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KDE Asking for Donations
Why do we ask for donations so often? Because it’s important! As KDE becomes more successful and an increasing number of people use our software, our costs grow as well: Web and server hostin…
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Goodwatch – A Ham Radio Wristwatch (2020)
The GoodWatch is my replacement circuit board for Casio’s modern calculator watches, adding support for 70cm and 33cm amateur bands while retaining three years of battery life and most of the watch’s features. It uses the CC430F6147 chip from Texas Instruments, and the watchband forms an untuned random wire antenna…
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Writing a book in the age of open source
The power of engineering applied to writing
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Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS: Noble Numbat
Learn how Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS is built to empower open source developers and deliver innovation for the next 12 years. […]
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Towards userspaceification of POSIX – part I: signal handling and IO
The Redox official website
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The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Releasing my tools under the MIT License was probably a mistake (2023)
For basically as long as I can remember, I have been a staunch defender of permissive licenses over the more copyleft variety. I want you to use things I've written. On top of that I don't believe it's my place to force you to then open source things you have written that expand upon my source code. Hence my extensive…
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(Re)Using rustc components in gccrs
In order to speed up development, as well as make sure gccrs exposes the exact same behavior as rustc in critical compiler passes, we decided last year to start reusing components and crates from the official Rust compiler where possible. These components range from external crates used for certain nightly options to…
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Significant performance and correctness improvements to the kernel
The Redox official website
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Plausible Community Edition
We’re introducing the “free as in beer”, self-hosted and AGPL-licensed Plausible Community Edition (CE).
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XFCE 4.20 Released
After almost two years of work, we are happy to announce the release of Xfce 4.20.
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A retrospective on Requests
After writing my thoughts on github3.py down here, someone was asking about Python libraries that people recommend new Python developers read for learning how to structure code and use the packaging systems. My initial reaction was "Don't listen to folks that tell you to read python-requests as a good example." When…
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Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition
The previous iteration of this article was too technical, too long, and contained a lot of controversial points, so I've been thinking for a long time about rewriting it completely, making it accessible to the non-technical folks, and exposing the deeper core issues that still make Linux a questionable match for the…
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Identifying Software
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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Pine64 March update: making waves
Long awaited community update is here! Introducing PineVox and bone conduction headset (help us find a name!), IronOS progress, PineNote insights, and PineTime news! We also cover cluster failure, state of services, and the future of the community updates. See you in the upcoming Q&A!
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Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice
Power your open source project with Vercel platform credits, exclusive community support, and extra benefits.
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OpenBSD is a cozy operating system
With the recent release of OpenBSD 7.5, I decided to run through my personal OpenBSD “installer” for laptop/desktop devices. The project is built off of the dwm tiling window manager and only installs a few basic packages. The last time I updated it was with the release of 7.3, so it’s been due for an minor rework.
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OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with State Encryption, Dynamic Provider-defined Functions
OpenTofu 1.7.0 is now available with full state encryption, dynamic provider-defined functions, the removed and loopable import blocks, new migration guides, and much more.
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Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu"
Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.
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A new home for Python-build-standalone
Astral is taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for installing portable Python distributions.
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KDE Plasma 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 released
The KDE community proudly presents Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02
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Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap
Exploring different ways to make sense of OpenStreetMap data.
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FLTK 1.4 Released
Update (Nov. 18, 2024): FLTK 1.4.0-1 is a minor update that fixes a build error of a single test program (test/fltk-versions.cxx) on Windows (Visual Studio only). The FLTK library is not affected. End of Update
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PyPy v7.3.16
PyPy v7.3.16: release of python 2.7, 3.9, and 3.10 The PyPy team is proud to release version 7.3.16 of PyPy. This release includes security fixes from upstream CPython, and bugfixes to the garbage col
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NixOS is not reproducible
Okay, sorry for the clickbait. NixOS is not reproducible according to the Reproducible Builds definition. I keep reading people making this claim repeatedly on orange-site, even LWN.net made a similar claim when writing about Nix and Guix earlier this week.1 Along with their recently launched wiki. So, what is the…
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Fedora Atomic Desktops
Announcing a new family of Fedora Linux spins: Fedora Atomic. This will simplify how to discuss rpm-ostree and naming of future atomic spins.
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The end of Pepper&Carrot and my next project
Hey, I feel like I'm at a big crossroads and this is an important blog post, but you probably already guessed that from the title.