Author: Michael Opdenacker

  • Make it Stick book review

    Make it Stick book review

    I’ve finished reading a very insightful book about learning and teaching: Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Marc A. McDaniel at Harvard University Press. I am very grateful to Michael Estner for recommending this book to me. I feel it is now my turn to promote it.

  • Yocto Binary Distributions presentation

    Yocto Binary Distributions presentation

    Here are the slides of the “Building and Maintaining Binary Distributions with the Yocto Project” presentation I gave at the Embedded Linux Conference in Vienna. The abstract I submitted is a good way to describe my presentation: Imagine a world in which you can try the Yocto Project without even using it. This was possible…

  • Digital Hygiene presentation

    Digital Hygiene presentation

    Here’s a presentation I prepared for high school students in my area, but which actually targets any computer and smartphone user. Here are the main topics: The presentation is available in English and in French.

  • Writing a new story

    Writing a new story

    LinkedIn posts quickly fade out from view and may not last forever. Here is a copy of my most successful post in 2024. Last Friday was my last day at Bootlin, the company which I created 20 years ago. Bootlin is in good hands now, and has become a great contributor to many Open Source…