Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team continued to polish up Plasma 6.8, fixing many bugs. Most of the regressions reported in Plasma 6.8 have been resolved now, so the team moved onto older bugs and squashed a very large number of them! In addition, there are some…
read more ➔From raster to histogram Visualisation is a key part of any analysis. It is useful not only at the end, when presenting the results, but also throughout the analysis itself. A quick plot can help you interpret intermediate results and decide what to do next. R and Python offer excellent tools for…
read more ➔Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from October 23 to October 30. GNOME Fellowship Sophie (she/her) says GNOME RFC Process, many fixes in glycin, CMYK images in Loupe, and more: Learn about my work in October as part of the GNOME Fellowship. GNOME Core Apps and…
read more ➔In the previous post we looked at a simple multithreaded task executor that behaves roughly like its Python standard library counterpart. The biggest missing feature was being able to return values from run tasks via future objects. In a fully dynamic language like Python this is fairly…
read more ➔I have a Samsung Q800A soundbar. It ships with built-in support for the Apple Airplay protocol, but I’m not really an Apple kind of guy so that’s never been particularly helpful for me. So, instead, I have a Chromecast Audio plugged into it via TOSLINK, and that works fine - except for the fact that…
read more ➔Haruna version 1.9.0 is released. If you like Haruna then support its development GitHub Sponsors Liberapay PayPal Download Windows version: haruna-1.9.0-windows-mingw-x86_64.exe haruna-1.9.0-windows-mingw-x86_64.7z Availability of other package formats depends on your distro and the people…
read more ➔The GNOME Foundation is supporting contributors with its fellowship program. You can help expand the fellowship program with a donation. After the release of GNOME 51 in the previous month, this month was the time were people noticed the first regressions and bugs. Hence, a lot of work went into bug…
read more ➔There will never be a leap second again. At least not for UTC. At the CGPM, they decided the last leap second we'll ever see for UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time, happened back at the end of 2016. Of course they made that decision while I was out on vacation, so I'm just getting this video up…
read more ➔I did not care for this one bit. I found it cloying, infantilising, and far too circuitous. It starts off as a bit of an overwritten melodrama, where every phrase is a delicious flower waiting to bloom, but ends up being a over-sugared mess with a rotten heart. Parts are just exhausting to read,…
read more ➔What's new in openEO: real zeros, cleaner masks and better merges
read more ➔Copernicus Sentinel-3B unavailability notice for OOP manoeuvre planned on 29/10/2026 [DOY 302]
read more ➔Copernicus Sentinel-1D Data Unavailability on 28 October 2026
read more ➔Temporary rollback of the Sentinel-1 processor
read more ➔The name of the game in agentic development is figuring out how to clearly tell agents what you want– and then how to be sure they follow through. Lately I’ve been tinkering with an interesting technique around this that I’d like to share.1 I call it “trust but verify”2. The basic idea is that…
read more ➔Last weekend I joined the OSM Hack Weekend at Wikimedia Deutschland’s office in Berlin, mainly to work on a few Transitous-related topics. OSM Hack Weekend at Wikimedia Deutschland (source) Schedule data augmentation One topic we wanted to move forward was how Transitous can…
read more ➔The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of the latest maintenance version of GeoTools 33.7: geotools-33.7-bin.zip geotools-33.7-doc.zip geotools-33.7-userguide.zip geotools-33.7-project.zip This release is also available from the OSGeo Maven Repository and is made in…
read more ➔The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of the latest stable version of GeoTools 35.1: geotools-35.1-bin.zip geotools-35.1-doc.zip geotools-35.1-userguide.zip geotools-35.1-project.zip This release is also available from the OSGeo Maven Repository and is made in conjunction…
read more ➔I never liked racing "sims" like Gran Turismo. So realistic! You can bounce off the guardrails like in a pinball. Grid on the other hand was a fantastic "arcade" racer with a brilliant damage model where mistakes were punished. And the camera work! And music. Boy, that was such a treat! Nostalgia…
read more ➔The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.7.0! Best Served with PostgreSQL 19 RC 1 , GEOS 3.15.0 , postgis_tiger_geocoder 2025.2 , and address_standardizer. This version requires GEOS 3.10+, PostgreSQL 14-19, Proj 6.1+, and libgmp. To take advantage of all postgis extension features, GEOS…
read more ➔The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of the latest maintenance version of GeoTools 34.6: geotools-34.6-bin.zip geotools-34.6-doc.zip geotools-34.6-userguide.zip geotools-34.6-project.zip This release is also available from the OSGeo Maven Repository and is made in…
read more ➔The GeoTools team is pleased to announce the release of the latest stable version of GeoTools 35.2: geotools-35.2-bin.zip geotools-35.2-doc.zip geotools-35.2-userguide.zip geotools-35.2-project.zip This release is also available from the OSGeo Maven Repository and is made in conjunction…
read more ➔SRFI 279 is now in final status. Interactive REPL-driven systems (that most Schemes are) need a way to get detailed information on a given piece of data. Inspectors, as these are conventionally called. This SRFI defines a basic protocol for inspectors, consisting of three procedures: …
read more ➔Doug Greenfield posted his Map of the Week – Map of the 100 Famous Views of Edo saying “The Wikipedia listing has a table listing each print with an image, title and geographic coordinates. Somebody with more time and better programming skills could make a nice interactive map from this table with…
read more ➔Somewhere in our struggles for ideological superiority we lost track, got lost, forgot about the essence of community. "We shouldn't worry about the young" is a call for self-reflection and change of course, back to our roots.
read more ➔Copernicus Sentinel-3B unavailability notice for Lunar Calibration planned on 29/10/2026 [DOY 302]
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