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For the first time, I joined other users and developers of the GNOME project for the 2026 edition of GUADEC, held this year in A Coruña, Spain. As I am now a more active member of the i18n team, and the one living closest to A Coruña, it made sense that I should to attend this year. The i18n team…

Capture high-precision field data directly in Mergin Maps. Our new Network position provider feature enables seamless TCP/UDP connections to external GPS receivers.

Capture high-precision field data directly in Mergin Maps. Our new Network position provider feature enables seamless TCP/UDP connections to external GNSS receivers.

Capture high-precision field data directly in Mergin Maps. Our new Network position provider feature enables seamless TCP/UDP connections to external GNSS receivers.

This year, I got to attend GUADEC for the first time ever. For those unfamiliar, GUADEC is a conference usually held in Europe to let GNOME contributors and users from all over the globe to meet up, give talks, hack and get to know each other. Day 1 § After a lot of very stressful travelling…

For many years now, we have been enjoying the basemap.at service with it’s various basemap options (color, gray, with/without labels, …) in WMTS and vector tiles.</ Basemap.at Standard WMTS in QGIS (instructions here) For a few weeks now, there is an additional service by BEV: Their cartographic…

To call this derivative is an understatement. But that's what this genre demands; rehash all your favourite media properties into something new. It's the literary equivalent of having your Transformers™ fight your He-Man© toys. The plot, such as it is, features the Vogon Constructor Fleet…

It’s been nearly ten years since I posted my recipe for installing Ubuntu on a Hetzner machine. I needed to do that once again and the old instructions work pretty well! Let me post what I used this time around for completeness sake.   shred --size=1M /dev/sda* /dev/sdb* cat > postinstall.sh…

I've performed a talk at the last three EMFs - so this time I decided to go purely as a tourist. It made things much more relaxing. No waking up from a stress dream that my laptop didn't work. No casually dropping my talk into every conversation to build up an audience. No queueing for the loos five…

I didn't care for this book. It attempts to interweave botanical and cultural history with an autobiography and ends up doing neither particularly well. For every dose of poetry about the far-flung and exotic journey of the fruit, there's a dull recitation of facts from Wikipedia. Occasionally…

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is home to more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, all powered by a vibrant, global community of contributors. Among these projects, Apache Iceberg has emerged as a cornerstone of modern data architecture, revolutionizing how organizations manage…

The following changes have been pushed to bugzilla.mozilla.org: Github Link Bug 2055236 - The column headers in Github PR are barely visible in dark mode Bug 2054574 - Do not auto-assigning Hackbot when submitting a Phabricator revision Github Link The following changes have been pushed to…

AKA "Spectrum has gone down two weeks in a row and I'm sick of it". I've been borrowing a portable 5G gateway from my Dad for a few weeks, for testing... and two weeks in a row, I've used it as a backup Internet option, since my Spectrum Business cable Internet has gone down. And yes, I'd get…

We had a bumper release of WebExtensions API updates in Firefox 153. To start, there is a permissions change that affects how your extensions access local files. We then have two contributions from the community members: userScripts.execute() and the new publicSuffix API. We’re covering those…

As we head into the summer months, a new Extended Support Release (ESR) is in full bloom. Thunderbird 153 “Meadow” is out now, and from all of us at MZLA, the Thunderbird Council, and our global community of contributors, we can’t wait for you to try it out. “Meadow” builds on Thunderbird 140…

The latest version of PerfCompare is now live! Check out the change-log below to see the updates: [kala-moz] Add KdeModesPanel to expanded view (#1052) Dark Mode Bugs Fix (#1063) Bug 2037556: simplify wording of tooltip text for CD and CLES; fix dark mode links in tooltips…

In the midst of our AI slop revolution, traveling to the West coast for Open Sauce this past weekend was the perfect antiseptic for rising costs, summer heat, and online divisiveness. It's ironic, then, that I used Claude to vibe code my Tufty GPS Time Badge. Partly due to time constraints, and…

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…

I want to be able to share my location with my friends on social media. Twitter (RIP) had a way to attach an optional location to a post. Facebook still lets me check in to venues. But neither ActivityPub (Mastodon) nor AT Protocol (BlueSky) allow me to do that. I've been banging on about this for…

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…

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:…

Today, we’re excited to announce the Preview of Containers in Firefox version 153, which lets you keep separate parts of your online life (work, shopping, personal, banking) logged into different accounts in the same browser window, but keeps your cookies and ad tracking isolated inside each…

You’re planning a trip. Reading an article. Following a recipe. Then a question pops into your head. Sometimes it leads down a rabbit hole – with more searches, more tabs and plenty to explore. Other times, you just need a little context so you can get back to what you were doing. That’s why…

Tabs pile up fast on mobile. Imagine you’re planning a summer barbecue, and you start by searching for the best rib recipe. Twenty minutes later, you’re 17 tabs deep: comparing marinades, debating side dishes, checking the weather, making a grocery list and adding songs to a playlist. None of…

Wageningen, The Netherlands, 21 July 2026. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has established a legal foundation in Europe. The founding documents were signed yesterday. The new entity, Stichting Open Source Geospatial, has its statutory seat in Wageningen and operates under the OSGeo…