Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Up earlyish, pottered about - discovered a router
collet extension in the garage that solved my curious
not-fitting problem: nice.
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Got the robot lawn-mower back into action: now
without a garden full of windfall apples: nice.
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J. out to YFC prayer lunch. Poked at work backlog,
caught up with H. and E.
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Out for dinner to The Pantry with J. -
lovely.
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Sync with Dave, caught up with mail and planning
backlog. Enjoyed Mike's TTT on VclPtr bits while eating
lunch.
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Several hour proposal meeting, sync on new
partner, call with another partner - fun. Caught up
with admin backlog.
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Out to Wetherspoons for a Churches Together men's
curry - good to see lots of the lads
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Up early, tech-planning call, sync with Lily,
snatched lunch, sync with Miklos, more planning, admin
and estimation.
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House group - Lent course on the Desert Fathers.
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Sync with Dave, then Anna & Timur, then
Davide, Mathias, Miklos, Pedro, Skyler & Andras.
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Published the next strip around the problem of what
public statements to make as a community:
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Sales engineering, sync with Oliver &
Thorsten, worked on estimation, catch up with Keith,
worked late.
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Up early, caught up with admin. Longish planning
call. Sync on CP Germany's final merger pieces.
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Sync with Laser, lunch, interview in the
afternoon, more admin, worked late.
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Up early, encourging meeting with new partner
in the morning, worked in taxi & on flight back.
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Up earlyish, off to All Saints with J&A.
Back for a pizza lunch together.
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Rested, and watched All Quiet on the Western Front
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Taxi to STN - flight to Milan, taxi, hotel late.
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Relaxed somewhat, tidied the garage, hacked
a bit. Went for a walk with J. and H. by a farm.
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Anne over to stay, and David for dinner -
had a nice time together.
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Up earlyish, poked at some code in the taxi,
and on the train. Interesting call with Alvaro on the
train.
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Eventually home, more on-the-train hacking space.
J. picked me up, dinner, bit more work in the evening.
Call wiht Eloy.
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Up too early, taxi to Cambridge, train to Kings
Cross, Eurostar to Paris.
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Got some time for hacking on the train, poked at
timezone horrors - copying 1800+ tiny files (total
size ~2.5Mb) into stacked file-systems left and right
seems madness, particularly since we already ship a
duplicate timezone database in an embedded ICU. Should
speedup jail creation time nicely, and reduce per-doc
memory footprint in the copy case.
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Encouraging day of meeting CIOs, and other FLOSS
luminaries - lots of fun and interest. Great dinner in the
evening.
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Sync with Dave. Catch up with Joao, Timur & Anna.
Lunch. All Hands call.
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Published the next strip inspired by just one of
Northcote Parkinson's insights in his epic management
book: Bike Shedding:
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Poked at code and admin left and right until late,
packed for Paris tomorrow.
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Planning call, sync with Laser, lunch. Sync with
Andras, monthly mgmt meeting.
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Got to some design & coding for COOL 26.04 - nice.
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Up rather early, back-to-back 1:1 calls, marketing
content call. Watched Michiels' FOSDEM keynote, chunk of
company admin.
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Up too early, All Saints, good to spend time with the
church family.
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Home for pulled-pork lunch, slugged variously together.
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Up late, plugged away at work, bought some
flowers and chocolates for J. More work.
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J&M. home at lunch time, out for a walk.
Spent a while organizing the garage & binning
un-needed things left and right.
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Some more hacking while E. had a Galentines
party with her friends.
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Up earlyish, out for a run with J. worked on
valentines day card(s). J. left to Aldeburgh; poked
at some work here and there.
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Drove to Ipswich for Bruce Griffin's funeral,
lots of mourning, good eulogy from Suzannah, readings
variously and organ from H. The end of an era.
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On to The Wentworth Hotel in Aldeburgh for a
reception, talked with the family and friends variously.
Drove home, dropped H. & N. at Cambridge North.
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Slugged with E. watched a silly movie.
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Up early, mail, tech-planning call, sync with Lily,
lunch, catch up with Rash, sync with Laser, then Pedro.
Plugged away at some bits in the evening.
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Home group in the evening.
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Up early, sync with Dave. Eye test at some
length: all good. Sync with Mike, design call with
the team. Popped into the sale call.
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Published the next strip on why doing something now
generally beats doing something wonderful later:
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Train to London for partner meeting, dinner,
back by train extremely late.
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Up early mail, planning call. Sync with Laser,
FOSDEM retrospective - improvements for next time.
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Lunch, sync with Andras & Anna, screenshare
with Miklos, poked at orginal-suffix auto-superscripting
leaking over newlines somehow.
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Chewed back through post-FOSDEM mail and actions.
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Up early, breakfast with the family, mail chew,
bid 'bye to Anne. Staff & partner calls all day.
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H. cooked a fine dinner, back to work.
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All Saints in the morning with N. singing, lovely.
Caught up with people afterwards.
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Back to see Anne, S&C, A&J arrived - and
out for a rather fancy afternoon tea at the Bedford Lodge
to celebrate Anne's 90'th - fun.
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Relaxed in the evening - watched Second Hand
Lions together, great speech.
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Up late, unpacked, cleaned, got through some admin.
Caught up with a bit of E-mail, H. & N. back from skiing
lovely to see them again.
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At some stage it turned into the next day,
arrived at Frankfurt, then Köln, then Brussels.
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Mixed sleeping on trains, and working in the
cold between them. People complain of the DB wifi -
but it seems great to me, I'd be more interested
in curing the absence of warm waiting rooms at
train stations.
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J. picked me up from Cambridge (with E.) -
finally home good to sleep in a real bed.
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Off to the recording venue on the S-bahn in the
snow: romantic and crisp looking at one level - with very
nicely swept pavements.
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Caught up with the team, recorded tid-bits around
the forthcoming Collabora Online release - fun.
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Set off for home, queued at the airport interminably
only to find the plane cancelled - snow not so cute. Planned
a marathon series of train connections to get home instead,
and set out.
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Enjoyed DB's surprisingly good wifi on their high
speed train to catch up with work overnight.
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Up too early, flight to Berlin. Practiced briefly
for the Nextcloud Hub Winter 2026 announcement video
pieces with Jos & team, feeling rather groggy.
Bed earlyish.
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Published the next strip on the risks of thinking
too big:
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More hack-fest-age, gave updates on what people
had worked on. Started fond farewells to people. Out to
stock up on meds for the team for post-fosdem illness.
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Dug more through admin backlog, so many good
things going on. Dinner with Tor, Fridrich. Evening
drinks with Laszlo.
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Hack-fest much of the day, great to see new people
coming along with ideas and eagerness to hack on things;
dug out some code pointers to help.
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Spent some time planning interactions with Stephan
for on/off-line editing. Out for lunch together, and back
to some hackery and admin catch-up from travel, and seeing
what other people are up-to.
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Dinner on the eighth floor with the hack-festers.
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Up too early, breakfast & off to FOSDEM with
another large batch of beavers. Wandered the streets
chatting to old friends and distributing branded goodness.
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Enjoyed Michael Stahl's (too) short talk on the
trials of using CRDTs for peer-to-peer live comment editing.
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Out for a nice Collabora Office dinner with team +
some friends.
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Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
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