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Ports and adapters, also called hexagonal architecture, is the pattern I reach for when a system has rules worth protecting, and the pattern I refuse when it has none. This article is the map between those two cases. If you have read Hexagon of Doom, you know the other half of the argument: on…

Discover Lutra Consulting's highlights from the QGIS User Conference 2026 in Laax, Switzerland. Explore our talks on QGIS 3D, point clouds, Mergin Maps, and more!

I read Ruben Schade's notes on underlining and wanted to add more, as adding a border-bottom and leaving at that seemed incomplete to me.ModernOf course, you could just use the modern choice. Here, I've shortened what Schade uses into one line of CSS (because I can). As noted, this is a fairly new…

This year’s edition of International Calligraphy Festival Keralam was yet another great experience, consisting of workshops, demonstrations and talks surrounding calligraphy & typography, much like the last time. Eminent calligraphers of about a dozen scripts shared their expertise and…

Week 33 This week's icon is for Tau Gärtli's project: Ripples: "Rip CDs" Check out all weekly app icons created so far in the gallery and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including sketches) on the…

Developers suck at writing documentation. We like to say RTFM but often there ain't no FM to R. At best we have a half-arsed collection of notes, some obsolete tips, and a link to a desolate forum full of people asking the same questions again and again. That's no way to treat our users. I naïvely…

Review: Daggerbound, by T. Kingfisher Series: Swordheart #2 Publisher: Bramble Copyright: 2026 ISBN: 1-250-40009-0 Format: Kindle Pages: 436 Daggerbound is a secondary-world fantasy and a sequel to Swordheart,…

Welcome to the latest edition of This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty! This blog series covers the work done throughout KDE’s software stack that’s funded by the investment KDE received earlier this year from Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency. Commissioned work on a variety of projects has been…

KML is map data written as XML; a KMZ is the zipped form. Open it in Google Earth or QGIS, find attributes hidden in HTML, convert to Shapefile, CSV or GeoJSON.

6,041 bike crashes in Paris mapped three ways in QGIS: Heatmap renderer, kernel density raster and hexagons, then one sentence to an AI agent: 2 min 34 s.

Over one Pyrenean valley, four free 30 m DEMs sat 12 to 18 m above the LiDAR ground under forest. Where to get each DEM free, and how to load it in QGIS.

Microsoft matched 25% of a French town's cadastre buildings, OpenStreetMap 83%. Then Nairobi: five free sources, timed downloads, checked on drone imagery.

One story is 3.07 m (10.1 ft) floor to floor at the median. Heights for 1 to 12 stories: a 5-story building stands 16.2 m (53 ft), a 10-story one 27 m (89 ft).

For this post, I wanted to talk about two different approaches to handling supertraits. I’m calling them modular proofs vs external proofs. The key idea of this post is that, if we want to have cyclic trait impls, we really need to use a modular proof strategy, where the impl establishes all…

Great news for the community! The integration of QML Quick Editor into Qt Creator is now 100% complete. The plugin is officially available, bringing native workflow integration directly to your development environment. Give it a try, and let us know what you think! Features: Designed as an…

I'll be radically honest here - I never really got the idea of "Test Driven Development". I'm much more of a "telnet into production and damn the consequences" kind of guy. Look, it's much more fun and my cardiologist recommends severe shocks every now and again. The essence of unit testing is…

For over ten years, the only way I have had of knowing what our solar panels are doing has been an impulse monitor on the generation meter, counting the flashes of its LED. It has always been a bit flaky due to battery changes or loose connections, and there has never been a way to see solar…

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, Plasma contributors put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.8, which is due to be released early next week, on October 14th. A lot of the work was behind the scenes, and that’s why this week’s update may look a bit light. But nevertheless,…

A brand new release 0.1.16 of the RcppSimdJson package is now on CRAN, has been built for r2u, and is updated on r-universe. RcppSimdJson wraps the fantastic and genuinely impressive simdjson library by Daniel Lemire and collaborators. Via very clever algorithmic engineering to obtain largely…

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from October 2 to October 9. GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries Brage Fuglseth reports This week Concessio was accepted into GNOME Circle. Concessio helps you understand and convert between unix permissions representations.…

There was a time I'd look at a board like the Radxa Dragon Q8B (at left, above) and be like, "there's no way I'd spend $209 on an SBC with 8 gigs of RAM". But we're in 2026, and seeing the 8 gig Raspberry Pi 5 going for almost the same amount, I figured I'd give it a shot. On paper, the Q8B beats…

Earlier this year, two years after AMD engineers contributed packages the HIP/ROCm stack to the Guix-HPC channels, Guix developers migrated the whole HIP/ROCm stack into Guix proper, starting with version 7.1.1. This was quite a milestone as it makes HIP/ROCm first-class citizens and gives them…

New release of Firefox DevTools MCP. Available on npm at https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mozilla/firefox-devtools-mcp Fixed set_firefox_prefs and get_firefox_prefs work again. They now use WebDriver BiDi to run in the privileged context list_pages no longer fails when the URL or title of a tab…

I wanted to start this post with saying September was a bit of a slower month, as I was on vacation for a good chunk of it, but turns out that still quit some things happened Nautilus The pathbar completion improvements I mentioned in the last post landed. Completions are now reused when in the…

London's musical entertainment scene has something for everyone - from long-running blockbuster shows to no-name bands in dingy basements. Somewhere in the middle is monophonic plainchant versions of the Halo theme sung in a church. The acoustics at St Martin in the Field are echoey. That makes it…