volume down with H's help.
-
Interupted by a pleasant call with Simon & Nick
at Linux Format and lunch.
-
Worked on delta cache pieces until J. returned.
-
Finally solved the plumbing issue by the evening; grim.
You don't realize how wonderful modern sanitation is until it
doesn't work.
-
Shut the bathrooms draining into the dodgy manhole;
still have some free capacity luckiy. Waited for drain people
to arrive.
-
Sales call, some marketing bits; more delta debugging.
-
No-one arrived to charge us some hundreds of pounds to
unblock the drains by the late evening - hey ho.
-
Managed to reproduce an annoying Online crash; Aron
got a nice reproducer good to get that fixed. Discovered the
drains not draining - things from upstairs coming out
downstairs: not cool. Called emergency drain un-blockers -
picked the one that gave a quote in pounds for tomorrow.
-
Pleased to find SSL issue fixed & released.
-
Planning calls; came to do tax & annual accounting
to discover a failed bank-pin RSA dongle - why is the battery
not user-serviceable ? odd.
-
All Saints, J. ran Kids For Christ (KFC). Relaxed.
-
Building in the garage with David; got more of the next
wall insulated, plaster-boarded and so on.
-
Up very late working with Ash on a rather surprising SSL
related regression.
-
Some hacking time at last - lots of progress on improving
delta + keyframe compression and storage - nice. Catch-up call
with Gerald.
-
Relaxed and caught up with H. who helped with the garage
building work somewhere here.
-
N. got a positive COVID test - and started self-isolating,
M. to the dentist, H. home - really lovely to see her after so long.
COOL community call, admin etc.
-
Sales calls, band practice.
-
Took babes to school; planning calls; mail chew,
marketing catch-up.
-
All Saints; fine lunch, slugging.
-
David over; got much more stud-work with ply screwed
to the garage ceiling, floor, fibre-glass into sections and
plasterboard onto the back wall.
-
Mail & admin catch-up, sync with Gokay. Got some
cable pulls sorted out in the garage.
-
1:1's, COOL community call, catch-up with Julian
Seward - its been too long - really missing in-persons like
FOSDEM.
-
Debugged delta pieces, monotonic timestamps and so on.
-
Sales meeting; Productivity monthly all-hands meeting,
band practice.
-
1:1's, slides, monthly mgmt meeting.
-
Planning calls, catch-up with Olivier Paroz; All Saints
PCC meeting in the evening.
-
All Saints, Kelsey over for lunch - lovely to get
to know her a bit better.
-
David over; dunged out the garage, built beautiful timber
frames overlayed with ply-wood and perfectly square. Fitted them
into place to discover the concrete floor and/or ceiling is far
from level; time for expanding-foam and packers.
-
Catch-up call with Rash, worked on slides variously.
-
COOL Community call, various 1:1s, bits of hacking,
catch-up with Peter G.
-
E-mail catch-up, sales call, band practice, finished
solding up the Geiger Counter - getting around ~1 scintilation
each second or two on average: not very sensitive I suspect -
hopefully sees more than passing muons.
-
Breakfast & meetings in the morning, train, plane
home again - good to be back.
-
Up earlyish, day of meetings - interesting people
lots of good things going on. Dinner in the evening together.
-
All Saint in the morning, B&A, S&C & boys over
for a lovely lunch; got a train to Heathrow - first time back
on the road after endless lock-downs. Arrived in Hamburg, got
to the Hotel, sleep.
-
Set too soldering components, David over too - E. turns
out to be the only person who can fit through a tiny gap - at
least one of the family can.
-
Worked with Ash on a Secure View talk; call with Florian,
catch-up with Gokay. Men of Faith pot-luck dinner at AllSaints
in the evening.
-
Catch up with Miklos, COOL community call, call with Andras;
got some hacking done on deltas.
-
DIY Geiger Counter PCB and components showed up: available
on github
-
Sales call, competitor chat, customer call, catch up
with Gokay - life seems to be mostly calls these days.
Band practice.
-
Team 1:1's variously, Nextcloud catch-up, sales call.
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)
