Author: Jeff
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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 opportunities to think about a lot of things. As nobody needs to read another editorial about the pandemic, I will attempt to…
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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 in 2019’s Q1 and Q2. Caring for folks who have residual schizophrenia comorbid with depression and high-functioning autism, really is a lot of work…
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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 difference. Was thrilled that Mozilla finally got their sh!t together when it comes to performance in Firefox, with the initial release…
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CHANS battery rebuild: giving traditional laptops a new life with refactored batteries cells
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 the USA, to an extent) you can get your laptop (and other power tools) battery cells replaced by new high-quality cells.…
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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: I did a painting featuring Tintin vs Sephiroth. Because I could. It is only in February of that year that I found the time to finally review and sort through over 2750…
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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 completed my 2nd term on the board of the GNOME Foundation, and wrote a report summarizing my duties that year.At the end…
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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, I wrote a blog post reporting on my first term (2014-2015) as the president of the…
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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 of that blog post for the 3rd time, so… holding pattern for now. It’ll probably happen later in February-March. In the meantime,…
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The Software Upgrade Treadmill and Life’s crazy chain of dependencies — an epic tale about Firefox, GTG, Python, and Linux distros
Modern software update cycles now happen at a breakneck pace, and it can be a challenge for users to keep up. Life’s chain of dependencies to get back on track when a piece of your workflow breaks can be daunting. This epic tale illustrates the invisible struggle.
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The post-2020 Linux server landscape metamorphosis
It used to be that you could deploy a server, and forget it for years. The accelerated pace of web development puts pressure, and Red Hat’s changes to CentOS may be bringing about the biggest platform migration in years.