The Real Lifehttps://romain.blogreen.org/categories/the-real-life/kill(1, SIGUSR2);Contributions to Free Software in 2025 Three years ago, I started working on wtr(1) (Work Time Recorder), a time tracking system that complies with my intolerance to toil but allows me to track the time spent on projects for work (as one would expect) and for fun (as one might not have expected). Time tracking happening without me having to think about it, I try to track all "major" projects or at least each "organization" I am involved in in my contributions to Free Software.

I now have 2 full years of metrics, and so can compare them and maybe learn a few things! First, let's see a fancy graph similar to the one produced by GitHub for my overall activity over 2024 and 2025:

Beside showing obvious periods of vacations, this view provide a few interesting metrics:

  • The number of days with/without activity recorded for the full date range (578/731);
  • The median duration of activity recorded by day (9:16:15)
  • The total duration of activity recorded for the full date range (223 days 17:43:32)
]]>https://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2026/01/contributions-to-free-software-in-2025/FreeBSDSysadminThe Real Lifehttps://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2026/01/contributions-to-free-software-in-2025/Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:00:00 GMTDisabling mouse feature from composite remote deviceThe remote of my Kodi based media center recently died and I bought a replacement one, identified as a 2.4GHz Fly Air Mouse Wireless Keyboard Motion Sensor Remote Control on Banggood.

The device is viewed as a composite one consisting of a keyboard and a mouse. The mouse feature can be disabled/enabled using a mouse lock button on the remote.

Only problem, when the device wakes up from standby mode, the mouse device is always enabled and the cursor moves on screen, selecting whatever is below it… Pressing the mouse lock button stops the madness, but as the mouse enter standby mode after a few seconds of inactivity the same problems happen over and over again.

I fixed this by software. This was a 2 steps process:

  1. Reduce the mouse sensitivity so that the cursor does not move when the device moves;
  2. Trigger keypresses on mouse clicks.
]]>https://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2016/01/disabling-mouse-feature-from-composite-remote-device/SysadminThe Real Lifehttps://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2016/01/disabling-mouse-feature-from-composite-remote-device/Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:19:59 GMTI'm on the RadioEarlier this year, 4 friends and I joined together with the goal of having our very own radio show. The first show was recorded in late November and was on air in the beginning of October. From that date, every two week, a new issue is broadcasted live on Radio Campus Clermont-Ferrand.

The show is called Les aventures du comte de Malamanteau (French for Earl Malamanteau's Adventures), and is mostly music centered: during one hour, a selection of music from a given country (a different one for each issue) is aired. So far, we have visited South Africa, Kenya, Tunisia, Lebanon, Ukraine and Finland.

A website has been setup for listeners to have access to broadcasted shows and gathering more information about the music we chose and location we visited: malamanteau.fr.

Screenshot of the home-page of malamanteau.fr

]]>https://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2011/12/i-m-on-the-radio/BlogreenThe Real Lifehttps://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2011/12/i-m-on-the-radio/Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:35:00 GMT1 year, 1 month, 1 week, 1 dayOh No, Not Again

]]>https://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/07/1-year-1-month-1-week-1-day/The Real Lifehttps://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/07/1-year-1-month-1-week-1-day/Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:40:00 GMTBack from Libre Software Meeting 2009On monday, I decided to spend the end of the week in Nantes for the Libre Software Meeting (LSM). It was the first time I attended to this event and it was not really what I expected. By the way, there were quite exciting talks, and videos of some of them may be available for download (I did not found any yet but I guess some post-processing is required so we need to be patient).

]]>https://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/07/back-from-libre-software-meeting-2009/The Real Lifehttps://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/07/back-from-libre-software-meeting-2009/Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:53:00 GMTBaptiste, now you can drink at homeThis is a personal message for Baptiste Grenier (comme un grenier) who complained about the fact I had much more oil and vinegar sorts then wines and other alcohols the last time he came at home (and so took his own bottles).

]]>https://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/05/baptiste-now-you-can-drink-at-home/The Real Lifehttps://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/05/baptiste-now-you-can-drink-at-home/Wed, 06 May 2009 15:16:00 GMTApril!After waiting and turning impatient, that's it!

]]>https://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/04/april/The Real Lifehttps://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/04/april/Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:42:00 GMTMarchLast month, I wrote to the TypeMatrix guys asking for skins availability. They hopped to have some by February, unfortunatelly, no TypeMatrix skins are available yet :'(.

]]>https://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/03/march/The Real Lifehttps://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/03/march/Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:03:00 GMTFebruary!According to the answer I got for an e-mail sent earlier this year to the guys at TypeMatrix, the TypeMatrix 2030 skins will be available this month…

]]>https://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/02/february/The Real Lifehttps://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/02/february/Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMTmake mayonnaiseToday was the second time I tried to make mayonnaise.

]]>https://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2008/11/make-mayonnaise/The Real Lifehttps://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2008/11/make-mayonnaise/Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:34:00 GMT