I recently looked into getting spare bulbs for my Uebler bike rack (the X21S to be precise), and the official set (E1641) seemed a tad expensive (between €70 and €115 depending on supplier). After some brief research, I discovered that Read more
This post is relevant if you re looking to connect your newly obtained Portacount (or two, or three) to your PC (or Mac, or Linux machine, or anything else with a USB port)? Sadly, these machines use a non-standard pin layout Read more
Suppose you contribute to an existing open source project, and are interested in regularly running a custom workflow (e.g. static analysis, or tests with sanitizers, or other checks) against that project. To give a concrete example: I wanted to start Read more
When running code under sanitizers such as ASAN, you may wish to override the default symbolizer using: (Although it s currently not mentioned in the docs, there are equivalent LSAN_/MSAN_/UBSAN_ combinations should work with those respective sanitizers. Similarly you can even Read more
Unlike iOS (really just Safari), Android has no content blocking API. Tracking protection is available in some browsers, e.g. Firefox in combination with addons (and also in Firefox s private browsing which includes tracking protection enabled by default). For fun, we Read more
We re currently using Buddybuild as our CI system for Firefox Focus for Android. It s been a great solution for getting CI running with minimal hassle, and it also provides the infrastructure to quickly deploy builds for internal testing. Although Buddybuild Read more
We recently started trying to use VectorDrawable’s – this is as part of an effort to reduce and minimise app size. VectorDrawable’s are a vector image format, based on SVG. Reliably using them across multiple Android versions, and a diverse Read more
Over the course of the summer I ve been adding some minor improvements to various parts of the Impress Remote both on the Server and Android components. Remote Deauthorisation Dialog Improvements (for WiFi connected remotes) (Implemented at the Paris Read more
After a somewhat painful debugging experience*, it s now possible to view Calc documents on Android too. This combines the Calc Tiled Rendering work (thanks to the Google Summer of Code) with the LibreOffice Android Viewer developed by Collabora (thanks to Read more
At the Libreoffice Conference 2014 in Bern I gave some very brief talks, both related to my work this summer on tiled rendering (and the possibilities of reuse in external applications): Calc and Impress Tiled Rendering A shortish talk (as Read more