Since all of the other Nemiver hackers are moving on to new jobs (ok, so there’s only me and Dodji, but you can help fix that by joining us!), I figured I may as well announce my own job-related news. Last week I gave my notice at my current job, and I’ve signed a contract with Collabora to do work related to WebKit. I’m really excited to be able to spend more time hacking on free software and to have the opportunity to work with some really talented people on interesting projects. Also, it feels great to be able to escape the cubicle farm at last.
Category Archives: Life
Fiddling
A belated happy first birthday to my beautiful daughter. It’s been a fantastic year.
Since then it seems like I’ve been sick most of the time. Instead of doing something useful, I’ve taken to fidding on a re-write of my Agave colorscheme designer, and I’ve made a decent amount of progress. It still lacks a lot of features of the original, but it benefits from my vastly better grasp of gtkmm and related technologies. I still don’t know if I’ll ever actually get around to releasing it. It’s currently serving as a way for me to relax and take breaks from my other projects. It’s become sort of a playground for me to try out new technologies, and I think I’ve succeeded in making it nearly impossible for normal users to build as it requires quite a few very new or unreleased libraries (goocanvasmm, giomm, glibmm-utils, etc).
Here’s a little screencast of what I’ve done so far:
I’ve set up a repository on github for anybody that’s interested in playing around with it.
Also, I’ll be taking over some glibmm maintainer duties from murray after the 2.16.0 release.
Musical Perfection
I like music. I like a lot of different kinds of music. But from time to time I hear a song that makes my body tingle, the sort of song that doesn’t sound like it was written, but rather discovered; a ‘perfect song’, so to speak. I discovered another perfect song this evening while listening to my local radio station: Beirut’s ‘A Sunday Smile’. Happily, it is currently available as a free mp3 download at Beirut’s official website, and I’ve been listening obsessively all night. I think maybe I should stop before I overdo it.
R has been making huge strides (haw!) in her walking ability. She’s practically up to running already, chasing the dog and cats around the house with glee. She’s pretty much completely given up on crawling at this point, and just walks everywhere. I’m also happy to report that she seems to be developing a love for music: whenever we start singing, she stops what she’s doing and starts swaying back and forth in a little dance.
We’re also nearly at the stage where we learn which words we say way too often. For instance, R has been making a lot of wordlike sounds lately, but she’s only just recently started saying ‘no’ very clearly and quite frequently. For instance, she’ll walk over and grab a big handful of dirt from the potted plant (to eat, naturally) while saying ‘no no no no’.
Update: by request, for those of you without flash, here’s a direct link to download A Sunday Smile in mp3 format.