The fact this movie tanked at the box office just makes the ride all the more enjoyable. I had a bad headache and had to call off the screening with a friend yesterday. Thursday is when the movies rotate in our part of the world where we use the un-American units, so I thought I'd missed yet another…
read more ➔The Rust team has published a new point release of Rust, 1.99.1. Rust is a programming language that is empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, getting Rust 1.99.1 is as easy as: rustup update stable If you don't have…
read more ➔AI now digitizes, scripts and runs whole QGIS tasks. US mapping jobs are still projected to grow to 2035. Here is what changes, task by task, and what to learn.
read more ➔How to do a spatial join in QGIS: join attributes by location or by nearest, count points in polygons, pick the right predicate, and avoid the CRS traps.
read more ➔How to digitize a map in QGIS: draw polygons by hand with snapping and tracing, trace a scanned map, convert a raster, or let AI outline every object at once.
read more ➔On September 22 we released systemd v262 into the wild. In the weeks leading up to that release (and since then) I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release, under the #systemd262 hash tag. In case you aren't using Mastodon, but would like to read…
read more ➔Hello, I am pleased to announce a new Cambalache release. Cambalache is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) tool that allows you to create and edit user interfaces for Gtk 4 and 3 applications. This new version depends on GNOME SDK 51 and includes all new properties and types from Gtk and…
read more ➔The twenty-second release of the qlcal package arrivied at CRAN yesterday, and has been built for r2u as well as on r-universe. qlcal delivers the calendaring parts of QuantLib. It is provided (for the R package) as a set of included files, so the package is self-contained and does not depend on an…
read more ➔Welcome to the September 2026 report from the Reproducible Builds project! In our reports, we try to outline the most important things that we have been up to over the past month. As a quick recap about what problem our project intends to solve, whilst anyone may inspect the source code of free…
read more ➔A few people have asked how the scoring works, and one or two have asked, a bit pointedly, why their pin 40 km from Lagos only got half marks. Here’s the longer version of the info box: how to play, how the points add up, and where it all comes from. The basics Every day you get 5 cities. For…
read more ➔Introducing Apache Auron™, Apache Reqsign™, and Apache ResilientDB™ Wilmington, DE – October 14, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home for open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apache Auron, Apache Reqsign, and Apache ResilientDB have become Top-Level…
read more ➔New feature cuts local working-copy storage requirements by up to 50%, extending Subversion’s long-standing strength in version control for huge repositories and huge files Wilmington, DE – October 14, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world…
read more ➔Formlabs sent me a Form Studio 1 resin 3D printer to test after years of back-and-forth about their Form 4 printer. Like the Form 4, it's an SLA (stereolithography) printer, but unlike the Form 4 (which starts at $2,600), it's affordable for a hobbyist. It's not cheap, coming in at $699 (or $749…
read more ➔When I joined KDE in 1999 I already thought of it as a mature project. I used the KDE desktop every day, and I was delighted with what it could do and how it felt. I had no idea that this would be one of the most impactful decisions of my life, or where it would lead me. Today we are celebrating…
read more ➔Twelve years ago, I was complaining that IoT devices were too expensive. Last week I bought a colour changing Zigbee lighbulb for £4. Not a typo - less than a fiver. While the aipocalypse is devouring RAM with its insatiable appetite, Moore's Law appears to be keeping up its end of the bargain…
read more ➔So... a bit of news. KDAB have just published a video featuring me talking about design, QML, and something I keep coming back to: what happens when the tools we use to make software become more capable, while the interfaces we build with them seem to get increasingly…
read more ➔Exploring how Large Language Models can Improve Search in Spatial Data Infrastructures Every day, a huge amount of spatial data is produced by public agencies, research institutes, companies, and other data providers. Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) have been set up at local, national and…
read more ➔Stem op OSGeo.nl voor de Geo Prestige Award! TLDR; Direct stemmen via https://geomares.typeform.com/to/YUyu9jo8 . De vakvereniging Geo-Informatie Nederland (GIN) reikt jaarlijks vakprijzen uit, de Geo Prestige Awards. Er zijn drie categorieën: Professional, Startup en Organisatie.…
read more ➔Me, calmly assessing the implications of LLMs for programming language design(ers). As someone who has made a career of programming language design, I definitely have moments of existential dread about the rise of LLMs. I started coding in 5th grade on an x861 that ran at 5MHz, had something like a…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔Review: Ties That Bond in Gretna Green, by Linzi Day Series: Midlife Recorder #3 Publisher: Linzi Day Copyright: February 2023 ISBN: 9798376517017 Format: Kindle Pages: 616 Ties That Bond in Gretna Green is a…
read more ➔Debian Contributions: 2026-09 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services. DebConf site…
read more ➔Celebrating thirty years of KDE Plasma 6.8 is released on a very special day: KDE’s 30th birthday. Today we celebrate three decades of the KDE community providing the world’s greatest free and open-source software. Plasma 6.8 is no exception, offering enhancements across much of the user…
read more ➔Github Link The following changes have been pushed to bugzilla.mozilla.org: Bug 2079152 - Unable to select content-type when creating attachment Bug 2079453 - Upgrade devbridge-autocomplete to 2.0.1 and fix autocomplete dropdown reopening after the field loses focus Bug 2065173 - Migrate Group REST…
read more ➔On or before August 10th, a macOS system at Northwestern University which builds and hosts Racket snapshots was compromised. The attackers installed a crypto miner, which was detected by Northwestern network monitoring. By August 18th, the machine was fully deactivated, and was subsequently…
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