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2025  1

January  1

Strauss as Pop Music

January 1, 2025 · Tim Retout

2024  2

April  1

seL4 Microkit Tutorial

April 29, 2024 · Tim Retout

January  1

Prevent DOM-XSS with Trusted Types - a smarter DevSecOps approach

January 1, 2024 · Tim Retout

2023  3

December  1

Nostalgia for my attention span

December 6, 2023 · Tim Retout

April  1

Data Diodes

April 18, 2023 · Tim Retout

February  1

AlmaLinux and SBOMs

February 4, 2023 · Tim Retout

2022  2

June  1

Git internals and SHA-1

June 29, 2022 · Tim Retout

April  1

Exploring StackRox

April 26, 2022 · Tim Retout

2021  5

October  2

Reflections on OSSF London 2021

October 7, 2021 · Tim Retout

GCP - Planning for the Worst

October 4, 2021 · Tim Retout

September  2

Maglev Load Balancers

September 28, 2021 · Tim Retout

Google Workspace Super Admins

September 19, 2021 · Tim Retout

January  1

Go Trie Benchmarks

January 10, 2021 · Tim Retout

2020  6

December  3

Golang Trie

December 31, 2020 · Tim Retout

Focusing on Ingenuity

December 28, 2020 · Tim Retout

Bin Calendar

December 28, 2020 · Tim Retout

May  2

seL4 on Raspberry Pi 3 in AArch64 mode

May 11, 2020 · Tim Retout

Lockdown

May 6, 2020 · Tim Retout

January  1

2020

January 2, 2020 · Tim Retout

2019  3

September  1

PA Consulting

September 4, 2019 · Tim Retout

February  2

My Free Software Activities for Jan/Feb 2019

February 28, 2019 · Tim Retout

Blog Migration

February 27, 2019 · Tim Retout

2018  1

May  1

Tokenizing IT jobs

May 29, 2018 · Tim Retout

2017  3

August  1

Jenkins milestone steps do not work yet

August 14, 2017 · Tim Retout

April  1

Packet.net arm64 servers

April 25, 2017 · Tim Retout

January  1

Happy New Year!

January 1, 2017 · Tim Retout

2015  4

January  4

CPAN PR Challenge - January - IO-Digest

January 17, 2015 · Tim Retout

Docker London Meetup - January 2015

January 15, 2015 · Tim Retout

Decluttering

January 2, 2015 · Tim Retout

Looking back at 2014

January 1, 2015 · Tim Retout

2014  11

August  3

Website revamp

August 31, 2014 · Tim Retout

Pump.io update 1

August 28, 2014 · Tim Retout

Packaging pump.io for Debian

August 23, 2014 · Tim Retout

July  3

London.pm’s July 2014 tech meeting

July 25, 2014 · Tim Retout

Cowbuilder and Tor

July 22, 2014 · Tim Retout

apt-transport-tor 0.2.1

July 21, 2014 · Tim Retout

June  1

Day of Action

June 7, 2014 · Tim Retout

February  2

Backporting some Perl modules

February 15, 2014 · Tim Retout

FOSDEM 2014

February 6, 2014 · Tim Retout

January  2

OpenVPN and easy-rsa

January 2, 2014 · Tim Retout

2014

January 1, 2014 · Tim Retout

2013  4

December  2

How not to parse search queries

December 2, 2013 · Tim Retout

Questhub.io

December 2, 2013 · Tim Retout

June  1

Sophie

June 16, 2013 · Tim Retout

January  1

New Year

January 3, 2013 · Tim Retout

2012  15

December  1

Perl Forking, Reference Counting and Copy-on-Write

December 21, 2012 · Tim Retout

October  4

Recruiting

October 27, 2012 · Tim Retout

Wedding

October 6, 2012 · Tim Retout

The Library - a challenge

October 2, 2012 · Tim Retout

Enscript 1.6.6

October 2, 2012 · Tim Retout

September  2

Inbox zero

September 13, 2012 · Tim Retout

Shelves

September 10, 2012 · Tim Retout

June  1

NMUs on the go

June 6, 2012 · Tim Retout

May  1

Engaged!

May 8, 2012 · Tim Retout

April  2

Weekend of change

April 11, 2012 · Tim Retout

Bye, Mark.

April 8, 2012 · Tim Retout

February  1

2012-02-09: Thursday

February 9, 2012 · Tim Retout

January  3

Lenovo X121e 3G with ModemManager

January 24, 2012 · Tim Retout

Perl tutorial searches revisited

January 19, 2012 · Tim Retout

Perl Tutorial

January 9, 2012 · Tim Retout

2011  12

December  1

SFTP default umask

December 10, 2011 · Tim Retout

October  1

BITE server

October 16, 2011 · Tim Retout

August  1

Apache Request-Range headers

August 31, 2011 · Tim Retout

July  4

Lessons

July 30, 2011 · Tim Retout

DebConf 11

July 28, 2011 · Tim Retout

No comments

July 22, 2011 · Tim Retout

The Prisoner

July 13, 2011 · Tim Retout

June  1

HMRC data

June 14, 2011 · Tim Retout

March  1

Software Architect

March 6, 2011 · Tim Retout

February  2

Gnash and cookies

February 12, 2011 · Tim Retout

Swirl

February 5, 2011 · Tim Retout

January  1

Grandma

January 22, 2011 · Tim Retout

2010  43

December  1

File synchronisation

December 26, 2010 · Tim Retout

November  10

The Archers website

November 24, 2010 · Tim Retout

First RTMP connection

November 19, 2010 · Tim Retout

Gnash and librtmp

November 15, 2010 · Tim Retout

Imitation is the sincerest of Flattr-y

November 11, 2010 · Tim Retout

Splitting librtmp from Gnash

November 10, 2010 · Tim Retout

Eyeing up iPlayer

November 8, 2010 · Tim Retout

Gnash and downloaded SWF files

November 7, 2010 · Tim Retout

Gnash from git

November 3, 2010 · Tim Retout

Flattr-y will get you nowhere

November 3, 2010 · Tim Retout

Boxes

November 1, 2010 · Tim Retout

October  10

LibreOffice

October 30, 2010 · Tim Retout

RC bugs for w/c 2010-10-17

October 24, 2010 · Tim Retout

Erm… more bugs.

October 17, 2010 · Tim Retout

WIP

October 15, 2010 · Tim Retout

Aptitude

October 12, 2010 · Tim Retout

myspell-hu

October 8, 2010 · Tim Retout

More bug fixing

October 7, 2010 · Tim Retout

Warn your distributor

October 4, 2010 · Tim Retout

Problem solving

October 4, 2010 · Tim Retout

NMUs

October 3, 2010 · Tim Retout

September  1

Debian Perl talk

September 11, 2010 · Tim Retout

August  5

Hacking

August 30, 2010 · Tim Retout

SmoothWall Express on Debian

August 16, 2010 · Tim Retout

Sunny Southampton

August 10, 2010 · Tim Retout

For future reference

August 4, 2010 · Tim Retout

Fireflies

August 3, 2010 · Tim Retout

July  10

Tea

July 31, 2010 · Tim Retout

Reverse build-depends

July 29, 2010 · Tim Retout

Running around

July 27, 2010 · Tim Retout

Arriving at DebCamp

July 26, 2010 · Tim Retout

New York

July 25, 2010 · Tim Retout

Gnash and BBC glow

July 19, 2010 · Tim Retout

Gnash

July 17, 2010 · Tim Retout

Starting the Emacs daemon

July 16, 2010 · Tim Retout

Toggle fullscreen in Emacs

July 9, 2010 · Tim Retout

Play

July 4, 2010 · Tim Retout

June  1

Work

June 25, 2010 · Tim Retout

March  1

Recording video with gstreamer

March 1, 2010 · Tim Retout

February  2

Plugging the Debian GNOME bug weekend

February 22, 2010 · Tim Retout

Facebook and XMPP

February 12, 2010 · Tim Retout

January  2

Net-NationalRail-LiveDepartureBoards

January 14, 2010 · Tim Retout

Hudson and Devel::Cover

January 7, 2010 · Tim Retout

2009  55

December  3

Back

December 23, 2009 · Tim Retout

Moving

December 11, 2009 · Tim Retout

Flat

December 1, 2009 · Tim Retout

November  6

My favourite Ubuntu patch

November 26, 2009 · Tim Retout

Delayed gratification

November 24, 2009 · Tim Retout

On mentors and museums

November 16, 2009 · Tim Retout

More RC bugs

November 16, 2009 · Tim Retout

RC bug roundup

November 14, 2009 · Tim Retout

Greetings

November 9, 2009 · Tim Retout

October  6

SmoothWall Express - ntpd

October 29, 2009 · Tim Retout

The story so far

October 26, 2009 · Tim Retout

The Future Is Here

October 25, 2009 · Tim Retout

Transaction Scope Guards

October 25, 2009 · Tim Retout

Postcodes

October 6, 2009 · Tim Retout

Code Reuse

October 4, 2009 · Tim Retout

September  2

Escape Velocity

September 20, 2009 · Tim Retout

Unit testing

September 9, 2009 · Tim Retout

August  1

Southampton

August 27, 2009 · Tim Retout

July  5

Conclusions

July 29, 2009 · Tim Retout

DebCamp

July 22, 2009 · Tim Retout

DebConf9 continues

July 19, 2009 · Tim Retout

DebConf9

July 18, 2009 · Tim Retout

Blog back

July 17, 2009 · Tim Retout

June  3

The Techteam Suck

June 30, 2009 · Tim Retout

Thinking

June 23, 2009 · Tim Retout

Paper

June 22, 2009 · Tim Retout

May  4

Einem Freien Parlament

May 26, 2009 · Tim Retout

Notifications

May 25, 2009 · Tim Retout

Roast Chicken

May 16, 2009 · Tim Retout

Baked Potato

May 3, 2009 · Tim Retout

April  7

Cancer

April 27, 2009 · Tim Retout

RDAS

April 19, 2009 · Tim Retout

Squid on Windows

April 9, 2009 · Tim Retout

Mushroom Risotto

April 6, 2009 · Tim Retout

Kernel Mode Setting on Debian

April 2, 2009 · Tim Retout

Lasagne

April 2, 2009 · Tim Retout

Three egg omelette

April 1, 2009 · Tim Retout

March  7

Pasta with Tomato Sauce

March 30, 2009 · Tim Retout

1GB should be enough for anybody

March 29, 2009 · Tim Retout

SWOTting up

March 27, 2009 · Tim Retout

Cooking for Project Managers

March 26, 2009 · Tim Retout

OpenOffice.org

March 25, 2009 · Tim Retout

Flymake and XML on Debian

March 21, 2009 · Tim Retout

Organization

March 19, 2009 · Tim Retout

February  2

Popularity

February 14, 2009 · Tim Retout

OpenOffice.org evangelization

February 8, 2009 · Tim Retout

January  9

Telford Ted

January 26, 2009 · Tim Retout

Enscript security patches

January 25, 2009 · Tim Retout

Fixing Problems

January 24, 2009 · Tim Retout

Emacs and Epiphany

January 23, 2009 · Tim Retout

Holiday

January 23, 2009 · Tim Retout

Blind and stupid

January 21, 2009 · Tim Retout

Random

January 19, 2009 · Tim Retout

Things I learnt today

January 16, 2009 · Tim Retout

O RAILLY

January 8, 2009 · Tim Retout

2008  47

November  6

Campaigning

November 17, 2008 · Tim Retout

Change

November 15, 2008 · Tim Retout

EDM 2141

November 9, 2008 · Tim Retout

mod_macro

November 9, 2008 · Tim Retout

Interesting Times

November 1, 2008 · Tim Retout

That time of year again

November 1, 2008 · Tim Retout

October  6

Atheism

October 24, 2008 · Tim Retout

Fail

October 22, 2008 · Tim Retout

Hydro

October 22, 2008 · Tim Retout

RC != Roman Catholic

October 21, 2008 · Tim Retout

WNPP bugs are like debt

October 20, 2008 · Tim Retout

Meta

October 19, 2008 · Tim Retout

August  3

Masochism

August 5, 2008 · Tim Retout

Argentina

August 4, 2008 · Tim Retout

Vital Statistics

August 1, 2008 · Tim Retout

July  3

GNU Hackers’ Meeting 2008

July 13, 2008 · Tim Retout

OpenJDK in Debian main

July 13, 2008 · Tim Retout

gnu-standards in Debian

July 4, 2008 · Tim Retout

June  8

The things I do for Debian

June 30, 2008 · Tim Retout

Licence club

June 27, 2008 · Tim Retout

Recent fixes

June 21, 2008 · Tim Retout

Library

June 17, 2008 · Tim Retout

It’s all very technical, you know…

June 10, 2008 · Tim Retout

Free software, fix it

June 4, 2008 · Tim Retout

Link to your bug report

June 3, 2008 · Tim Retout

aMSN sound with PulseAudio

June 1, 2008 · Tim Retout

May  3

Pidgin ‘Open Mail’ bug

May 31, 2008 · Tim Retout

IDE

May 17, 2008 · Tim Retout

Bank Holiday and stuff

May 6, 2008 · Tim Retout

April  7

GNOME Bugzilla edit rights

April 22, 2008 · Tim Retout

GPG trustdb batch updates

April 9, 2008 · Tim Retout

Linux Hardware Support

April 8, 2008 · Tim Retout

Debian BSP

April 6, 2008 · Tim Retout

Demise of Windows XP

April 6, 2008 · Tim Retout

I’ll be at DebConf8

April 3, 2008 · Tim Retout

PostgreSQL UK 2008

April 3, 2008 · Tim Retout

March  6

Shell startup times, part 2

March 24, 2008 · Tim Retout

Encryption and disk access

March 22, 2008 · Tim Retout

Shell startup times

March 22, 2008 · Tim Retout

F-Spot 0.4.2-1 done

March 21, 2008 · Tim Retout

Looking towards lenny

March 9, 2008 · Tim Retout

Post-FOSDEM thoughts

March 8, 2008 · Tim Retout

February  4

Where did last year go?

February 22, 2008 · Tim Retout

New Jabber Address

February 10, 2008 · Tim Retout

More Crazy Ideas

February 7, 2008 · Tim Retout

I’m busy, honest.

February 2, 2008 · Tim Retout

January  1

Stale config files and upgrades

January 2, 2008 · Tim Retout

2007  36

December  12

Fitts’ law bugs

December 31, 2007 · Tim Retout

Hello from Morpeth

December 23, 2007 · Tim Retout

Desktop annoyances - getting a prompt

December 19, 2007 · Tim Retout

Desktop annoyances - network lag

December 17, 2007 · Tim Retout

Emacs keybindings for GTK text fields

December 7, 2007 · Tim Retout

TAOCP volumes I and II

December 7, 2007 · Tim Retout

Ubuntu for relatives

December 7, 2007 · Tim Retout

Munin Apache uptime plugin

December 4, 2007 · Tim Retout

I want to learn Emacs

December 3, 2007 · Tim Retout

Rugby LUG inaugural meeting

December 3, 2007 · Tim Retout

Back to using Linux wireless tree

December 2, 2007 · Tim Retout

Enscript git repositories

December 2, 2007 · Tim Retout

November  5

More CPAN uploads

November 22, 2007 · Tim Retout

DateTime::Event::WarwickUniversity version 0.02

November 19, 2007 · Tim Retout

GNU Enscript Maintainership

November 17, 2007 · Tim Retout

WUGLUG talks last Wednesday

November 17, 2007 · Tim Retout

Swapping Caps Lock and Ctrl

November 11, 2007 · Tim Retout

October  2

Woo, internet

October 19, 2007 · Tim Retout

Mönchengladbach

October 11, 2007 · Tim Retout

September  11

Dragging

September 27, 2007 · Tim Retout

GNOME and XDS

September 25, 2007 · Tim Retout

New domicile

September 25, 2007 · Tim Retout

First day at credativ

September 17, 2007 · Tim Retout

Engineers

September 14, 2007 · Tim Retout

Killing ODB

September 14, 2007 · Tim Retout

64-bit Semprons

September 10, 2007 · Tim Retout

Jackfield

September 9, 2007 · Tim Retout

PyCon UK

September 9, 2007 · Tim Retout

First post

September 7, 2007 · Tim Retout

LinuxConf.eu 2007

September 5, 2007 · Tim Retout

August  6

BCM43xx wireless range

August 26, 2007 · Tim Retout

Automagic screen window titles

August 23, 2007 · Tim Retout

Bring on GVFS

August 22, 2007 · Tim Retout

GPLv3 in Debian

August 21, 2007 · Tim Retout

Yahoo! UI Libraries

August 21, 2007 · Tim Retout

One step at a time

August 20, 2007 · Tim Retout