E.P. Unny is a notable Indian political cartoonist, who worked/works with famed Shankar’s Weekly and new papers such as The Hindu and Indian Express. Since 2020, all his cartoons (also 2025, 2026 so far) are published — every week — open-access by <ayahna Foundation. Unny was using a font…
read more ➔Thanks to Mario Ame Everything was working fine. I had just finished building the Grow Your Own allotments map, deployed it to the live server, and was feeling pretty pleased with myself. A few days later a friend messaged me that the map had stopped working. No regions, just a blank basemap.…
read more ➔A new minor release 0.4.27 of RQuantLib, the first in over a year, arrived on CRAN a couple of minutes ago, has just now been uploaded to Debian, and is being built for r2u as well. QuantLib is a rather comprehensice free/open-source library for quantitative finance. RQuantLib connects (some parts…
read more ➔I finally carved out some time today to prepare and release debsecan-mcp v0.1.2 to PyPI. During this release, I integrated PyPI's trusted publisher mechanism, which authenticates directly via GitHub Actions and eliminates the need for manual uploads or static API tokens. What is New? There are no…
read more ➔Dear digiKam fans and users, After three months of active development, bug triage, and feature integration, the digiKam team is proud to announce the stable release of digiKam 9.1.0. This version builds on the foundation of 9.0.0, introducing new features, performance improvements, and a significant…
read more ➔So… more Oxygen icons <ip> This weekend I been filling some of the more obvious holes in the icon set and recently these 2 landed. The first one is for KeepSecret, the application that is replacing the old KWallet. Security icons are funny. There are only so many ways to draw "keep…
read more ➔The second maintenance release of the 26.04 series is out with the usual batch of bug fixes and improvements for workflow and stability. This update comes with fixes to rendering, timeline editing, project file handling, and Windows, MacOS, AppImage and Flatpak packaging. One noteworthy bug closed…
read more ➔Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me…
read more ➔As in previous years, This Week in GNOME and this entire month are dedicated to the joys and struggles of all two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, inter, pan, asexual, aromantic, and non-binary people. We celebrate the invaluable work and life of all 2SLGBTQIA+ contributors and users, across…
read more ➔--> --> Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the team continued polishing Plasma 6.7 for its release later in the month. As such, this week saw mostly bug fixing. Notable UI improvements Plasma 6.7 Hovering over a partially-visible item in the Kickoff Application Launcher…
read more ➔The current outbreak of Ebola has inevitably triggered lots of maps of the outbreak, just search for “Maps of the Ebola outbreak in Africa” and you will find something like this. Some of these are pretty good, some don’t communicate very well and a few are awful. My attention was drawn to a…
read more ➔Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-23. “But it happened.” Tags: tech, google, attention-economy, business Good point, the booing on Eric Schimidt’s commencement speech is likely not just about him talking about AI at some point. You see, the man has very heavy baggage… He’s one of the…
read more ➔Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every one. But what are they good for? You can use Remote Desktop, Screen Sharing, or VNC to remote control a computer from anywhere on a LAN. And if you don't have a private VPN, you could use RealVNC,…
read more ➔What is it? Bleach is a Python library for sanitizing and linkifying text from untrusted sources for safe usage in HTML. Bleach v6.4.0 released! Bleach 6.4.0 includes two security fixes, a fix to tinycss2 dependency requirements, and some other things. See the changes…
read more ➔I’ve been using Fedora Silverblue on my desktop and laptop for the past, what, five years? Silverblue is Fedora’s main atomic variant, a spiritual counterpart to Fedora Workstation. I also make niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. In other words, a core system component that you cannot…
read more ➔Do not let the AI to remove the fun part from software development. We shouldn't allow gen AI to write software just because it "can". First, we must ask if it "should" do it, and even then, we should ask if we want to delegate the fun part, the thinking, the writing, the learning. Remember what's…
read more ➔Ticketverkoop voor Foss4G-NL 2026 (8/9 juli in Groningen) gestart Sinds gisteren zijn ook voor de workshops op de FOSS4G-NL (op 8 juli) de tickets te koop. Voor de conferentie dag op 9 juli waren ze dat al, maar nu kun je dus in één keer je slag slaan voor 2 leuke & leerzame dagen. Ga naar…
read more ➔Hello Reader! In case you don't know me (quite likely 😆), I am Ojas Maheshwari (@the_epicman:matrix.org) and I am currently working in the Google Summer of Code program for the KDE community on a project about Font Subsetting in Poppler under my mentor Albert Astals Cid. Community Bonding If I am…
read more ➔Apache® Livy, a REST service for Apache Spark™, becomes a Top-Level Project Wilmington, DE –  June 4, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apachy Livy has become a Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache Livy is…
read more ➔My mate Lisa has written a book! Along with her pal Matisse, she takes us through the practicalities of publishing communications which are accessible to all. This isn't just about the theory - it takes us across multiple legal jurisdictions, ethical frameworks, and business cases. Once it is done…
read more ➔A structured logging framework for Guile Scheme “Scriba is a structured logging library for GNU Guile that prioritizes flexibility and observability. It provides modular log routing, formatting, and filtering, allowing developers to generate human-readable console logs during development…
read more ➔I love adaptive interfaces and technology that blends in more than the average human. I’ve spent literally years tinkering with ‘frecency’ ordered lists, bought a meural screen and have recently been glorying in the fantastic GNOME Adaptive Brightness. On that last point, whilst GNOME already has…
read more ➔Highlights James enabled adaptive autofill in Nightly for testing, which we believe should provide better results in the URL bar when doing autocomplete! Jack updated the illustrations shown on some of our error pages to match the latest approved designs, giving users more polished artwork when the…
read more ➔It has been sixteen years since the launch of data.london.gov.uk. Back then, it was a trailblazer as one of the first major cities to release Open Data in this way. Now, over a decade later, it is more than a mere repository; it is a celebration of Open Data and the way it can improve Londoners'…
read more ➔Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thisweekinrust.bsky.social on Bluesky or @ThisWeekinRust…
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