It happened.

“Can you help me debug this program? I vibe coded it and I have no idea what’s going on. I had no choice – learning this new language and frameworks would have taken ages, and I have severe time constraints.”

Did I say “no”? Of course not, I’m a “nice guy”. So I’m at fault as well, because I endorsed this whole thing. The other guy is also guilty, because he didn’t communicate clearly to his boss what can be done and how much time it takes. And the boss and his bosses are guilty a lot, because they’re all pushing for “AI”.

The end result is garbage software.

This particular project is still relatively small, so it might be okay at the moment. But normalizing this will yield nothing but garbage. And actually, especially if this small project works out fine, this contributes to the shittiness because management will interpret this as “hey, AI works”, so they will keep asking for it in future projects.

How utterly frustrating. This is not what I want to do every day from now on.

[$] Gccrs after libcore
Despite its increasing popularity, the Rust programming language is still
supported by a single compiler, the LLVM-based rustc. At the 2025 GNU Tools\
Cauldron, Pierre-Emmanuel Patry said that a lot of people are waiting
for a GCC-based Rust compiler before jumping into the language. Patry, who
is working on just that compiler (known as “gccrs”), provided an update on
the status of that project and what is coming next. ⌘ Read more

[$] Last-minute /boot boost for Fedora 43
Sudden increases in the size of Fedora’s initramfs
files have prompted the project to fast-track a proposal to increase
the default size of the /boot partition for new installs of
Fedora 43 and later. The project has also walked back a few
changes that have contributed to larger initramfs files, but the
ever-increasing size of firmware means that the need for more room is
unavoidable. The Fedora En … ⌘ Read more

[$] Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development
The
Rust for Linux project has been good for Rust, Tyler Mandry, one of the
co-leads of Rust’s language-design team, said. He
gave a talk at
Kangrejos 2025 covering upcoming Rust language features and thanking
the Rust for Linux developers for helping drive them forward. Afterward, Benno Lossin and Xiangfei Ding
went into more detail about their work on the three most important language
features for kernel development: … ⌘ Read more

Outback water project unlikely due missing $30m, minister says
After decades of lobbying and design controversy, the New South Wales government says it needs another $30–40 million to proceed with the Wilcannia Weir upgrade. ⌘ Read more

U-Boot v2025.10 released
Version 2025.10 of the U-Boot boot loader
has been released with new features, including Python tooling improvements,
cleanups for implicit header inclusions, better support for numerous Arm
platforms, support for new RISC-V platforms, better documentation, and
more. Maintainer Tom Rini also reports on some project news:

As I mentioned with the v2025.07
release, I was looking for a few people to step up and help with the
overall organization and management of the project. To that … ⌘ Read more

The project cost blow-out rivalling Snowy Hydro 2.0 and Hobart stadium
It’s taken 10 years, blown out by hundreds of millions of dollars, and is still nowhere near becoming operational. Now there are calls for the Darwin ship lift project to be scrapped. ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Great job!

I suggested it because I did it in the past, but never used it on bigger works.

In my case I did it exclusively on really small projects and used a thin rubber head hammer to prevent deforming the metal.

** JavaScript Notebook **
Kartik recently reminded me of my own project playground that I do use from time to time, but that I’ve always been a little frustrated with.

That reminder paired with that frustration lead me to revisit something similar that I’d started a while ago, but hadn’t finished. Notebook is kinda my take on Jupyter Notebooks minus a ton of features and capabilities.

Here is … ⌘ Read more

Alpine Linux plans /usr merge
The Alpine Linux project has announced
plans to change its base filesystem hierarchy:

In the future, /lib, /bin, and /sbin
will be symbolic links to their /usr counterparts, and every package
shall be installed under the /usr paths. For now,
/usr/bin and /usr/sbin will continue to be independent paths,
but that might change if the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) gets
updated.

The merge will take place in the upcomi … ⌘ Read more

[$] Linting Rust code in the kernel
Klint is a Rust compiler extension
developed by Gary Guo to run some
kernel-specific lint rules, which may also be useful for embedded system
development. He spoke about his
recent work on the project at
Kangrejos 2025. The next day, Alejandra González
led a discussion about Rust’s normal linter,
Clippy. The two tools … ⌘ Read more

Hopefully I can muster up the energy to start this new project:

Put up lots of thermometers and hygrometers in the apartment, have them report their readings wireless to a database.

I suspect that I’ll have to “build” these myself, because ready-to-use kits most like require some sort of cloud service. Dunno, haven’t checked yet.

Hi everyone, here’s a little introduction of my twtxt client (still WIP).

The client I’m developing is a single tenant project that runs entirely in the browser (it might use an optional backend).

It’s entirely based on native web-components and vanilla JS, it is designed to act closer to a toolkit than a full-fledged client, allowing users to “DIY” their own interface with pure html or plain javascript functions.

Users can also build their own engines by including a global javascript object that implement the defined internal API (TBD).

I’m planning to build a system that is easy enough to build and use with any skill level, using only pure html (with a homebrew minimal template engine) or via plain JS (I’ll be also providing some pre-made templates too).

Everything can be self-hosted on any static hosting provider, this allows to spread twtxt within communities like Neocities and similarly hosted websites (basically any Indieweb/Smallweb/Digital garden website and any of the common GitHub/Lab/Berg/lify Pages).

It will be probably named something like TxtCraft or craf.txt but I’m not really sure yet… 🤔 (Maybe some suggestions could help)

I’m still in the experimental phase, so there’s no decent source-code to share yet, but it will soon enough!

Speaking of groff: I’ve been following their mailing list for a while now and this G. Branden Robinson person invests an insane amount of energy into that project. 🤯

@prologic@twtxt.net No, this is a Linux manpage from the man-pages project: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/man/man7/ascii.7

I do have an idea what’s going on. Could be an unfortunate interaction between the table preprocessor tbl and the man macro package. 🤔

ESP32 Bus Pirate Turns Low-Cost Boards into Multi-Protocol Debugging Tools
An open-source project called ESP32 Bus Pirate has been released, inspired by the classic Bus Pirate and adapted for modern ESP32-S3 hardware. Developed by Geo-tp, the firmware transforms low-cost ESP32 boards into versatile debugging devices that can probe, sniff, and interact with a wide range of digital and radio protocols. The firmware supports protocols such […] ⌘ Read more

Monica Rizzolli has edited a new smashing magazine that covers some cool historic and contemporary #CreativeCoding in Brazil (disclosure / bias warning: I’m on it). Published in Portuguese with an English translation of the text.
500 unique generative covers, art by Rod Junqueira and title variations by André Burnier.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/variavel-magazine

A step-by-step guide to modernizing Java projects with GitHub Copilot agent mode
Learn how to use GitHub Copilot agent mode to modernize legacy Java projects with guided upgrades, automated fixes, and cloud-ready migrations.

The post A step-by-step guide to modernizing Java projects with GitHub Copilot agent mode … ⌘ Read more

Gente, esta notícia é quente, vai sair o primeiro número da Variável. Tem uma entrevista comigo, estou até meio emocionado (não tenho nem roupa pra estar junto com algumas das figurinhas que aparecem na revista).

https://www.catarse.me/variavel (para o Brasil)

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/variavel-magazine (para outros países)

#ProgramaçãoCriativa #CreativeCoding

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This thing about making software run on other people’s computers can be pretty hard!

No wonder I think I’ve heard this is one of the things that distinguishes professional software development from [my preferred domain of] things such as “end-user programming” etc.

The problem is that when you start sharing code in the context of a FLOSS project you almost immediately get enmeshed in concerns about packaging and how other people will install stuff, when sometimes you just don’t want to be a professional software developer! 😿

I’m always borrowing terms (learning ideas) from @lr like: incidental complexity. I hate incidental complexity or maybe I just fear incidental complexity. Can we escape incidental complexity? I guess not.

Working on a project that does Augmented Reality and computer vision object detection and QR code and image recognition inside a Web application. Pretty neat what can be done today with a few thousand lines of JavaScript.

«1977 United States Environmental
Protection Agency
Graphic Standards System

Designed by Steff Geissbühler,
Chermayeff & Geismar Associates

The EPA Graphic Standards System is one of the finest examples of a standards manual ever created. The modular and flexible system devised raised the standard for public design in the United States.

The book features a foreword by Tom Geismar, introduction by Steff Geissbühler, an essay by Christopher Bonanos, scans of the original manual (from Geissbühler’s personal copy), and 48 pages of photographs from the EPA-commissioned Documerica project (1970–1977).»

https://standardsmanual.com/products/epa

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Since Google announced their intentions to heavily limit sideloading on Android, starting end of 2026, I’ve been looking for potential solutions, for this policy change, that threatens the majority of projects I maintain, in some way. Google already killed my browser project years ago, but I have no other choice, than to fight this, any way I can.

The best choice to deal with this, will probably be the Android Debug Bridge, which can be used not only to install apps unrestricted, but also to uninstall, or remove, almost any unnecessary part of the OS. Shizuku, combined with Canta Debloater, is the winning combination for now.

I’ve already removed most Google apps from my device: the annoying AI assistant, the stupid Google app adding the annoying articles, left of your homes screen, Google One, Gboard, Safety app… it’s amazing, no distracting Google slopware, like in the good old Android 2 days! And I absolutely intend to keep it this way, from now on, no new Google apps or services on my devices, unless Google can give me a good enough reason, to allow them there and whenever the app that verifies signatures, to block installing apps not approved by Google, I’ll just remove it from my device and advocate others do so too.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @dce@hashnix.club It’s pretty cool, I won’t argue that, but also really simple, to be completely honest. 😅 The BIOS already provides all you need to send data to the printer:

https://helppc.netcore2k.net/interrupt/bios-printer-services

The BIOS actually does provide a great deal of things, which, to me, was one of the most surprising learnings of this project (the project of writing a little 16-bit real-mode OS, that is). It often doesn’t feel like I was writing an operating system – it felt more like writing a normal program that just uses BIOS calls like we would use syscalls these days.

(I’ve also read a lot of warnings, like “don’t use the BIOS for this or that”. Mostly because it tends to be very slow.)

Now that’s interesting. Some of these bots start crawling at URLs like this:

https://uninformativ.de/projects/lariza/NetTracer-Scenes/GPUTracer/multipass/xlonitor/http-collect/getpw

That is obviously completely wrong. But I can explain it. Some years ago, I screwed up my nginx rewrite rules, and that’s how these broken URLs came to be.

It all redirects to /git now, which is why that endpoint sees so much traffic lately.

But what does that mean? Why do they start there? I can only speculate that this company bought an old database of web links and they use that to start crawling. And it was probably a cheap one, because these redirects have been fixed for quite a long time now.

There’s always something more urgent: I’ve been known for a long time that sooner or later I’d feel prompted to switch from #github to somewhere else (since 2018 at least!), but I’ve been postponing and only very slowly flirting with the idea… That didn’t work too bad for me: if I had rushed into it I would have probably migrated to #gitlab, before knowing about the more objectionable sides to it. In the end, 2025 was the year I finally acted upon the urge to move. I did not do a very thorough analysis of the alternative hosts - what I have been reading about them along the years felt enough, and I easily decided to choose #codeberg. Being hasty like that, alas, was a mistake: I just now found - during this slow and time-consuming process of deciding what and how to migrate - that there is a low repository limit on codeberg: “The owner has already reached the limit of 100 repositories.” I’m not complaining, mind you, and those “lucky 100” that are already there will stay - at least as a sort of backup. But this means that codeberg is not for me - and so this time I turn to you, the #mastodon community.

What github alternative, not self-hosted, should I move my >100 projects into?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, glad you like it, but sadly I’m not sure, if there’s still a way, for this particular project, to continue.

Reducing 38 pixels (previous smallest) to 27, inside of a 7x7 square canvas, is a result I’m really happy with. Now it seems I can only shave off single pixels and get a lot worse looking results - to the point it doesn’t even look like my mascot, to me.

There doesn’t seem to be a hard cap for drawing tiny dogs. It’s possible to arrange 5 pixels, in a way someone recognizes them, as some kind of a dog. The record for cats, is currently a single orange pixel: https://youtu.be/gzeK8NKuzmg

The only way to beat that, is either a monitor, with just a single red diode lit, inside one of its pixels, or an image file that’s broken and empty, on purpose.

In order to publish my personal projects/pages (and most of my teaching materials, hundreds of pages) on #Codeberg, I need to convert #markdown files into #HTML and sprinkle some CSS & JS from a layout template, like #GitHub’s Pages #Jekyll does, but I dread the complexity of installing and tending to Jekyll or Hugo or other static site generators, and I can’t even imagine going near Forejo Actions or any sort of CI intergration.

Should I be brave and do the Jekyll /static generator thing? Any other ideas for poor, overworked, stressed out, clumsy people? :(

I have a #CreativeCoding course at Domestika, teaching the first steps of #Python and #py5. The feedback from students always makes me happy!

Check out this work by a student:

https://www.domestika.org/en/projects/1841169-programacion?ttag=a_b_a_villares

And other testimonials:

https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/4307-designing-with-python-programming-for-a-visual-context?ttag=a_b_a_villares

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I have a #CreativeCoding course at Domestika, teaching the first steps of #Python and #py5. The feedback from students always makes me happy!

Check out this work by a student:

https://www.domestika.org/en/projects/1841169-programacion?ttag=a_b_a_villares

And other testimonials:

https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/4307-designing-with-python-programming-for-a-visual-context?ttag=a_b_a_villares

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de having to go to a gopher proxy to see a text document better served on readily available web servers… 🤭, but I digress. Verbatim text:

What's Missing from "Retro"
~softwarepagan
------------------------------------------------------------------
You know, often, when I say I miss older ways of computing or
connecting online, people tell me "there's nothing stopping you
from doing that now!" and they are technicay correct in most cases
(though I can't, for example, chat with friends on MSN ever
again...) However, let me explain that while this type of thing can
*sort of* fill that hole in my heart, it isn't *the same.*

Say, for example, I wanted to connect with others over a BBS. This
wouldn't offer the same types of connections it used to. While
there are BBSes around with active users, they're no longer there
to discuss movies, Star Trek, D&D, games, etc. They're there to
discuss *BBSes.* The same can be said for Gopher, old-school forums
and all sorts of revival projects (such as Escargot, Spacehey,
etc.) Retrocomputing enthusiasts, while they have a variety of
interests, are often in these spaces to discuss the medium itself
and not other topics. This exists at a stark contrast from how
things were in the past, where a non-tech-inclined person may learn
the tech to connect with likeminded others (as I did as a
Zelda-obsessed kid.)

The same can be said of old media. People will say "well, nobody is
stopping you from watching old shows/movies now!" Again, they are
technically correct. I can go home right now and watch *Star Trek:
The Next Generation* to my heart's content. It will never again,
however, be current, or new. When something is new, it serves as a
shared cultural experience. Remember how "Game of Thrones* felt in
the mid-to-late 2010s? Yeah, that.

It's sad. I sustain myself on a mixed diet of old things, new
things, and new things intended for old millenials like me who like
old things. It can be bittersweet. 

Updating my #Processing + #Python tools table:

https://github.com/villares/Resources-for-teaching-programming/blob/main/README.md#processing–python-tools-table

After some years, things changed and my opinions changed a bit too:

• #py5 is going supper strong and the “new snake_case names” are not an issue for me anymore. I used to worry a lot about all the Processing Python mode examples and teaching materials out there, and some of my own, with “CamelCase Processing names” I’m not worried at all about it anymore!

• For the record, Processing Python mode is just a legacy thing, no one should start anything with it.

• The great pure Python Processing implementation project #p5py seems stalled, latest release in Dec. 2023 :((( Advancing it was always going to be an uphill battle…

• The unrelated Brython based site p5py.com seems to be gone, so I removed it from the table.

• I added a link to my own #pyp5js hack py5pjs/py5mode because this is what I’m using most nowadays.

Updating my #Processing + #Python tools table:

https://github.com/villares/Resources-for-teaching-programming/blob/main/README.md#processing–python-tools-table

After some years, things changed and my opinions changed a bit too:

• #py5 is going super strong and the “new snake_case names” are not an issue for me anymore. I used to worry a lot about all the Processing Python mode examples and teaching materials out there, and some of my own, with “CamelCase Processing names” I’m not worried at all about it anymore!

• For the record, Processing Python mode is just a legacy thing, no one should start anything with it.

• The great pure Python Processing implementation project #p5py seems stalled, latest release in Dec. 2023 :((( Advancing it was always going to be an uphill battle…

• The unrelated Brython based site p5py.com seems to be gone, so I removed it from the table.

• I added a link to my own #pyp5js hack py5pjs/py5mode because this is what I’m using most nowadays.

Updating my #Processing + #Python tools table:

https://github.com/villares/Resources-for-teaching-programming/blob/main/README.md#processing–python-tools-table

After some years, things changed and my opinions changed a bit too:

• #py5 is going super strong and the “new snake_case names” are not an issue for me anymore. I used to worry a lot about all the Processing Python mode examples and teaching materials out there, and some of my own, with “CamelCase Processing names” I’m not worried at all about it anymore!

• For the record, Processing Python mode is just a legacy thing, no one should start anything with it.

• The great “pure Python” (no Java required) Processing implementation project #p5py seems stalled, latest release in Dec. 2023 :((( Advancing it was always going to be an uphill battle…

• The unrelated Brython based site p5py.com seems to be gone, so I removed it from the table.

• I added a link to my own #pyp5js hack py5pjs/py5mode because this is what I’m using most nowadays.

Updating my #Processing + #Python tools table:

https://github.com/villares/Resources-for-teaching-programming/blob/main/README.md#processing–python-tools-table

After some years, things changed and my opinions changed a bit too:

• #py5 is going super strong and the “new snake_case names” are not an issue for me anymore. I used to worry a lot about all the Processing Python mode examples and teaching materials out there, and some of my own, with “CamelCase Processing names” I’m not worried at all about it anymore!

• For the record, Processing Python mode is just a legacy thing, no one should start anything new with it.

• The great “pure Python” (no Java required) Processing implementation project #p5py seems stalled, latest release in Dec. 2023 :((( Advancing it was always going to be an uphill battle…

• The unrelated #Brython based site p5py.com seems to be gone, so I removed it from the table.

• I added a link to my own #pyp5js hack py5pjs/py5mode because this is the version of pyp5js I’m using most nowadays.

#Pillow #PIL #Python

DeprecationWarning: 'mode' parameter is deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 13 (2026-10-15) img1 = PIL.Image.fromarray(my_array, mode="RGB")

So I went to see the documentation:

https://hugovk-pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/Image.html#PIL.Image.fromarray

And came out empty handed, that is, couldn’t understand what to do instead :(

And the plot thickens (this affects many projects, there are some workarounds, but some argument about “reverting” this change allowing some “mode” on import):

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9063

(@py5coding@py5coding I guess you’ll want to check this out at some point. py5_tools.animated_gif uses mode=“RGB”)

#Pillow #PIL #Python
On Image.fromarray():

DeprecationWarning: 'mode' parameter is deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 13 (2026-10-15) img1 = PIL.Image.fromarray(my_array, mode="RGB")

So I went to see the documentation:

https://hugovk-pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/Image.html#PIL.Image.fromarray

And came out empty handed, that is, couldn’t understand what to do instead :(

And the plot thickens (this affects many projects, there are some workarounds, but some argument about “reverting” this change allowing some “mode” on import):

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9063

(@py5coding@py5coding I guess you’ll want to check this out at some point. py5_tools.animated_gif uses mode=“RGB”)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org YEAH THEY ARE SOOO GOOD SINGING TOGETHER!!! it’s kind of their label (hello project)’s thing :]

Since Fastly acquired and recently shut down glitch.com, some of my ancient webapps are no longer available, nor do I have any plans to make them available again - all had either zero, or very few monthly visits, used outdated libraries and would be a waste of money, to continue hosting and updating elsewhere.

All art archives remain unaffected and all projects shut down before 2025, were already permanently deleted, but if there’s someone out there, still relying on the recently discontinued projects, somehow - you can reach out and request their source code.

These requests will only be honoured, until the end of this year, when we plan to permanently delete, all of this data (both webapps and files only hosted on Amazons CDN).

Canine out °_°

A look at the issues list of a project, and you can easilly see how misguided the whole thing is:

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/issues

#EUDIWallet

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Status 2025-07-21
Morning, computer! Spending my days off trying to figure things out.
Some of them will occur in this post. I think best when I’m writing,
after all.

I’m back from a short vacation since a couple of weeks. I’m still
going to take a few days off every week for a while. I need the break.
It’s been way too many 12-16 hour workdays. I’m nominally working 80%
(~6 hour days), so I figure I’ve been working a lot for free.

Yeah, well, I like the TKey project to succeed. The ideas behind it
have implicatio … ⌘ Read more

i should work on my PHP project again just so i have an excuse to use htmx

TKey: The Next Generation
Not speaking for my employer, just as an interested developer in an
interesting open source project.

As you might have noticed, the platform repo of the Tillitis TKey has
some alpha tags for the next generation, Castor:

https://github.com/tillitis/tillitis-key1/tags

An alpha tag means that all planned features for the platform are in
place, but there’s not yet a complete audit and a lot of testing … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, luckily, there is the suckless project. I couldn’t live without dmenu!

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, this really could use a proper definition or a “manifest”. 😅 Many of these ideas are not very wide spread. And I haven’t come across similar projects in all these years.

Let’s take the farbfeld image format as an example again. I think this captures the “spirit” quite well, because this isn’t even about code.

This is the entire farbfeld spec:

farbfeld is a lossless image format which is easy to parse, pipe and compress. It has the following format:

╔════════╤═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ Bytes  │ Description                                             ║
╠════════╪═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣
║ 8      │ "farbfeld" magic value                                  ║
╟────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ 4      │ 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (width)                      ║
╟────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ 4      │ 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (height)                     ║
╟────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ [2222] │ 4x16-Bit BE unsigned integers [RGBA] / pixel, row-major ║
╚════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

The RGB-data should be sRGB for best interoperability and not alpha-premultiplied.

(Now, I don’t know if your screen reader can work with this. Let me know if it doesn’t.)

I think these are some of the properties worth mentioning:

• The spec is extremely short. You can read this in under a minute and fully understand it. That alone is gold.
  
• There are no “knobs”: It’s just a single version, it’s not like there’s also an 8-bit color depth version and one for 16-bit and one for extra large images and one that supports layers and so on. This makes it much easier to implement a fully compliant program.
  
• Despite being so simple, it’s useful. I’ve used it in various programs, like my window manager, my status bars, some toy programs like “tuxeyes” (an Xeyes variant), or Advent of Code.
  
• The format does not include compression because it doesn’t need to. Just use something like bzip2 to get file sizes similar to PNG.
  
• It doesn’t cover every use case under the sun, but it does cover the most important ones (imho). They have discussed using something other than RGBA and decided it’s not worth the trouble.
  
• They refrained from adding extra baggage like metadata. It would have needlessly complicated things.

Someone did a thing:

https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/114763322251054485

I’ve been silently wondering all the time if this was possible, but never investigated: Keep doing X11 but use Wayland as a backend.

This uses XWayland’s “rootful” mode, which basically just gives you a normal Wayland window with all the X11 stuff happening inside of it:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Rootful-Useful

In other words, put such a window in fullscreen and you (more or less) have good old X11 running in a Wayland window.

(For me, personally, this won’t be the way forward. But it’s a very interesting project.)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting internal education sessions are way too infrequent here as well. There are a bunch of “knowledge transfer” meetings actually, but 90% of the topics already sound totally boring to me. The other 9% talks turned out to be underwhelming, sadly. I only attended a single one where it was delivered what has been promised. They’re all talks, not real hands-on trainings like you did.

Once a year the security guys organize a really great hacking event, though. Teams can volunteer to hand in their software dev instances and all workmates are invited to hack them and report security vulnerabilities. That’s a lot of fun, but also gets frustrating towards the end when you don’t make any progress. :-) There’s also some actual hands-on training in advance for preparation of the two days. Unfortunately, I missed the last event due to my own project being very stressful at the time.

When I had a Do What You Want Day I also show my direct teammates what I learned in the hopes of this being interesting to them as well. I’m the only one in my team using this opportunity, sadly.

I was this 🤏 close to buying a couple of baby-cactus plants but, I couldn’t … I still have to save up for that future screen printing project. 🥲

(Of course, if we’re talking about a project you’re doing for a customer and the customer keeps asking for new stuff, then you’re never done, and you have to think ahead and expect changes. Is that what they mean? 🤔)

@prologic@twtxt.net Ahhh, right, my bad, I could have easily found that. 🤦

There’s also a project page which lists some limitations of this study: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/your-brain-on-chatgpt/overview/

It certainly sounds plausible. “Use it or lose it.”

On my blog: Developer Diary, Day of the African Child https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/16/african-child.html #programming #project #devjournal

[$] Improving Fedora’s documentation
At Flock,
Fedora’s annual developer conference, held in Prague from June 5
to June 8, two members of the Fedora\
documentation team, Petr Bokoč and Peter Boy, led a\
session on the state of Fedora documentation. The pair covered a
brief history of the project’s documentation since the days of [Fedora Core 1](https://lwn.net/Articles/56036/ … ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD laptop support update
The FreeBSD Foundation
has announced
a report
for work completed in April to improve FreeBSD support for
laptops. This includes installer updates, improved suspend/resume
behavior, as well as progress on [a\
port of Linux 6.7 and 6.8 graphics drivers](https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pro … ⌘ Read more

Bridget Archer changes tack to back Hobart stadium ‘100 per cent’
Former federal Liberal MP Bridget Archer once said a Hobart AFL stadium was “unnecessary”. Now she says she supports the project, just days after seeking Liberal preselection for a possible state election. ⌘ Read more

Perth’s first east-west rail connection opens after 18 months of disruption
The Thornlie-Cockburn link and adjacent rail elevation in Perth’s south-east is part of WA Labor’s flagship infrastructure project Metronet. ⌘ Read more

The premier says WA is helping to reduce global emissions. Is there truth to this?
The WA government claims gas produced in WA is needed to help other nations steer clear of coal and decarbonise after the approval of a 40-year extension to the North West Shelf Karratha project. ⌘ Read more

Current toy project: an image feed generated by mk(1). Still some edges to clean up but it’s nice: http://a.9srv.net/img/_readme.html

Up to 500,000 Indians were displaced by a dam. Their story is now a play
India’s Narmada River was the lifeblood of countless farmers and villages until a dam project caused a massive ecological disaster. It’s now the subject of a new Australian play. ⌘ Read more

Anger as major renewable projects in Victoria get the green light
Permits for two renewable energy projects in regional Victoria have been approved despite community opposition. ⌘ Read more

Queensland treasurer draws ‘line in sand’ on CopperString funding
The Queensland treasurer says private investment is key to delivering the multi-billion-dollar energy transmission project, CopperString 2032. ⌘ Read more

[$] Open source and the Cyber Resilience Act
The European Union’s
Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has caused a stir in the
software-development world. Thanks to advocacy by the Eclipse Foundation, Open
Source Initiative, Linux Foundation, Mozilla, and others, open-source software
projects generally have minimal requirements under the CRA
— but nothing to do with law is ever quite
so simple. Marta Rybczyńska spoke at Linaro Connect 2025 about the impact of the
CRA on the open-source eco … ⌘ Read more

Project Defiant: Sony stellt Arcade-Fight-Stick für PS5 und PC vor
Stick und Spiel: Sony hat ein Eingabegerät speziell für Fighting-Games vorgestellt - und eine Klopperei mit Marvel-Helden. ( Playstation 5, Sony)

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Strategy 2028 update (Fedora Community Blog)
Outgoing Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller has posted an update
on Fedora’s high-level plan through 2028:

[Fedora] Council members identified potential Initiatives that we
believe are important to work on next. We came up with a list of
thirteen — which is way more than we can handle at once. We previously
set a limit of four Initiatives at a time. We decided to keep to that
… ⌘ Read more

[$] Safety certification for open-source systems
This year’s
Linaro Connect in Lisbon, Portugal featured a number of talks about the use of
open-source components in safety-critical systems. Kate Stewart gave a keynote on the topic
on the first day of the conference. In it, she highlighted several projects that
have been working to pursue safety certification and spoke about the importance of
being able to trace software’s origins to safety. In a talk on the second day, Roberto
Bagnara shared his ex … ⌘ Read more

Liberal Lee Jae-myung projected to win South Korea’s snap presidential election
The election comes after six months of turmoil sparked by a shock martial law briefly imposed by former leader Yoon Suk Yeol. ⌘ Read more

Brisbane’s Exhibition station to reopen for major events
The station has been closed in recent years while it underwent a significant upgrade as part of Brisbane’s Cross River Rail project. ⌘ Read more

[$] OpenH264 induces headaches for Fedora
Software patents and workarounds for them are, once again,
causing headaches for open-source projects and users. This time
around, Fedora users have been vulnerable to a serious flaw in the OpenH264 library for
months—not for want of a fix, but because of the Rube\
Goldberg machine methodology of distributing the library to Fedora
users. The software is open source under a two-clause BSD license; the RPMs are … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, International Sex Workers’ Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/02/sex-workers.html #programming #project #devjournal

‘Stain on this nation.’ Exhibition calls out Indigenous incarceration rates
The over-representation of Indigenous people in Australia’s jails is at the centre of a new and powerful art exhibition at Melbourne’s Heide Museum of Modern Art. It’s curator says it’s a “call to action”. ⌘ Read more

Drivers slam ‘astronomical delay’ of WA road duplication project
Work on a 17 kilometre stretch of road in Western Australia’s South West is still going, five years after it began. ⌘ Read more

Olimex Showcases Open Source €20 Smart Home Server Project
Olimex has recently highlighted a new open-source hardware and software project aimed at creating a €20 smart home server. The initiative was introduced during a lightning talk at TuxCon 2025, a community-driven open-source conference held earlier this month in Bulgaria. The project aims to deliver a compact, easy-to-use smart home server that prioritizes local control, […] ⌘ Read more

[$] Out of Pocket and into the wallabag
Mozilla has decided to throw in\
the towel on Pocket, a social-bookmarking
service that it acquired in 2017. This has left many users scrambling
for a replacement for Pocket before its shutdown in July. One possible
option is wallabag, a
self-hostable, MIT-licensed project for saving web content for later
reading. It can import saved dat … ⌘ Read more

4 trends shaping open source funding—and what they mean for maintainers
Get insights on the latest trends from GitHub experts while catching up on these exciting new projects.

The post 4 trends shaping open source funding—and what they mean for maintainers appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

[$] Glibc project revisits infrastructure security
The GNU C Library
(glibc) is the core C library for most Linux distributions, so it is a
crucial part of the open-source ecosystem—and an attractive
target for any attackers looking to carry out supply-chain
attacks. With that being the case, securing the project’s
infrastructure using industry best practices and improving the
security of its development practices are a frequent topic among glibc
developers. A recent discussion suggests that improveme … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, Memorial Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/26/memorial.html #programming #project #devjournal

No Github

Please don’t upload my code on Github!

I’m thinking about putting this up on all my projects and even on the front page of my Gitea instance 🤔

Top Stories: iPhone 17 Air Details, Apple’s Smart Glasses, and More
WWDC is coming up quickly with a number of software announcements in store, but we’re also looking further ahead to hardware launches like the iPhone 17 lineup and even Apple’s smart glasses project.

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This week also saw big news with former Apple design guru Jony Ive joining forces with OpenAI to build future AI-driven devices, while Fortnite return … ⌘ Read more

My vision with this newsletter is to have a slower medium for communicating about my art as well as ideas and projects I’m working on regarding how we can use digital technology to our own benefits instead of being exploited by big tech.

Twtxt not sloe enough for you? 🤣

Shine a spotlight on your open source project
Celebrate #MaintainerMonth with two big opportunities to showcase your open source project at GitHub Universe and WeAreDevelopers World Congress. Applications are open. Don’t miss out!

The post Shine a spotlight on your open source project appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket
Mozilla has announced
that it is shutting down Pocket, a bookmarking service acquired by Mozilla
in 2017, this coming July. “Pocket has helped millions save articles
and discover stories worth reading. But the way people use the web has
evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match
their browsing habits and online needs.” ⌘ Read more

Home Assistant deprecates the “core” and “supervised” installation modes
Our recent article on Home Assistant
observed that the project emphasizes installations using its own Linux
distribution or within containers. The project has now made that emphasis
rather stronger with this\
announcement of the deprecation of the “core” and “supervised”
installation modes, which allowed H … ⌘ Read more

[$] Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools
In late March, version 78.0.1 of Setuptools — an important
Python packaging tool — was released. It was scarcely half an hour before
the first bug\
report came in, and it quickly became clear that the change was far
more disruptive than anticipated. Within only about five hours [78.0.2 was\
published to roll back the change](https://setuptools.pypa.io/e … ⌘ Read more

[$] Debian AI General Resolution withdrawn
Despite careful planning and months of warning, Debian developer Mo
Zhou has acknowledged that the project needs more time to grapple with
the questions around AI models and the Debian Free Software Guidelines
(DFSG). For now, he has withdrawn his proposed General Resolution (GR)
that would have required the original training data for AI models to
be released in order to be considered DFSG-compliant—though the
debates on the topic continue. ⌘ Read more

i switched my bookmarks site from espial (unmaintained project) to linkding, and while i’ll miss espial’s simplicity, i do appreciate linkding’s power and the provided API.

at first i got auth working with my SSO (authelia) and was happy, but i want my public bookmarks available without login… and i couldn’t configure my proxy to make that work, because of issues with sub paths, which sucks. so i switched to linkding’s built-in auth. inconvenient, but worth it to share my bookmarks.

https://bookmarks.4-walls.net/bookmarks/shared

On my blog: Developer Diary, Malcolm X Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/19/malcolm-x.html #programming #project #devjournal

An Asahi Linux 6.15 progress report
The Asahi Linux
project, which supports Linux on Apple Silicon Macs, has published a
progress report ahead of the 6.15 kernel’s release.

We are pleased to announce that our graphics driver userspace API
(uAPI) has been merged into the Linux kernel. This major milestone
allows us to finally enable OpenGL, OpenCL and Vulkan support for
Apple Silicon in upstream Mesa. This is the only time a graphics
driver’s uAPI has been merged into the kernel independent … ⌘ Read more

Oniux: kernel-level Tor isolation for Linux applications
The Tor project has announced
the oniux utility which provides Tor network isolation, using Linux
namespaces, for third-party applications.

Namespaces are a powerful feature that gives us the ability to
isolate Tor network access of an arbitrary application. We put each
application in a network namespace that doesn’t provide access … ⌘ Read more

[$] The future of Flatpak
At the Linux Application\
Summit (LAS) in April, Sebastian Wick said that, by many metrics, Flatpak is doing great. The Flatpak
application-packaging format is popular with upstream developers, and
with many users. More and more applications are being published in the
Flathub application store, and the
format is even being adopted by Linux distributions like
Fedora. However, he worried that work on the Flatpak project itself
had s … ⌘ Read more

[$] Faster firewalls with bpfilter
From
servers in a data center to desktop computers, many devices
communicating on a network will eventually have to filter network
traffic, whether it’s for security or performance reasons. As a result,
this is a domain where a lot of work is put into improving performance:
a tiny performance improvement can have considerable gains.
Bpfilter is a
project that allows for packet filtering to easily be done with BPF, which can
be faster than other mechanisms. ⌘ Read more

Documentation done right: A developer’s guide
Learn why and how you should write docs for your project with the Diátaxis framework.

The post Documentation done right: A developer’s guide appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Guix project migrating to Codeberg
The Guix project has announced
that it is migrating all of its Git repositories, as well as bug
tracking and patch tracking, from Savannah to the Codeberg Git forge.

As a user, the main change is that your channels.scm
configuration files, if they refer to the
git.savannah.gnu.org URL, should be changed to refer to
https://codeberg.org ... ⌘ [Read more](https://lwn.net/Articles/1020885/)

On my blog: Developer Diary, International Nurses Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/12/nurses.html #programming #project #devjournal

Thanks to @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz and her shelf I finally spent several hours in the woodshop. I wanted to build two drawers for the workbench and thought that I will complete this project in no time. I’ve been so wrong again. ;-)

I didn’t draw any plans, just measured a few times and then went to cutting a bunch of particle board leftovers at the table saw. I routed rebates on the sides, fronts and backs to lap the boxes and sink in the bottom. It turned out that having no plans was a stupid idea. I cut exactly on the lines as I calculated and measured, however, the math in my head fell apart when it eventually met reality. The bottoms are too short, so I gotta glue on some strips. Also, with the longer fronts, the sides won’t work either, I have to fix them as well. :-D

Finally, the lid of my cyclone bucket broke when the negative pressure got too large. Oh well. It was just an old wood glue bucket, I’ve got another empty one, so I can use that lid but strengthen it first with some plywood. Something for future Lyse to deal with.

All in all, it was still good fun. Wood (haha) do it again, but at least with some sketches on paper. ;-)

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz maybe i’ll try to incorporate it into my PHP fanlisting project if i can find a use for an HTMX component

** Dad shrapnel **
In a flash I think I“get” liveliness in relation to programming. It’s talked so much about in the context of programming systems and languages — as being something they do or do not intrinsically have or support…but what if it’s actually about the process of doing the thing, and not inherent to the thing you do it with. A noun-gerund kinda dichotomy.

Left with dad shrapnel, 5 minutes here, 20 there, 120 on the horizon, with which to poke at projects what if the key to collaboration is liveliness? Sporadic, low … ⌘ Read more

[$] A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant: general impressions
Those of us who have spent our lives playing with computers naturally see
the appeal of deploying them though the home for both data acquisition and
automation. But many of us who have watched the evolution of the
technology industry are increasingly unwilling to entrust critical
household functions to cloud-based servers run by companies that may not
have our best interests at heart. The Apache-licensed Home Assistant project offe … ⌘ Read more

GNOME Foundation announces new executive director
The GNOME Foundation has announced
the hiring of Steven Deobald as its new executive director.

Steven has been a GNOME user since 2002 and has been involved in
numerous free software initiatives throughout his career. His
professional background spans technical leadership, cooperative
business development, and nonprofit work. Having worked with projects
like [XTDB](htt … ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz That’s cool. Also, looks like a fun woodworking project in case you exceed the hundred slots. :-) The plywood lap joints might be quite repetetive, but gang cutting them with a story stick or some other fixture shouldn’t be too terrible.

OpenSUSE removes the Deepin desktop
The openSUSE project has posted a\
detailed explanation on why the Deepin Desktop has been removed
from the distribution; it comes down to a history of security problems and
a deliberate bypass (by the packager) of openSUSE’s security review.

Perhaps tired of waiting, the packager decided to try a different
avenue to get the remaining Deepin components into openSUSE
skirting the review … ⌘ Read more

Home Assistant 2025.5 released
Version\
2025.5 of the Home Assistant home automation system has been released.
With this release, the project is celebrating two million active
installations. Changes include improvements to the backup system, Z-Wave
Long Range support, a number of new integrations, and more. ⌘ Read more