Programming: Debian Developers, Meson 1.1.0, and Building Pipelines

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 11, 2023

• Gunnar Wolf: Twenty years

  Twenty years… A seemingly big, very round number, at least for me.

  I can recall several very well-known songs mentioning this timespan:

  • «It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play», sang four youth idols in 1967 for whom said timespan was not-quite-but-almost their full lifes so far.

• Aurelien Jarno: New website, or kind of...

  For over 15 years, I've hardly made any updates to my website, and it remains low on my priority list. So I made a radical decision to replace it entirely with my blog. The content of the website has been reduced to just two additional pages.

• Meson 1.1.0

  Meson 1.1.0 was released on 10 April 2023

• Don’t Fix Things; Build Pipelines

  I think one of the most powerful ideas in business—or any kind of organization really—is the distinction between fixing things vs. building pipelines. I used to think about fixing things. You work a company. You see a problem. You talk to the right people, make the correction, and you move on.