Obligatory disclaimer: this post is my opinion, and my opinion only. It does not represent the opinion of my current, past, and future employers. Indeed, as always is the case for my blog, this post is not signed off by anyone in my reporting chain. While there are some references to my work of the...

My early career in Free Software has been spent working on multimedia software, among other reasons because I always liked music, particularly when working on something. Back in the early 2000s we didn’t have Spotify or other streaming services, at best we had Internet radios, and the quality of the sound from those radios was...

You may remember that I have, many many years ago (it will be 11 in August), taken over unpaper, because the original author was not interested in maintaining it, and I was using it for pre-processing all of my scanned documents. I have since stopped scanning from Linux due to… multiple factors, but I have...