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The post-2020 Linux server landscape metamorphosis
This is “part one” of a three-part blog post on the challenges of keeping up with the “software updates treadmill” in the land of Linux. The next two parts are going to be about the Linux desktop....
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The Software Upgrade Treadmill and Life’s crazy chain of dependencies — an...
This blog post talks about the general types of hurdles I’ve been encountering on the desktop side of the “upgrade treadmill” when running Linux. It is part two of a three-part blog post série. If...
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New photography portfolio
Side note: I originally planned to publish part III of my “upgrade treadmill trilogy” on January 31st, 2022, but something unexpected came up in recent days, which might make me rewrite the majority...
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Year MMXV summarized in 2 ½ minutes
I’m doing a quick retrospective on the last seven years (you’ll see why later). In this first part, here’s a short overview of what I did in 2015 (2 to 3 minutes reading time): In the spring of 2015,...
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Year MMXVI in 1 ½ minute
This is part 2 of my seven-years retrospective. It is again kept extremely short and high-level. I took down my online personal Interaction Design portfolio back then, leaving just a summary page.I...
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Year MMXVII in 1 ⅓ minute
As part of my seven-years retrospective, here’s a high-level overview of what I did in 2017, in roughly 1 minute and 20 seconds: Pictured: mai waifu. I did a painting featuring Tintin vs Sephiroth....
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CHANS battery rebuild: giving traditional laptops a new life with refactored...
Back in 2018, when I acquired my legendary ThinkPad X220, I discovered that there is a lady in Ontario, Ms. Chulkova, who does professional battery rebuilding as a side-gig: if you’re in Canada (or...
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Year MMXVIII summarized in 4 minutes
Was super excited to see a GNOME hackfest focused solely on investigating performance issues in GNOME Shell, and the great work that happened from 2019 to 2021 on that front. It made a huge...
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Year MMXIX summarized in 5 minutes
As part of my seven-years retrospective, here’s a 5-6 minutes readable summary of what I did in 2019. Personal life summary Q4 2018’s intense professional stress was replaced by emotional exhaustion...
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Year MMXX summarized in 7 minutes
For some reason, I didn’t get to see much people, and didn’t have much client work revenue throughout that year. I’m not sure why 🤔 TwentyTwenty was filled with unexpected events, discoveries, and...
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GTG 0.6 release candidate
Today we are publishing a “release candidate” version of Getting Things GNOME 0.6. You can either try it out directly from the git master version (by running launch.sh; see the general instructions),...
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How long does it take to create a website? (and why your FLOSS project...
The 2019–2020 period was a long R&D cycle for me, with a whole herd of yaks to shave, however it did give me new tools and abilities, such as the capacity to rapidly develop modern-looking...
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Year MMXXI in 8 minutes
Near the end of 2020, I put a lot of thought into reevaluating my business’ value proposition, strategy, and processes. It’s a good thing I did that back then, because 2021 was quite different from...
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Getting Things GNOME 0.6 released
Yes, ladies, gentlemen, and seemingly-dead plants, it’s happening: after over 10 months of incremental work from the community, we are now releasing version 0.6 of our favorite personal productivity...
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Please adapt Mozilla’s code so that PDF readers on Linux can handle XFA forms!
Y’know, all those horrible government forms? No, I mean the digital ones, meant to be opened specifically with Adobe Reader? Well, in Q4 2021, Mozilla’s PDF.js landed support for XFA PDF forms, so...
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Unsettled by Unison’s Fadeaway from Fedora
This is in part a rallying cry for packagers, but also a story illustrating how fragile user workflows can be, and how some seemingly inconsequential decisions at the distro level can have disastrous...
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The post-lockdown work rave, abuse, and shortened fuses
This article is a mix of personal stories, social & interpersonal psychology, and technology (with some drive-by remarks about Free & Open Source software). I originally drafted this article...
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Please help test (and fix) GTG’s GTK 4 port
As you know, even with a “simple” language like Python, porting a desktop application to a new version of GTK can be a pretty significant amount of work; doubly so when it is accompanied by major...
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Why I picked the biggest furry elephant as my microblogging platform (and...
This article will require between 1 and 2 minutes of your attention if you read only the first half; obviously double that if you also feel like reading the second (more philosophical & strategic)...
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Help us make GNOME Calendar rock-solid by expanding the test suite!
GNOME Calendar 45 will be a groundbreaking release in terms of UX (more on that later?), performance, and to some extent, reliability (we’ve at least solved two complex crashers recently, including a...
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