Welp, I'm joining the ranks of the unemployed tech workers again. As before, I'm in a good situation. I don't depend on my former employer for health insurance. I've got some severance and savings, my family is in good health, we have a roof over our heads, and I have good connections. I don't feel…
read more ➔A few years back I did a quick exploration of what GNOME app icons might look like in an alternate universe where we kept on using VGA displays. Chiselling pixels away is therapeutic. So while there is absolutely no use for these, I keep on making them if only to bring some attention to what really…
read more ➔If you work with patches and git am, then you’re probably used to seeing patches fail to apply. For example: $ git am CVE-2025-14512.patch Applying: gfileattribute: Fix integer overflow calculating escaping for byte strings error: patch failed: gio/gfileattribute.c:166 error: gio/gfileattribute.c:…
read more ➔For years, the best way to get 10 gigabit networking on laptops was to buy an expensive, large, and hot 10 GbE Thunderbolt adapter. With new RTL8159-based 10G USB 3.2 adapters coming onto the market, the bulky adapters might be a thing of the past. Just look at the size of the thing in comparison to…
read more ➔I was excited to see Bilal’s announcement of goblint, and I’ve spent the past week getting Crosswords to work with it. This is a tool I’ve always wanted and I’m pretty convinced it will be a great boon for the GNOME ecosystem. I’m posting my notes in hope that more people try it out: First and most…
read more ➔Hello, my name is Sean Gillies, and this is my blog. I write about running, cooking and eating, gardening, travel, family, programming, Python, API design, geography, geographic data formats and protocols, open source, and internet standards. Fort Collins, Colorado, is my home. Email me with…
read more ➔The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for March. Activity summary During the month of March, 20 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located…
read more ➔Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 17 to April 24. GNOME Core Apps and Libraries Libadwaita ↗ Building blocks for modern GNOME apps using GTK4. Alice (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🏳/a> says libadwaita demo runs on android now, and apk files can be grabbed from CI Alice…
read more ➔Filter map features by field values in the Mergin Maps mobile app. Set up in QGIS, use in the field.
read more ➔Hello there, You thought I’d given up on “status update” blog posts, did you ? I haven’t given up, despite my better judgement, this one is just even later than usual. Recently I’ve been using my rather obscure platform as a blogger to theorize about AI and the future of the tech industry, mixed…
read more ➔It’s a question I had to ask myself multiple times over the last few months. Depending on the context the answer can be: very simple, just call the standard library function extremely hard, don’t trust anything If you are an app developer, you’re lucky and it’s almost always the first answer. If…
read more ➔Leonardo and I are happy to announce another maintenance release 0.1.4 of our dtts package which has been on CRAN for four years now. dtts builds upon our nanotime package as well as the beloved data.table to bring high-performance and high-resolution indexing at the nanosecond level to data frames.…
read more ➔Over the past few weeks I’ve been developing and using a personal command-line tool called gwt (Git Worktree) to manage Git repositories using worktrees. This article explains what the tool does, how it evolved, and how I used GitHub Copilot CLI to develop it (in fact the idea of building the script…
read more ➔We want to share some updates we have made on the QGIS Plugin Repository. In January 2026 we shared QEP 409. The proposal seeks to improve the general working practices with QGIS plugins, adding some optional and some mandatory checks to every plugin that gets published in the QGIS plugin repo. This…
read more ➔Another minor update 0.3.14 for our nanotime package is now on CRAN, and has compiled for r2u (and will have to wait to be uploaded to Debian until dependency bit64 has been updated there). nanotime relies on the RcppCCTZ package (as well as the RcppDate package for additional C++ operations) and…
read more ➔Vertical rhythm aligns lines to a consistent spacing cadence down the page. It creates a predictable flow for the eye to follow. Thanks to the rlh CSS unit, vertical rhythm is now easier to implement for text.1 But illustrations and tables can disrupt the layout. The amateur typographer in me wants…
read more ➔La versión 2.7 de gvSIG Desktop incluye una nueva herramienta que permite convertir coordenadas entre distintos sistemas de referencia, que facilita por ejemplo el poder buscar coordenadas de puntos que se tienen en un sistema diferente al de la vista desde la propia aplicación, y no tener que…
read more ➔GeoServer 3.0-RC is here GeoServer 3.0-RC is now available , and with it we can celebrate something bigger than a release candidate! This milestone is the concrete outcome of a successful community cr...
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read more ➔Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use, has a syntax deliberately close to Matlab, and is useful for algorithm development directly in C++, or quick conversion of research…
read more ➔In the past I have written many blog posts on implementing various PDF features in CapyPDF. Typically they explain the feature being implemented, how confusing the documentation is, what perverse undocumented quirks one has to work around to get things working and so on. To save the effort of me…
read more ➔Lomiri Codefest in Tilburg NL (May 16-17 2026) Just a quick invitation to an in-person event in Tilburg, the Netherlands. All people interested in the Lomiri Operating Environment are invited to join us at the Lomiri Codefest [codefest] taking place on May 16-17 (participation is free of…
read more ➔How to view the Debian Upload Queue Some people may not know this, but the Debian Upload Queue is public and very easy to access: $ curl ftp://ftp.upload.debian.org/pub/UploadQueue/ drwxr-sr-x 18 1518 1281 4096 Jun 26 2019 DELAYED -rw-r--r-- 1 1518 1281 3442 Jul 14 …
read more ➔Se você já trabalha com dados geoespaciais, provavelmente domina análise. Mas deixa eu te provocar: Você sabe transformar isso em uma solução acessível na web? Porque existe uma diferença enorme entre: Gerar mapas E entregar uma plataforma que outras pessoas realmente usam E é exatamente aí que…
read more ➔FBReader After my previous blog post about eBook readers in Debian [1] a reader recommended FBReader. I tried it and it’s now my favourite reader. It works nicely on laptop and phone and takes significantly less RAM than Calibre or Arianna (especially important for phones). While the problems with…
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