Github Link The following changes have been pushed to bugzilla.mozilla.org: Bug 2053330 - “Close and move to invalid bugs” button jumps way to the left (possibly under your mouse, asking for a mis-click) when you close a bug with another resolution. Bug 2052048 - Make the “Close as invalid” button…
read more ➔Lutra Consulting recently attended the Spotkanie Użytkowników Polska 2026 in Łódź, Poland, supporting the event as a gold sponsor. The conference, which saw attendance grow to 500 participants, featured insightful presentations and a successful workshop by team member Radek. Highlights included…
read more ➔Two years ago Mozilla asked two leading experts on deceptive design, Dr. Harry Brignull and Cennydd Bowles, to look at how Microsoft was treating people who tried to use a different browser on Windows. Their report, Over The Edge, documented a pattern of design choices in Windows, Edge, and Bing…
read more ➔My wife and I recently went on a 7 week holiday around Europe. Although we each took a massive backpack, we wanted to travel fairly lightly. I took a single universal power brick. This little unit was all I needed to charge my various gadgets. It has a hefty USB-C PD (Power Delivery) port for…
read more ➔Con el vídeo anterior cerramos el bloque dedicado a gvSIG Desktop. En este octavo damos el salto a la segunda pieza de la Suite: gvSIG Online, la plataforma web sobre la que se montan los geoportales municipales. Donde en Desktop el proyecto se quedaba en el equipo y la salida final era estática (un…
read more ➔Shhh! RSS Club posts are only available to feed subscribers. Keep the secret! I'm not a big fan of the "Quantified Self" movement, but since buying a ridiculously cheap smartwatch, I've been interested to see just how many steps I take per day. During our recent Interrail holiday, we travelled…
read more ➔Last year, my wife and I went on a 5,025 Km Interrail adventure. We got the month-long unlimited pass and saw 10 Countries in 30 Days. That was a bit too intense. So this year we got the 15 travel days in 2 months package. We grabbed the 1st class tickets when they went on sale in December. Here's…
read more ➔It’s been a couple of busy weeks, with the QGIS 4.2 release and meetings and conferences all over the place before a few, hopefully quieter, weeks of summer break. QGIS First, the Austrian QGIS user group met online on 25 June. The topic was webmapping, with multiple users presenting their…
read more ➔The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming. It can see WiFi through walls and track drones in flight. If the open source community can come up with something like…
read more ➔My new year's resolution is to play more video games with my wife. Specifically co-operative games. I hate playing competitively; it's rubbish to achieve victory at the expense of someone else. So I asked for recommendations and picked the cheapest things which looked reasonable. Several people…
read more ➔Para organizaciones científicas como el Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM), la alineación con los estándares internacionales no es solo una cuestión técnica, sino una necesidad estratégica para que sus investigaciones tengan un impacto real. El uso de estándares permite que los datos dejen de ser…
read more ➔Hasta ahora hemos trabajado dentro del documento Vista: cargar capas, simbolizarlas, consultarlas, editarlas. En este séptimo vídeo damos el paso al documento Mapa, que es el componedor cartográfico de gvSIG Desktop, donde montamos una salida lista para imprimir o exportar a PDF, con su rótulo, su…
read more ➔La soberanía digital europea se ha convertido en una de las grandes cuestiones estratégicas de nuestro tiempo. Ya no se trata únicamente de disponer de tecnología, sino de decidir qué tecnología usamos, bajo qué condiciones, con qué garantías y con qué capacidad real de control sobre nuestros datos,…
read more ➔If you teach Geography, or Social Sciences in Grades 8 and 9, in Southern Africa, you know the struggle of finding high-quality, relevant, and curriculum-aligned maps for your classroom. The days of fighting with a temperamental photocopier over a faded, ten-year-old map sheet are officially behind…
read more ➔This month’s Plus One celebrates the people and projects shaping the ASF community. We reflect on the role of mentorship through the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit, share the latest for Community Over Code Glasgow 2026, and welcome Apache Livy and Apache Magpie as ASF’s newest Top-Level…
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read more ➔The 'Special Value' Pi 4 pictured above is probably the rarest Raspberry Pi I own—even rarer than my <lue special edition Pi. A Raspberry Pi reseller briefly listed a special 'value edition' Pi 4. But the product page 404's now. While it was up, my curiosity got the better of me, and now I have two…
read more ➔Verily, some of our brethren (and sistren) be afflicted with a sinister disposition. While the righteous scroll using the thumb of their right hand - as is good and proper - an accurs'd minority swing the other way. Look, you try writing an interesting bug report without sounding like a clanker,…
read more ➔SRFI 277 is now in draft status. Cyclic ports are like infinite string and bytevector input ports: they produce the elements of a given sequence repeatedly, forever. While their intended use is as reusable seeds for SRFI 271 random ports, they are also useful whenever a…
read more ➔Welcome to FOSS4G The Romanian city of Timișoara provided the perfect relaxed setting for this year's European Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G-EU) conference. GeoCat was excited to attend ...
read more ➔I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is. Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal revelations is amusing for the first…
read more ➔This was a little idea gnawing at the back of my brain. The humble barcode has been in use since the 1970s. In the next few years it will likely be replaced with a 2D QR Code. I couldn't find anyone who'd made a QR code with an embedded UPC - so I decided to make one. If you move your phone…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔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…
read more ➔SRFI 124 is now in withdrawn status. An ephemeron is an object with two components called its key and its datum. It differs from an ordinary pair as follows: if the garbage collector (GC) can prove that there are no references to the key except from the ephemeron itself and …
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