not waving but drowning

I have been contacted by several recruiters looking for Erlang experience. Python and C/C++ knowledge is just assumed, but Erlang seems to be growing in demand. I have no idea what that means for the industry.

Yesterday I made my first screencast. I used all free software to do it - XVidCap for recording the video, Audacity for recording the voiceover, and PiTiVi for mixing and rendering the final product. One of the things that I noticed was that the keys I was pressing on the mouse and keyboard were not [...]

If you go to my launchpad home page you can now subscribe to an Atom feed about all the branches that I am involved with (whether that is branches that I am reviewing, coding on, etc.) This just went live a few minutes ago, and Brad did a great job coding it up this month.

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i don’t remember much lightning in the storms the last few days, but apparently there was, and it blew up my dishwasher. spent the evening replacing the whole mess, after disassembling the old one and noting the burns on the control board. the girl helped me install the new dishwasher, and convinced me that i [...]

Finished the system plugin for gnome-do, pushed the latest code to launchpad and proposed for merge into core. This adds Reboot, Shutdown, Logout, Lock, Suspend, and Hibernate commands to gnome-do. I hope it gets merged in time for Hardy.

This server is now running Hardy Alpha 3, need to figure out a problem with en_US not [...]

Well, Ubuntu Hardy Alpha 3 has been released. I’ve been running Ubuntu Hardy on my laptop since a few days after the archives opened (and have learned a lot debugging the system as I followed along with development). It feels pretty good now, and I’m excited because this release is going to turn into the [...]

Inspired by Mr Ultra lounge himself, I’ve made some upgrades. The sidebar to this blog now has a feed of the latest activity on bugs I’m involved with in launchpad, and code snippets are now formatted nicely for folks who have javascript turned on. Soon I will swap out the bug feed for a feed [...]

the repaired laptop is back from system76. they even threw in a free upgrade to integrated bluetooth! Tom emailed me several times during the repair process, letting me know the laptop arrived, confirming my address, providing a tracking number, etc. System76 has the best customer service of any company I’ve dealt with. And I’m thrilled [...]