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  • 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

    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

    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

    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

  • Another week with KDE Plasma

    Another week with KDE Plasma

    At the beginning of the year I gave KDE Plasma a try as the primary desktop on one of my devices. It wasn’t my primary laptop but I still used it heavily in that time. I enjoyed it but there were still some niggles that meant I wouldn’t have been happy with it being my… Read more