Welcome to 2018, everyone! Here’s hoping to a happier, healthier, less chaotic year, filled with more kindness, love, and understanding than the world saw in 2017.
Airline flights are a good source of downtime, and have historically been a great time for me to brainstorm and reflect, and today’s flight from Chicago-Midway to Charlotte was no exception. I now have an ambitious and aggressive roadmap for this year, both personally and professionally, and it includes everything from Dancer improvements to new service offerings and products. Most of 2017 felt wasted to me, and it’s important to me to make amends to myself in the coming year.
Happy Friday! Here’s a healthy dose of randomness to start your weekend:
The iOS 11 update is pretty nice so far, especially for iPad users. However, the battery usage on my iPhone 6s seems to have increased significantly. Has anyone else noticed this?
PostgreSQL 10.0 has been released! Check out the announcement.
AOL Instant Messenger will be discontinued on December 15th. It’s the end of an era.
The Perl Dancer Survey 2017 is online. The Core Team needs and wants your feedback about the future of Dancer. Find out more about the survey, and get your response in by October 31.
It’s been a long and frustrating road, but I have finally resolved the touchpad issues that have plagued me for seemingly forever in Linux. By installing libinput and using it in favor of the Synaptics touchpad driver, the touchpad sensitivity issues that have often plagued my sessions of heads-down programming have come to an end.
On the flip side, however, the latest kernel build for Dell/Ubuntu 16.04 has destroyed Bluetooth support on this laptop. Prior to this update, it was working flawlessly. I am looking at how to revert to an earlier kernel in hopes that I can get it back. Secure boot seems to be standing in my way.