Sabbatical Diary: Weeks 11—12 / Month 3

Another two weeks gone, and suddenly we’re at the end of the Calendar Year.¹

Not an idle two weeks but not the most productive either. A lot of personal stuff—collecting the eldest from University, Christmas preparations and the like.

Some M.Phil. and Ph.D. application processing and candidate interviewing. Knowledge transfer from Amjad before he leaves. Made some corrections to a past blog post about Emacs eglot. A bit of time spent trying to get moving the two potential research projects that I didn’t anticipate: starting to fill out a funding application for one, chasing the University over some blocked industrial funding for the other.²

Initial meetings about the M.Phil. research project I’m supervising this year. Not strictly necessary due to the sabbatical, but the topic is bang on the second of the two research projects mentioned above. Building on Amjad’s work, the project will extend in two directions. First, determine whether his results can be ported to the sched_ext, a scheduler class where behaviours can be written using BPF. Second, for added painexcitement, do it on a Raspberry Pi as an example of a small(-ish) edge device with a different architecture.