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Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were more globally known. Here's the thing. No. All my blog posts start with a simple…

Después de ver cómo conectar servicios remotos, en este quinto vídeo entramos en el Administrador de complementos, la herramienta que permite ampliar la suite con paquetes adicionales: nuevos formatos de datos, librerías de símbolos, geoprocesos, conectores a servicios remotos, etc. El vídeo…

When you log into a service you’re given an authentication token. Each further request to the site includes that token, allowing the server to figure out who you are and ensuring that you have access to your data. Depending on site policy, this token may either be stored in memory (and so vanish if…

When you log into a service you’re given an authentication token. Each further request to the site includes that token, allowing the server to figure out who you are and ensuring that you have access to your data. Depending on site policy, this token may either be stored in memory (and so vanish if…

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Xsnow protestware; Git 2.55; Rhombus; kernel hardening; More LSFMM+BPF coverage; 7.2 merge window; Secure Boot certificate expiration; Ceph and Garage; OSPM 2026. Briefs: Akrites; Mageia 10; Git 2.55.0; Podman 6.0;…

Posted on July 2, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear Many months ago I had been ordering some furniture from IKEA1 and on one of those orders I got tempted by a hair towel wrap: it mostly worked as an idea, but it was too short…

Hello GNOME, This is a progress report on the Pitivi Timeline Ruler Rust rewrite. Progress We are rewriting the Pitivi Ruler in Rust using a modern GtkSnapshot rendering pipeline to improve performance and memory safety. At its current stage the ruler is being constructed as a standalone widget in a…

Over 180 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear. Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations, including: elisa: Change output device when global output is changed (Commit, fixes bug…

At FOSDEM 2025 I presented my (intentionally controversial) proposal how to keep copyright and licensing info in minified JS/CSS and asked for feedback, including from front-end developers. Two months later, I took the feedback from FOSDEM and held a small workshop session with a group consisting of…

Welcome to another edition of “This month in KDE Linux” — KDE&#8217;s <n-progress operating system. This month was pretty smooth; we had no build delivery drama, and all OS images we shipped were of satisfactory quality. The project is maturing, and we’re 78% of the way towards completing the…

Rust has achieved something extraordinary: it genuinely excites people to write software. But when it comes to building a real user interface, the ecosystem is still finding its footing. There are numerous options to pick your Rust UI framework from, including those gaining traction, like Iced and…

Qt Bridges is a project we have been developing since 2025 to bring Qt’s UI framework capabilities to other programming languages, without going through the full set of bindings. The focus is on the interaction with backend data objects, seamlessly integrated as QML components in a Qt Quick…

A while ago, Steam OS 3.8 was released. Among its many improvements, it includes a particularly important one for the Desktop Mode: it finally uses a Wayland session by default. There are many reasons why this is important for both us and our users. It is more stable, more feature-rich, and does…

This month’s work was dominated by the transition of Debian 12 “bookworm” to support by the LTS team, and by review of some large updates to Linux stable branches. Linux 6.12 is currently available in bookworm-backports, but that suite will stop accepting uploads after the last bookworm…

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @thisweekinrust.bsky.social on Bluesky or @ThisWeekinRust…

Github Link The following changes have been pushed to bugzilla.mozilla.org: Bug 1726931 - New issues should displayed on “My Dashboard” for first time users instead of assigned bugs Bug 1834454 - [WEBHOOKS] Webhooks for a product change don’t fire if product is changed away from the target…

By compiling GNU Emacs directly from the upstream Savannah repositories, you unlock the absolute bleeding edge of the extensible, self-documenting operating system disguised as a text editor. True autonomy over your computing environment sometimes involves building your own tools and customizing…

SRFI 254 is now in final status.This SRFI describes three concepts associated with the storage management of a Scheme system, ephemerons, guardians, and transport cell guardians. An ephemeron is a record structure with a key and a value field. An ephemeron can be broken. Breaking an…

For a while now, my colleagues and I over in Techpaladin Software have been working on software support for the Steam Machine, so it’s so awesome to see the product released! Like everyone else, I was surprised by the pricing… until I went out and looked at what other hardware costs these…

When working on a software library which is targeting 3rd-party consumers, it is rather of self-interest to make the library uncomplicated to use. Unless perhaps there is opportunity seen in having to help out in the process And to know if it is uncomplicated to use, best before learning…

The still-very-new logging package tl was just updated for the first time at CRAN. The tl package wraps the (also very new) rspdlite package to offer a lightweight and consistent logging interface from both R and C++ that enjoys being ‘tiny, fast, capable’ thanks to spdlite. With tl we follow the…

Overview I’m working on Marknote to introduce a block-editor inspired by popular note taking apps such as Notion. A block editor is a modern text editor that allows you to insert elements such as paragraphs, lists, tables, code, block quotes, etc. into separate blocks. Each block can be reordered,…

No matter that the hype cycle wants you to think, the renewable energy transition is the biggest thing happening in tech and it's happening faster and faster. Despite being neck deep in it personally with offgrid solar projects, most recently solar hot water, increasingly it becomes clear…

This is amusing, a flaw in the crypto-currency Zcash allowed generating Zcash from nothing and there’s no way to know if anyone did that [1]. Cory Doctorow wrote an insightful article for Locus Magazine about corporate valuations and why companies claim SciFi technologies [2]. Charles Stross wrote…

Apache® Magpie provides open source maintainers with platform infrastructure for agent-assisted repository maintainership Wilmington, DE –  June 29, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apache Magpie has become…