La versión 2.7 de gvSIG Desktop incluye una mejora muy interesante en los mapas, que es la de poder personalizar los cajetines. Hasta las versiones anteriores, solo permitía insertar un cajetín con un número de filas y de columnas concretas, donde todas tenían el mismo tamaño, por lo que la única…
read more ➔May 13th, 2026 My name is Laureen Caliman, and I am a contributor for GNOME Crosswords with Google Summer of Code 2026. Crosswords are a stimulating challenge that promotes engagement in education. Computing systems are now an indelible factor of daily life, which has raised concerns on maintaining…
read more ➔SRFI 272 is now in draft status. This SRFI follows the traditional Scheme model of pretty printing, which treats it as a process distinct from general controlled formatting. While general-purpose formatters often prioritize specialized presentation at the expense of machine-readability,…
read more ➔I am delighted to announce that I am returning for Google Summer of Code 2026 to contribute to GNOME once again. Following my work on Crosswords last year, I will be shifting focus to the core of the desktop: Mutter. For what it’s worth, I never left; I’ve been working with Jonathan to improve…
read more ➔QGIS Camp España 2026 es solo posible gracias al esfuerzo de las empresas e instituciones. Si estás interesado en patrocinar el evento puedes descargarte nuestra guía para patrocinadores
read more ➔Location: Remote, preferably with at least 4h overlap to CEST office hours Employment Type: Full-time (80-100%) About OPENGIS.ch: OPENGIS.ch is a team of Full-Stack GeoNinjas offering personalized open-source geodata solutions to Swiss and international clients. We are dedicated to…
read more ➔We are excited to announce the release of Hoot 0.9.0! Hoot is a Scheme to WebAssembly compiler backend for Guile, as well as a general purpose WebAssembly toolchain. In other words, Scheme in the browser! This release contains new features and bug fixes and since the 0.8.0 release back in…
read more ➔A sparkline is a little line-graph with no axes or other unnecessary details. They're useful for getting quick understanding of what the data is showing. They're also really easy to create programmatically. This uses the SVG "polyline" which takes a list of x,y co-ordinate pairs. But can you…
read more ➔From 14th - 17th April, I was fortunate to be able to attend GISRUK 2026, at the University of Birmingham. GISRUK is a regular feature in my calendar and it’s a great opportunity to see what is happening in the world of GIS Research, catch-up with old colleagues and make new connections. For me,…
read more ➔By Greg Stein, Apache Software Foundation Member and STeVe Contributor Every year, roughly 800 members of the Apache® Software Foundation cast votes to elect a Board of Directors, admit new members, and decide the direction of one of the oldest and most important institutions in open source. No…
read more ➔Last year I said I'd probably never recommend another Bambu Lab printer again. I still use my P1S, but after Bambu Lab started pushing their always-connected cloud solution as the new default: I blocked the printer from the Internet via my OPNsense Firewall I stopped updating the firmware I locked…
read more ➔La agrupación formada por ENXEÑERÍA FORESTAL ASEFOR, S.L., FINANCIERAMADERERA S.A., FORTOP TOPOGRAFÍA S.L.U. y GEOMATICO S. COOP.GALEGA. ha obtenido apoyo en el marco de la convocatoria NEXOS 2025,promovida por la Axencia Galega de Innovación, para el desarrollo del proyectoCUBia: Cubicación…
read more ➔Last summer I wrote up Octopus Agile Prices For Linux, a small GTK app to show the current Octopus Agile electricity price and the next day of half-hourly rates. It did one thing, which is a good number of things for a desktop utility to do. Since then the app has become a bit less narrow. But it…
read more ➔WordPress has the concept of "Featured Images". They are the images which show up when you share a blog post on social media or, on some themes, as the "hero" image. How can you quickly and easily find any posts which don't have a featured image? For this, I use WP CLI - it allows you to run…
read more ➔A tutorial on searching, streaming, visualizing, and downloading NASA Earth observation data inside QGIS using the NASA Earthdata plugin and OpenGeoAgent for natural-language and voice workflows.
read more ➔Psssst! This top secret post is only available to RSS subscribers! As a little thank-you for being a member of RSS Club I thought I'd show you some trailers for upcoming blog posts. I use the brilliant Editorial Calendar Plugin to organise all my scheduled blog posts. Here's what you can expect…
read more ➔A tutorial on using OpenGeoAgent with the QGIS Timelapse plugin to generate Landsat, MODIS, GOES, and Esri Wayback timelapse animations from natural language and voice prompts.
read more ➔This has an excellent narrative structure, some beautiful prose, and I just didn't enjoy it. The story is Sliding Doors meets Same Time Next Year mixed with a distressing amount of domestic violence. A mother faces a difficult choice. Should she name her child after her abusive and violent…
read more ➔Here’s a comparison between the three pixel/sprite/tile making apps I could find on F-Droid. I know there’s stuff in that vein on Varvara, but I haven’t figured out a good way to run Varvara apps on Android yet, especially in a way where I could get files in and out. (Definitively still interested…
read more ➔Apple introduced the HomePod mini six years ago, in 2020. I'm not one into smart speakers, but the feature that made me take a closer look was their ability to form stereo pairs, without any direct wired connection. I know there are other speaker manufacturers with wireless speakers, but to my…
read more ➔The schedule for Community Over Code Glasgow 2026 is live, with an expansive program: 168 sessions across 18 tracks, spanning four days in October. Whether you’re running infrastructure at hyperscale, modernizing a fintech stack, or trying to figure out what responsible AI governance actually looks…
read more ➔A few weeks ago, I went on a mad quest to find the newspaper used in 1995's Bottom Hole TV show. During the episode, Eddie starts reading this newspaper: Obviously, the "Hammersmith Bugle" is not a real paper and they never ran a headline "No News Shocker". But judging from all the other shots,…
read more ➔While Guile Scheme has a lot of hidden gems, like (ice-9 peg), parsing command line arguments is not one of its strengths in my opinion. Even if there are many powerful approaches to structured argument parsing, there is no API simple enough for me to know it by heart (as opposed for example to…
read more ➔Catching air in the middle of the deep-dive on Scheme bytecode interpreters.
read more ➔Java 17, Jakarta EE 10, Spring 6—and a thousand dominoes By: Jinwoo HwangLead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0https://JinwooHwang.com This post is divided into three parts. Part I explains why Apache Geode 2.0 matters. Part II walks through how it was modernized. Stay…
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