Need to finish off the slides for my continuous integration and delivery talk — or "keeping GNOME buildable" — in time for GUADEC…

The ReZEL Type-C (b Unit), from Gundam Unicorn. This was a complex build (took me 3 days) but also a fun and rewarding one. Definitely a steep curve up from my previous builds. Will keep tweaking the colours and the stickers.
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Finished the Gundam Barbatos "Lupus Rex", from Iron Blooded Orphans. The newer series of the Gundam canon are hit and miss, but their models are definitely more interesting to build.
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UK politics went from "pass me the booze" to "pass me the popcorn" in 5 minutes flat.

Bad error checking...
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Last weekend I went to the London MCM Comic-con and decided to start a new hobby: building Gundam plastic models. They are a solid feat of engineering: no glue, and complex articulations for posing and balancing. The white Bael gunpla took me about 5 hours to assemble; the red Zaku, about 3.5.
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Porting a bunch of libraries in the @gnome stack to Meson is a good way to realise how bad the autotools builds really are all across the board. Stuff that was cargo-culted 15 years ago; ad hoc hacks for long since dead platforms that probably worked for one release; hacks for making distcheck work at the last minute before the release deadline. If anything, just preparing to port to Meson is a good chance of doing some spring cleaning.