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Fixing an OpenSSL issue with Curl and Autotools
One project I created at MariaDB is libMariaS3 [source, documentation]. It is a lightweight simple LGPL licensed API to access Amazon S3 and compatible object storage implementations. We created it so that GPL v2.0 licensed projects could use S3 without the license incompatibility of Amazon’s Apache 2.0 licensed SDK. MariaDB itself uses this for the… Read more
Episode 2: Introduction to Open Source and Licensing
Open Source Software is key to many of innovations in technology over the last few decades. It is also a fundamental requirement to build communities around software development. In this episode I give a brief introduction and an overview of Open Source and the licenses behind it. Please excuse the hay fever induced muffle of… Read more
Episode 1: Depression and Burnout
Depression and burnout are common problems, especially in the tech industry. In this episode I discuss my person experience of them in the hope that it will open a dialog. Brandon West’s video discussed in the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtQTu4yCk-Q Intro music for this Podcast is “Sunshine version 2” by Kevin MacLeod Read more
My Open Source projects that still live on
I have recently created a new library called libMariaS3 for a couple of teams at MariaDB which provides a simple C API to Amazon’s S3. This was created because we needed a library which could link to GPLv2 software and Amazon’s own library is Apache 2.0 licensed which is incompatible. It is not a perfect… Read more
Solving my Intel GPU performance issues
For the last few days I had my laptop connected to an external monitor which has a 2560×1600 resolution. Whilst having a few websites open and doing a video chat the laptop completely ground to a halt with the fan going full speed. My laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad X260 with an i7 CPU and… Read more
KDE Plasma Testing With Kubuntu
After my previous post on testing KDE Plasma on KDE Neon my friend and colleague Max commented with “Any thoughts on using Neon over Kubuntu”. That did get me thinking as to whether or not Kubuntu with the backports PPA is as good and as stable to use as KDE Neon. Read more
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