Week 22 This week's icon is for Krafting's project: Hex Colordle: "Find the color" Check out all weekly app icons created so far over here and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including sketches) on …
read more ➔The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has announced the release of its recommendations for using LLM-backed generative AI systems for FOSS contributions. The recommendations were created by the SFC and volunteers from the free-software community. The recommendations reflect the extremely…
read more ➔The 7.2 merge window started with the 7.1 kernel release on June 14. As of this writing, just over 7,000 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline for the next kernel release. Many of the core subsystems have been pulled at this point, meaning that most of the changes that can be…
read more ➔Version 4.6 of the Mastodon fediverse platform has been released. The headliner of this release is Collections, a way to create and share curated collections of profiles. Part of Mastodon's work ethos is our commitment to trust and safety, so we've put a lot of thought and care into the design…
read more ➔How can cloud providers efficiently supply durable virtual block devices? Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) provides a way for servers in a cluster to share chunks of memory, but there still needs to be a protocol that operates on top of RDMA to provide the guarantees expected of a block device.…
read more ➔Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dracut, podman, postfix, rsync, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Debian (atril, firefox-esr, and nginx), Mageia (libcap, perl, and python-pillow), Oracle (firefox, gstreamer-plugins-base and gstreamer-plugins-good, httpd:2.4, kernel,…
read more ➔This is the most overwritten book I've ever read. Unfortunately, Alan Moore knows exactly how much polysyllabic pressure it takes to transmogrify base coal into precious gems. With lines like "his shaved suede skull made him look like a wilted thistle" and "There was a rumour of pink lipstick…
read more ➔This month I’m mostly listening to music by Nu Genea, Danalogue and Noon Garden. I’m going to tell you about a big change I’m proposing for folks using Freedesktop SDK to build operating systems. And I’m also going to talk a bit about the GNOME Foundation elections. Maybe I’ll do that first. GNOME…
read more ➔There has been a video blog post recently published with a review of Ubuntu Touch as an option to opt out of the Android world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTK6TS3pXgc Thanks to @SwitchandClick for spending time on this and publishing that video. Much appreciated. Many Issues amended in…
read more ➔Over the years, QField has gained a number of ways through which authors can share their mapping projects. This post looks at the multiple ways this can be achieved and what scenarios fit each method best. Leveraging QFieldCloud Sharing maps to the public QFieldCloud users all have the ability to…
read more ➔Hello GNOME, This is a progress report on the Pitivi Timeline Ruler Rust rewrite. Progress We are rewriting the Pitivi Ruler in Rust and gtk4 snapshot logic to improve performance and memory safety. At its current stage the ruler is being constructed as a standalone widget in a personal repo that…
read more ➔Penpot WebGL and Bugfixes Penpot and WebGL Penpot released their WebGL rendered (beta) for all users to test. This brought speed gains in rendering content on page and less lag when navigating. Frame rate was worked on and the overall interface appears faster. Pages load much faster than…
read more ➔This year Qt Contributor Summit will be held in Oslo during late October. If you are a Qt contributor (developer, forum question answerer, promoter, etc) you should think of attending, it's always a great experience :) More info in the announcement at…
read more ➔The latest version of PerfCompare is now live! Check out the change-log below to see the updates: [andra - esanuandra ] PCF-391 The keyboard handling for the revision dropdown should be done differently (#926) [david - davidmiculit ] Bug 2040649 - Remove Raptor framework from PerfCompare…
read more ➔This is somehow the featured website on https://earlyweblinks.com/ this week. Read all about my web site here! https://earlyweblinks.com/site-of-the-week/joey-hess Kind of reminds me of back in 1995 or so when my website would randomly end up picked by some best of the web list that I never heard…
read more ➔The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.3.3, the third bugfix release for Amarok 3.3 "Far Above the Clouds"! 3.3.3 features a number of small bugfixes, e.g. to saving of window and context applet layouts, inhibiting suspend during playback and…
read more ➔Release 20 of the Qt Creator IDE adds support for working with AI coding agents, a Zen Mode that puts your code editor into the focus, support for the GN (Generate Ninja) build system, and many more improvements.
read more ➔This month in Radicle CI, June 2026 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…
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 ➔Very happy to share that a new package rspdlite arrived on CRAN today in its inaugural version 0.1.0-1. It wraps and provides the (header-only) C++20 library spdlite which its author describes (aptly) as tiny, fast, capable. Just like its bigger sibbling spdlog (which we wrapped as rcppspdlog), it…
read more ➔Excited that Bobby has been accepted as a GNOME Circle app! Screenshot of a SQLite table opened in Bobby Who’s Bobby? Bobby is a viewer utility. It displays tables from SQLite files. The most deployed database format in the world. That’s it. Whilst hacking on the backend of Auroras I was…
read more ➔This is supposed to be a blog post about Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) this year, but since I haven't written about the previous ones I went to, I decided to write about those as well. So this post will have bits of 2024 and 2025 in them as well, as far as I remember them, along with the experiences…
read more ➔This is a weekly update from my Google Summer of Code 2026 project with KDE, improving effect widgets in Kdenlive, a free and open source video editor. This week was driven entirely by reviewer feedback on MR !887; the draft MR for the Curves Widget. Point snapping instead of rejectionWhen two curve…
read more ➔WebDriver is a remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents. As such, it can help developers to verify that their websites are working and performing well with all major browsers. The protocol is standardized by the W3C and consists of two separate specifications:…
read more ➔The latest version of the Firefox Profiler is now live! Check out the full changelog below to see what’s changed: Highlights: [Nazım Can Altınova] Add source map symbolication and source view support (#6018) It requires Firefox changes that will land in Firefox 154, but after these changes, you…
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