Highlights Want some Kit? Check out the store! Sebastian Zartner [:sebo] added a panel to expose @media emulation (#1692434) and provided a way to emulate @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) (#1477920) More theme controls have been added to the New Tab customization panel: Improved…
read more ➔I recently posted about the build of my “A Pint Near Me” app. When I had finished the build I asked Claude “Can you give me a few interesting stats from the pubs data?” The most 5 common names? How many single name pubs (ie not repeated)? Any regional patterns in naming? Anything…
read more ➔A while after I blogged about my Pub Density Map it got picked up by Hacker News and the map got a big spike in views. Some of the comments were complaints that a pub was missing or that the pubs data was not searchable, some were less helpful. I had used the Open Pubs data from GetTheData, which in…
read more ➔UPSes are typically the most boring part of your homelab, but they're important. One of their main jobs is to give servers time to shut down safely if the power goes out. Another job is to condition your power so your servers can run smoothly. To do both of those things well, you need a smart…
read more ➔A function's return type is supposed to indicate the kind of data that it produces. Rust's "never" type, which is denoted by an exclamation mark ("!"), is the type the language uses to mark a function that never returns and other places where a value can never occur. For a long time, the never…
read more ➔Version 12 of the Jellyfin media-management system has been released. Notable changes include database performance improvements, an upgrade to FFmpeg 8.1 for media transcoding, as well as better handling of book and comic media. See the release notes for the web client and server for a full list of…
read more ➔Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (expat, git-lfs, grafana-pcp, kernel-rt, python3.14-cryptography, redis:6, skopeo, and xmlrpc-c), Debian (jbig2dec and strongswan), Fedora (baresip, chirp, chromium, corosync, emacs, GitPython, libre, libsoup3, nsd, perl-Net-OAuth, and perl-XML-Bare),…
read more ➔Here's a problem that I've found with ActivityBot - my little ActivityPub server. Sometimes it receives messages which were originally sent months ago. Why does that happen and is it risky to accept and process them? My tl;dr is that it probably isn't worth worrying about. But I'd love someone to…
read more ➔The next version of QField is here. While this time of the year is a well-deserved holiday period for many, we’ve dedicated ourselves to improving the stability and refining of your favorite field mapping tool. We’re calling this effort the “summer of stability”, a sprint we will undertake on a…
read more ➔I tagged v0.0.11 last night. Or this morning. I’ve stopped keeping track of which side of midnight things happen on. Most of what’s in this tag I already went on about on Monday, in the weekly update: the harp swapping, the Guitar Pro files, the pitch detectors that turn out not to hear chords.…
read more ➔Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.7.5. Plasma 6.7 was released in June 2026 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds a month’s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are…
read more ➔The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.7.0rc2! Best Served with PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 , GEOS 3.15.0 , postgis_tiger_geocoder 2025.2 , and address_standardizer. This version requires PostgreSQL 14 - 19beta3, GEOS 3.10 or higher, Proj 6.1+, and libgmp. To take advantage of all features, GEOS…
read more ➔We are excited to announce the first release of Guix-Science channel: v20260907.
read more ➔The European Laboratory for Particle Physics, usually just called CERN, is not only the birthplace of the World Wide Web, it is home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. As such, its computing environment is both truly unique and of great…
read more ➔Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.4, 6.18.50, and 6.12.109 stable kernels. Each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.
read more ➔The restartable sequences feature is one of the stranger corners of the kernel's user-space interface; it provides a way for user space to carry out simple lockless operations and be informed if it is preempted over the course of an operation (and must, thus, restart). Work merged in the 6.19…
read more ➔Version 2026.08 of the Buildroot embedded Linux system builder has been released. Buildroot 2026.08 includes nearly 1,000 changes from 100 contributors; some of the notable changes include support for Linux 7.1.x, Binutils 2.46.1, GCC 16.2.0, glibc 2.44, as well as adding the M68K and IBM Power…
read more ➔Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, freerdp, gegl04, go-fdo-client, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, and pipewire), Debian (aom, chromium, libde265, libssh2, thunderbird, and tryton-server), Fedora (chromium, composer, cosmic-greeter, gegl04, greetd, ibus-table, jss, libheif,…
read more ➔The Asahi Linux project has announced that support for Apple's M3-series chips has been added to the Asahi installer. Linux support for M3 series SoCs and the machines powered by them is now in a state where almost everything supported on the M1 and M2 series machines just works. This includes the…
read more ➔I’m getting old (though, not as old as the image below), and I miss the good old days when using Linux was more difficult, but when every system in a Linux desktop session was simple. Excalibur (1981) This was before polkit, systemd, … Even before DBus and PulseAudio. All of these systems are…
read more ➔Gwenview has been KDE’s flagship image viewer for over 25 years. It works, it’s feature-packed, and it’s been modernized repeatedly. Gwenview has served generations of KDE users faithfully and well. So… why build a replacement?</ Well, over the years Gwenview has fallen behind in some areas that…
read more ➔The 7.3-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: This didn't *feel* like a particularly busy rc2, but it clearly was. rc2 is usually the quietest time when people take a breather after the merge window and it takes a while to start finding bugs. But not this time - this is a "full…
read more ➔Hello again! A few weeks ago, I wrote about the work I've been doing this summer adding Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) support to GJS as part of Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026. If you haven't read that post, start there for the background on what GJS and DAP are and why this matters. As my GSoC is…
read more ➔This is a weekly update, which means I did a week of things and now I’m going to tell you about them, and I should say up front that most of the week went on two problems that sound small when you write them down. You had to own the exact harmonica a chart was written for. And the chart had to be in…
read more ➔One of the biggest challenges Rust developers report in our annual surveys is a subpar debugging experience. So, back in February, we ran our first Rust Debugging Survey, in the hopes of identifying how Rust developers are using debuggers and what problems they are facing when doing so. We received…
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