I have a simple rule - if I meet someone at a party and they say they've written a book, then I will immediately buy that book. It's a strategy which has worked out well; leading me to some truly interesting and delightful prose. Rosalind Brown (a fellow UEA graduate) has written a stunning little…
In the first "The Matrix" movie we have the famous scene of Neo just
connected to the computer and opening his eyes and saying "I know kung
fu". Something that was really cool in early 2000 sounds like a
dystopia to me nowadays.
I don't want to "know kung fu", I want to practice Kung Fu! So I
prefer…
Empowering Conservation Through Open Technologies with 52°North and PEOPLE-ECCO
The Challenge
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are key actors in the conservation and restoration of ecosystems worldwide. However, practice-oriented conservation groups face a major hurdle: evaluating the…
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The following changes have been pushed to bugzilla.mozilla.org:
Bug 2087000 - Sometimes phab “last modified” timestamp updates without actual changes to the revision
Bug 2081860 - Migrate Bug REST resource to native Mojo API: bug objects (get, search, create, update,…
Last week, I received confirmation from my college's human resources department
I was awarded tenure. If you ever worked in the academic world, you know how
big of a deal this is.
In our fast moving and ever-increasingly unstable world, it is a pretty strange
feeling to know you have a stable,…
Most of my modules these days are XS. Devel::Cover tells me the one line of Perl in them is fully covered and says little about the C underneath. Devel::XSCover fixes that with a single command.
Bugs resolved in Moz-Phab 2.24.0:
bug 2078583 moz-phab reorg --force can fail part way and leave the Phabricator stack tangled
bug 2082342 Move lando warnings knowable at submit time to moz-phab
bug 2086803 Resolve each command’s flags and config into a frozen options object
bug 2087605 moz-phab…
At the recent EMFCamp, I bumped in to Professor Kate Devlin who was talking a little about the AI Resist List. I think one of the useful things we can do is loudly complain about shitty uses of AI. Here's an example. As mentioned in a previous post, I'm contacting companies which send malformed…
As with my last post on AI, let me open with a statement:
Just because most people hold AI a certain way, doesn’t mean that we always must, either now or in the future.
As I noted in that piece, and my shades of gray post, I am well aware — and agree with — the notion that a lot of frontier AI…
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.7.6.
Plasma 6.7 was released in June 2026 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds two months’ worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are…
The rustup team has published a new point release of rustup, 1.29.3.
Rustup is the recommended tool to install Rust, a
programming language that empowers everyone to build reliable and efficient
software.
What's new in rustup 1.29.3
This new patch release has fixed some minor regressions over the…
Fedora 45 is now available ! 🎉
So let’s see what this new release for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants includes for Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic and COSMIC Atomic.
Note: You can also read this post on the Fedora Magazine.
Changes for all Atomic Desktops
Completed the…
Welcome to the Q3 2026 edition of the Firefox Security & Privacy Newsletter.
Security and privacy are core principles of Mozilla’s Manifesto and remain at the heart of Firefox’s development. This edition highlights key initiatives from Q3 2026 across three areas:
Firefox Security: New security…
After some cleanup and refactor, I’ve published the code of the KDE
builder dashboard that I
wrote about some days ago to invent.kde.org/ivan/kde-builder-dashboard.
I tweaked the look a bit. Failed projects are now on the top, and
missing optional dependencies only take 33% of the screen.
This is…
All three of us discussed the recent issue GH24977 about how the behaviour of interpolation in regexp quotes changes under use strict in latest blead perl. We feel this is a change that needs more thinking and adjustment before it reaches a stable perl release.
Aside from that, the mailing list and…
2026-11-16 (online) Punk: Perl MVC, compiled at boot by Robert Acock (LNATION) 2026-11-21 London Perl & Raku Workshop 2026 2026-11-27 YAPC::Tokyo 2026 2026-11-29 (online) Everyday date and time handling in Perl with T by Eugen Konkov 2026-12-06 (online) Using LLMs as coding agents by Maximilian…