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When I have to play with a container image I have never met before, I like to deploy it on a test cluster to poke and prod it. I usually did that on a k3s cluster, but recently I've moved to Minikube to bring my test cluster with me when I'm on the go. Minikube is a tiny one-node Kubernetes cluster…

In September 2025, I attended the LibreOffice Conference in Budapest, Hungary, on the 4th and the 5th, and a community meeting on the 3rd. Thanks to The Document Foundation (TDF) for sponsoring my travel and accommodation costs. The conference venue was Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd…

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 crowdfunding campaign. When we launched the GeoServer 3 crowdfunding initiative in September 2024, the goal was ambitious.…

After wrapping up a four-part series on free trade and the left, I thought I was done with neoliberalism. I had come to the conclusion that neoliberals were simply not serious people: instead of placing value in literally any human concern, they value only a network of trade, and as such, cannot…

The voting period and tally of votes for the Debian Project Leader election has just concluded, and the winner is Sruthi Chandran. Congratulations! 347 out of 1,039 Developers voted using the Condorcet method. More information about the results of the voting is available on the Debian Project Leader…

I recently released version 0.3.0 of my recipe manager application Kookbook – find it in git in KDE Invent or as released tarballs in https://download.kde.org/stable/kookbook/ Changes since last time is more or less “Minor bugfixes and a Qt6 port” – nothing as such noteworthy unless you aim to get…

Review: Surface Detail, by Iain M. Banks Publisher: Orbit Copyright: October 2010 Printing: May 2011 ISBN: 0-316-12341-2 Format: Trade paperback Pages: 627 Surface Detail is the ninth novel in Banks's Culture…

I needed my training to begin to peak in week 14. Quad Rock is in 20 days (at this writing), and I won't get much adaptation to workout loading in the last 13 days. Weeks 14 and 15 would be my last opportunities to get faster and stronger before the race. Fortunately, a return to good health and…

GeoServer 3.0-RC is now available, with downloads for ( bin, war ), along with docs and extensions. We are working with OSGeo for the windows installer download, and will update this post when it is available. Windows users are asked to test out the bin download while we wait. Release available as…

I am very happy to announce a new version of Casilda! A simple Wayland compositor widget for Gtk 4. This release comes with several new features, bug fixes and extra polish that it is making it start to feel like a proper compositor. It all started with a quick 1.2 release to port it to wlroots 0.19…

É oficial! É com muita alegria e entusiasmo que confirmo minha participação no FOSS4G 2026 em Hiroshima! 🇯🇵 Para quem não está familiarizado, o FOSS4G é o maior evento do mundo dedicado ao software livre geoespacial. Organizado pela OSGeo, é o lugar onde desenvolvedores, usuários e…

Review: Collision Course, by Michelle Diener Series: Class 5 #6 Publisher: Eclipse Copyright: November 2024 ISBN: 1-7637844-0-1 Format: Kindle Pages: 289 Collision Course is the sixth novel in the Class 5 science…

Week 13 started out pretty strong. I returned to my favorite Monday evening yoga class, did a fun run with strides at Pineridge on Tuesday, and then a hard running interval workout on Towers Trail in Horsetooth Open Space on Wednesday. Thursday I had cold symptoms again and shifted to dog walking…

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I was hosted for a long time, free of charge, on https://www.branchable.com/ by Joey and Lars. Branchable and Ikiwiki were wonderful ideas that never took off as much as they deserved. To avoid being a burden now that Branchable is nearing its end, I migrated to a VPS at Sakura. However, I have not…

If you have recently installed a very up-to-date Linux distribution with a desktop environment, or upgraded your system on a rolling-release distribution, you might have noticed that your home directory has a new folder: “Projects” Why? With the recent 0.20 release of xdg-user-dirs we enabled…

If you have recently installed a very up-to-date Linux distribution with a desktop environment, or upgraded your system on a rolling-release distribution, you might have noticed that your home directory has a new folder: “Projects” Why? With the recent 0.20 release of xdg-user-dirs we enabled the…

A while ago, CommBank started asking for MFA confirmation on its mobile app for every NetBank login on a browser. Previously, there was an option to use SMS for MFA, which isn’t as secure as I would like, but it was at least usable. Since I’m switching away from Android to Mobian and won’t be able…

Posted on April 18, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:cooking This post contains a bit of consumerism and is full of references to commercial products, none of which caused me to receive any money nor non-monetary compensation. This post has also…

Welcome to another update about everything that’s been happening at the GNOME Foundation. It’s been four weeks since my last post, due to a vacation and public holidays, so there’s lots to cover. This period included a major announcement, but there’s also been a lot of other notable work behind the…

Table of Contents Introduction The problem Architecture overview The VCL layer The POST-to-GET conversion Protecting private repositories The Lua layer Debugging the rollout How we got here Conclusions Introduction One of the most visible signs that GNOME’s infrastructure has grown over the years…

Prices On the 19th of March I got a home battery system installed. The government has a rebate scheme so it had a list price of about $22k for a 40kWh setup and cost me about $12k. It seems that 40KWh is the minimum usable size for the amount of electricity I use, I have 84 cores running BOINC when…

In our previous episode we wrote a merge sort implementation that runs a bit faster than the one in stdlibc++. The question then becomes, could it be made even faster. If you go through the relevant literature one potential improvement is to do a multiway merge. That is, instead of merging two…

It started with a thought: to understand people’s perspectives on life and its meaning. So I texted folks, “What is life (to you)?”. Each of the following list items (-) is a response from a different individual, mostly verbatim. - A lot - Everyone has a few universal basic qualities, and some…

What is the QGIS Sustainability Initiative? At OPENGIS.ch, we believe that the long-term health of the QGIS ecosystem depends on more than just adding new features. Critical work like bugfixing, code reviews, codebase maintenance, and quality assurance often goes unnoticed, yet it is essential to…