Posted on Wed 21 February 2018 in general • Tagged with benchmark, emacs, linaro, org-mode, qemu
While working on a major re-factor of QEMU's softfloat code I've been doing a lot of benchmarking. It can be quite tedious work as you need to be careful you've run the correct steps on the correct binaries and keeping notes is important. It is a task that cries out …
Posted on Tue 06 February 2018 in geek • Tagged with conference, edsac, emacs, fosdem, linaro, lisp
I've just returned from a weekend in Brussels for my first ever FOSDEM - the Free and Open Source Developers, European Meeting. It's been on my list of conferences to go to for some time and thanks to getting my talk accepted, my employer financed the cost of travel and hotels …
Posted on Wed 17 January 2018 in geek • Tagged with edit with emacs, emacs
After a bit of hiatus there was enough of a flurry of patches to make it worth pushing out a new release. I'm in a little bit of a quandary with what to do with this package now. It's obviously a useful extension for a good number of people but …
A couple of weeks ago I mused that I should really collect together the various hacks to integrate checkpatch into my workflow into a consistent mode. Having a quick look around I couldn't find any other implementations and went to create the said mode. It turns out I'd created the …
Posted on Tue 29 April 2014 in geek • Tagged with emacs, linaro
I'm fairly atypical as a Linaro employee because I have a desk in a shared office. This means I get to participate in technical banter with the other employees based in the Cambridge office. However it has become quite clear I'm surrounded on all sides by VIMers with only one …