Where Have You Been?

I've been there and back again. Well okay, not like the Hobbit, but there are some adventures and misadventures to report.

Since last you saw a blog post from me, I’ve (in case you hadn’t noticed) completely revamped the theme¹ of this website, and merged it with www.danielfdickinson.ca.

In the process I have made a number of contribution to the Thulite project and gotten back to publishing the source code for Wild Tech ‘Garden’ as public source code repository, now on GitLab. I have also developed GitLab pipelines that require a number successful code quality checks to pass on a temporary branch before the changes can be merged into staing and/or main while limiting unnecessary duplications of tests.

At work, after much angst and a concerted effort with Yocto-Doky, and brief look at Yoe Distro we have decided the better part of valour is a more standard distribution as the basis for the new ABBY and GENIE tech platform.

This has all been achieved despite a month of poor health due nasal-induced sleep issues (that is nasal problem interfered with the use of my CPAP machine for over a month without my recognizing it, until an appointment with my doctor and consequently taking corrective action). In short, I wasn’t getting sleep, for at least month, even though I was groggy and thinking I was sleeping for many hours a night.

Much progress is also being made (that is I am implementing) enhanced networking and network security at work, along with preparing to trial a new identification method for enabling personalized content for for the ABBY.

Most recently (tonight) I wrote a short blurb on Linked In comparing the AI reliability (or lack thereof) to the reliability of weather prediction, and opining that AI is similar to weather prediction in that it is simply an estimate of the probability of some event (in the case of AI, which words are likely to go with given prompt).

And now this quick blog post for at least one person who will catch this in the RSS feed for this site via his feed reader service. 👋