Back to work
Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:17:00 -0500

End-of-year holidays are already over and it's back to work again.
This holiday season, I managed to get some rest and catch up on some
much-needed sleep, which was great.

Besides snoozing and resting, I spent time working on a few things,
starting with taking care of some important paperwork that were
hanging over my head for a few weeks, which was exactly as "fun" as
you could imagine -- I'm just glad to be done with it.

I also wanted (and needed) to reinstall GNU/Linux on two of my
machines; Trisquel 11 (Aramo) my GNU/Linux distribution of choice,
and Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudo) for work.  On the one I use for work,
it turns out the /boot partition I'd originally created for Ubuntu was
too small, and would likely cause issues with distribution upgrades;
so, I needed to do some repartitioning to allocate a larger /boot for
it.  As for the Trisquel installation, it was Trisquel 10 (Nabia),
which I wanted to upgrade to Aramo and also use a different partition
layout.  So, repartitioning and reinstalling both distributions on
this machine was the way to go.  As for my other [non-work] machine,
the Trisquel version there was also Nabia, but with an even clunkier
partition layout.  So, I repartitioned it and installed Aramo on this
other machine as well.

With the machines ready to go, I set up my development environment
for Jami[1] again, and prepared two documentation patches[2,3].
I also worked on a couple of other Jami-related tasks that are still
works in progress, and I hope to have more to say about them soon.
It's been nice working on Jami again; I hadn't gotten a chance to do
so in the weeks leading up to the end-of-year holidays, but I'm hoping
to make up for it in the coming weeks.

At work, the company chat was quieter than usual today, since not all
folks are back from holidays yet.  I caught up with my email backlog
and started getting back into the flow of things, picking up where I'd
left off before the holidays.

Take care, and so long for now.

P.S.  shout out to nm03 and their phlog[4] with 'back to work' posts
from various points in time.

[1] https://jami.net
[2] https://review.jami.net/c/jami-client-qt/+/23515
[3] https://review.jami.net/c/jami-daemon/+/23516
[4] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/nm03/