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1. Dewey Defeats Truman!
   Jul 8, 2024 · original
   I’ve had the opportunity to do some democracy lately, for the French 2024 European Parliament elections, the French 2024 legislative elections and the British 2024 General Election. I didn’t actually participate in the British election, despite the legal right, for a few reasons: Needing to re-register to vote every few years, which I apparently failed to do in time Needing to apply for a postal vote every time Relying on wishes and prayers that the postal vote arrives in time to make use of it, which it has failed to do so in the past Having enough time to actually return the postal vote for it to be counted. Do you know what it costs to ship a ballot for next-day international delivery? Lots. I had to do that when voting in 2019 Ultimately, it doesn’t make a difference – I won’t be properly represented by the MP for Banbury when I live 3500 miles away So… I didn’t vote in the British e
2. Saving my Wrists, Part 1: moving to an ergonomic mouse
   Jan 10, 2024 · original
   I’m full aware of my bad desk work ergonomics. I’m pretty good at sitting position – back straight, lumbar pillow, lap sloping forward, using my standing desk whenever the cat steals my chair, etc etc etc – but I use a normal gamer keyboard and mouse in a cramped position. Late last year I started getting a bit of a twinge in my wrist, which reminded me of the time I properly flaunted with carpel tunnel at my first job doing an extensive intensive coding project on an ultra-small laptop. And with the upcoming 2024 refresh of the company’s wellness expense budget, I decided to start looking into more ergonomic pointing device options. My first avenue of exploration was trackballs, but despite the existence of the GameBall , there is realistically no way to use a trackball for both office work and gaming. That was a core requirement for me – I didn’t just want a device sold by an ergonomic
3. Building a NAS
   Sep 12, 2023 · original
   The status quo Back in 2015, I bought an off-the-shelf NAS, a QNAP TS-453mini, to act as my file store and Plex server. I had previously owned a Synology box, and whilst I liked the Synology OS and experience, the hardware was underwhelming. I loaded up the successor QNAP with four 5TB drives in RAID10, and moved all my files over (after some initial DoA drive issues were handled). QNAP TS-453mini product photo That thing has been in service for about 8 years now, and it’s been… a mixed bag. It was definitely more powerful than the predecessor system, but it was clear that QNAP’s OS was not up to the same standard as Synology’s – perhaps best exemplified by “HappyGet 2”, the QNAP webapp for downloading videos from streaming services like YouTube, whose icon is a straight rip-off of StarCraft 2. On its own, meaningless – but a bad omen for overall software quality The logo for QNAP HappyG
4. Retirement
   Aug 23, 2023 · original
   Apparently it’s nearly four years since I last posted to my blog. Which is, to a degree, the point here. My time, and priorities, have changed over the years. And this lead me to the decision that my available time and priorities in 2023 aren’t compatible with being a Debian or Ubuntu developer, and realistically, haven’t been for years. As of earlier this month, I quit as a Debian Developer and Ubuntu MOTU. I think a lot of my blogging energy got absorbed by social media over the last decade, but with the collapse of Twitter and Reddit due to mismanagement, I’m trying to allocate more time for blog-based things instead. I may write up some of the things I’ve achieved at work (.NET 8 is now snapped for release Soon ). I might even blog about work-adjacent controversial topics, like my changed feelings about the entire concept of distribution packages. But there’s time for that later. May
5. My name is Jo and this is home now
   Oct 29, 2019 · original
   After just over three years, my family and I are now Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) of the United States of America. It’s been a long journey. Acknowledgements Before anything else, I want to credit those who made it possible to reach this point. My then-manager Duncan Mak, his manager Miguel de Icaza. Amy and Alex from work for bailing us out of a pickle. Microsoft’s immigration office/HR. Gigi, the “destination services consultant” from DwellWorks. The immigration attorneys at Fragomen LLP. Lynn Community Health Center. And my family, for their unwavering support. The kick-off It all began in July 2016. With support from my management chain, I went through the process of applying for an L-1 intracompany transferee visa – a 3-5 year dual-intent visa, essentially a time-limited secondment from Microsoft UK to Microsoft Corp. After a lot of paperwork and an in-person inte
6. Too many cores
   Mar 13, 2019 · original
   Arming yourself ARM is important for us. It’s important for IOT scenarios, and it provides a reasonable proxy for phone platforms when it comes to developing runtime features. We have big beefy ARM systems on-site at Microsoft labs, for building and testing Mono – previously 16 Softiron Overdrive 3000 systems with 8-core AMD Opteron A1170 CPUs, and our newest system in provisional production, 4 Huawei Taishan XR320 blades with 2×32-core HiSilicon Hi1616 CPUs. The HiSilicon chips are, in our testing, a fair bit faster per-core than the AMD chips – a good 25-50%. Which begged the question “why are our Raspbian builds so much slower?” Blowing a raspberry Raspbian is the de-facto main OS for Raspberry Pi. It’s basically Debian hard-float ARM, rebuilt with compiler flags better suited to ARM11 76JZF-S (more precisely, the ARMv6 architecture, whereas Debian targets ARMv7). The Raspberry Pi is
7. Bootstrapping RHEL 8 support on mono-project.com
   Mar 8, 2019 · original
   Preamble On mono-project.com, we ship packages for Debian 8, Debian 9, Raspbian 8, Raspbian 9, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, RHEL/CentOS 6, and RHEL/CentOS 7. Because this is Linux packaging we’re talking about, making one or two repositories to serve every need just isn’t feasible – incompatible versions of libgif, libjpeg, libtiff, OpenSSL, GNUTLS, etc, mean we really do need to build once per target distribution. For the most part, this level of “LTS-only” coverage has served us reasonably well – the Ubuntu 18.04 packages work in 18.10, the RHEL 7 packages work in Fedora 28, and so on. However, when Fedora 29 shipped, users found themselves running into installation problems . I was not at all keen on adding non-LTS Fedora 29 to our build matrix, due to the time and effort required to bootstrap a new distribution into our package release system. And, as if in answer to my
8. On the topic of being part of a large and diverse community, including people whose identities you might not be able to personally understand
   Sep 21, 2018 · original
9. EOL notification – Debian 7, Ubuntu 12.04
   Feb 26, 2018 · original
   Mono packages will no longer be built for these ancient distribution releases, starting from when we add Ubuntu 18.04 to the build matrix (likely early to mid April 2018). Unless someone with a fat wallet screams, and throws a bunch of money at Azure, anyway.
10. Update on MonoDevelop Linux releases
    Feb 23, 2018 · original
    Once upon a time, mono-project.com had two package repositories – one for RPM files, one for Deb files. This, as it turned out, was untenable – just building on an old distribution was insufficient to offer “works on everything” packages, due to dependent library APIs not being necessarily forward-compatible. For example, openSUSE users could not install MonoDevelop, because the versions of libgcrypt, libssl, and libcurl on their systems were simply incompatible with those on CentOS 7. MonoDevelop packages were essentially abandoned as unmaintainable. Then, nearly 2 years ago, a reprieve – a trend towards development of cross-distribution packaging systems made it viable to offer MonoDevelop in a form which did not care about openSUSE or CentOS or Ubuntu or Debian having incompatible libraries. A release was made using Flatpak (born xdg-app). And whilst this solved a host of distribution

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