One of the promises of the AI-filled future is that we'll all have highly capable autonomous servants "agents" to work for us. Even back in the 1990s, it was a common trope in future-gazing to insist that a person's personal slave agent would negotiate on their behalf. Ask your meek digital pal…
read more ➔Oslandia will be attending the 2026 QGIS User Conference, which is taking place this year 5-6 October in Laax, Switzerland Workshop QGIS Expressions: From Labels to Geometry Generators (by Benoit de Mezzo | Monday, October 5, 11:30 AM) Deploying QGIS in large IT systems – best practices (by…
read more ➔This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans. Current status Radicle CI is in production use. There are several CI nodes, and Lars runs a public one for open source Rust projects at callisto.liw.fi. Radicle CI use metrics I…
read more ➔In the before-times, when Raspberry Pi CM5s were (relatively) affordable, I built a number of Pi clusters (example), and one of the most annoying parts of the build was flashing Raspberry Pi OS to all the Pis. One, two, or even three Pis isn't a big deal, but once you hit 4+, the process of…
read more ➔What Geode 2.0 taught us—and what comes next By Jinwoo HwangLead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0https://JinwooHwang.com This post is divided into three parts. Part I explains why Apache Geode 2.0 matters. Part II walks through how it was modernized. Part III looks…
read more ➔I was checking the new beta release of LIPS Scheme in GNU Emacs. I was searching for a way to execute an expression in Scheme mode when using the cmuscheme Scheme REPL in the other window. It turned out that it's standard C-x C-e (same as for elisp). The problem is that it displays the prompt…
read more ➔Update I was requested to take down this map by the IUCN team (International Union for the Conserfvation of Nature) because my usage breached their license terms. “You have broken the Red List Terms of Use by reposting the range maps without prior written consent from IUCN … The Red List…
read more ➔Rhombus version 1.1 is now available! We are pleased to announce Rhombus 1.1 is now available from https://rhombus-lang.org/. Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to use and uniquely customizable. As of this release: Add annot and annot.def as ways to define an…
read more ➔In early February 2011 Egypt was in the middle of a political revolution. One morning, everyone's phones suddenly pinged with an alert. The Armed Forces asks Egypt's honest and loyal men to confront the traitors and criminals and protect our people and honour and our precious Egypt. A series of…
read more ➔I'm excited to introduce a new beta version of LIPS Scheme. The most important features of this version are full continuations and TCO (Tail Call Optimization). They were inspired by JS-Scheme by Alex Yakovlev. see the rest of the article
read more ➔This was my first ever time at The Fringe™. Here are some scattered thoughts looking at the good, the bad, and the annoying aspects of this madly extravagant exhibition of talent. We saw 23 shows together, and one separate show each. There were more hits than misses, but the frustration of wasting…
read more ➔I'm really not sure what to make of this book. It was recommended by my book club as something between tragedy and comedy. The characters are excruciatingly well written - if you (or your friends) shoplifted Impulse body-spray back in the 1990s, you'll be hit by a terrifying wave of nostalgia. It…
read more ➔TorchGeo 0.10.0 Release Notes TorchGeo 0.10 is the largest release in TorchGeo history, with a record 220 PRs from a record 29 contributors over the last 6 months. It includes full time series support, fiscal sponsorship, and security hardening, among many other exciting new features! Highlights of…
read more ➔Easily the best show I've seen at the Fringe. For plot-related reasons, a television company asks a literary genius to create a "pro-weapons sitcom". It is a fast paced mix of the sitcoms 2012 and Episodes. The jokes come at a steady pace - some attack with the furiousity of bullets, others the…
read more ➔GeoServer 3.0.1 release is now available with downloads (bin, war, windows), along with docs and extensions. This is a stable release of GeoServer recommended for production use. GeoServer 3.0.1 is made in conjunction with GeoTools 35.1, and GeoWebCache 2.0.1. Thanks to Andrea Aime (GeoSolutions)…
read more ➔GeoServer 2.28.5 release is now available with downloads (bin, war, windows), along with docs and extensions. This is a maintenance release of GeoServer providing existing installations with minor updates and bug fixes. GeoServer 2.28.5 is made in conjunction with GeoTools 34.5, and GeoWebCache…
read more ➔GeoServer 2.27.6 release is now available with downloads (bin, war, windows), along with docs and extensions. This series has previously reached end-of-life, with this release issued to address an urgent bug or security vulnerability. Please apply this update as a mitigation measure only, and plan…
read more ➔posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements We are pleased to announce Racket v9.3 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release: The raco setup command can generate markdown documentation, using the --doc-markdown option. The "#lang" teaching languages…
read more ➔SRFI 279 is now in draft status. Interactive REPL-driven systems (that most Schemes are) need a way to get detailed information on a given piece of data. Inspectors, as these are conventionally called. This SRFI defines a basic protocol for inspectors, consisting of three procedures: …
read more ➔GeoCat Find 2026.1 is out! Find is built on GeoNetwork 4.4 and ships as two packages: The first covers the full set of metadata schemas available in GeoNetwork, with a clean, focused interface . The s...
read more ➔The Apache Trusted Releases (ATR) platform, a new tool from the ASF Tooling Initiative, is making it easier for open source maintainers across hundreds of independently governed ASF projects to ship secure, compliant releases without adding to their workload. ATR automates the parts of the release…
read more ➔Shortly after Apple launched the budget MacBook Neo, Dell announced their response, a new low-end XPS 13. Matching the Neo's current pricing, it starts at $699, or $599 with an educational discount. That discount is currently set to expire on November 2, and with the current component pricing…
read more ➔Introducing Apache® Fluss, a lakehouse-native streaming storage for real-time analytics and AI, and Apache® Pony Mail, a web-based mail archive browser built to scale to millions of archived messages Wilmington, DE – August 6, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open…
read more ➔Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM. I tested it on my Ampere Altra Dev Platform—the same machine on which I've <ooted Windows on Arm the first time, messed with multiple GPUs, and most recently tested Houdini's native arm64 support. Install…
read more ➔SRFI 273 is now in final status. The original SRFI 253 established a basis for type-checked (or otherwise checked) data handling. But it lacked some quality-of-life features. This SRFI extends SRFI 253 to match existing implementation practice and common sense. Provided extensions are: …
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