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Catching air in the middle of the deep-dive on Scheme bytecode interpreters.

Java 17, Jakarta EE 10, Spring 6—and a thousand dominoes 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. Stay…

How I did my part in saving the planet by getting an old but working audio interface up, running and mainlined in GNU Guix. Read the whole post here.

A step-by-step tutorial on installing the NASA OPERA QGIS plugin, searching and visualizing DSWx surface water products, and using an integrated AI agent to analyze flood events with natural language and voice commands.

Guix will be featured at the annual conference of the French Reproducible Research Network, 19–21 May 2026, Bordeaux, France.

A while back I decided to stop using Tailwind for new projects and to just write vanilla CSS instead. But one thing I missed about Tailwind was the colour palette (here as CSS). If I wanted a light blue I could just use blue-100 and if I didn’t like it maybe try blue-200 or blue-50. I’m not very…

Introducing OpenGeoAgent, an open-source multimodal AI agent that automates geospatial analysis and visualization in QGIS through natural language and voice commands.

Hello! One of my long term projects on here is figuring out how to write frontend Javascript without using Node or any other server JS runtime. One issue I run into a lot in my frontend JS projects is that I don’t know how to write tests for them. I’ve tried to use Playwright in the past, but it…

Pictured above is the new DeskPi Super4C installed in an 8U mini rack. The Super4C is a 4-node Raspberry Pi CM5 cluster board that solves two pain points I had with the older Super6C. I was testing this board around the same time I helped kick off the SBCC 2026, the Single Board Cluster Competition…

Support for remote controlling Windows PCs may be added to Raspberry Pi Connect, Raspberry Pi's free remote access service. When they announced Pi Connect in 2024, I speculated the service was launched in response to RealVNC's sluggish adoption of Wayland, leading to Pi users lacking a solid…

Dipankar Mazumdar is the Director of Developer Relations at Cloudera, leading global developer initiatives across lakehouse architecture and AI. He previously held advocacy and engineering roles at Dremio, Onehouse, and Qlik, contributing to open source projects including Apache Iceberg, Apache…

On the internet, anyone can make a request to your web service. Especially in this time of abusive web crawling linked to AI/LLM companies, it's essential to program in a defensive style and stay in control, even when faced with a volume of requests that can't be handled.

For years, the best way to get 10 gigabit networking on laptops was to buy an expensive, large, and hot 10 GbE Thunderbolt adapter. With new RTL8159-based 10G USB 3.2 adapters coming onto the market, the bulky adapters might be a thing of the past. Just look at the size of the thing in comparison to…

By: Jinwoo Hwang, Lead Developer, Project Lead, and Release Manager, Apache Geode 2.0 What Apache Software Deployers Need to Know Before May 2026 Effective May 2026, major public Certificate Authorities (CAs) will stop including the Client Authentication Extended Key Usage (EKU) in public TLS…

A step-by-step tutorial on building a developer blog with the MyST Markdown template, deploying it to GitHub Pages, and enabling GitHub Discussions-backed comments with Giscus.

From the people who power the community to the programs shaping its future, this month’s Plus One issue highlights what keeps The ASF thriving. Meet Jean-Baptiste Onofré in the new Plus One People series, and see how mentorship at OpenSource4You in Taiwan is turning first-time contributors into…

By: Piotr P. Karwasz, VP Logging, Apache Software Foundation The disclosure of Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) on December 9, 2021 did not just expose a vulnerability: it exposed a way of building software that was no longer fit for purpose, and it helped bring the European Cyber Resilience Act into…

Altering source files using the substitute procedure to search and replace text

Using the repair-friendly Framework 13 laptop chassis, I've tested the low-end x86 option (a Ryzen AI 5 340 Mainboard), the fastest RISC-V option (DC-ROMA II), and today I'm publishing results from the only Arm Mainboard, the MetaComputing AI PC, which has a 12-core Arm SoC and up to 32 GB of…

A step-by-step tutorial on writing journal articles in MyST Markdown with automatic PDF generation and website deployment using a GitHub template.

Over the past week or two I've been working on a new web framework for Guile. This is based on the knowledge I've accumulated over the past 7 years working on things like the Guix Data Service, Guix Build Coordinator and Nar Herder, but also based on their code, as I've used Claude Code running…

A step-by-step tutorial on building a personal CV website with MyST Markdown and Typst that automatically generates a PDF version of your CV from the same Markdown source.

/ver-teil-en/ [german]: to distribute, to spread, to deal out

A step-by-step video tutorial showing how to create and deploy a personal website using the MyST Markdown template and GitHub Pages, with no coding experience needed.

A GitHub template that bundles MyST Markdown, GitHub Pages deployment, Netlify PR previews, and pre-commit hooks into a ready-to-use starting point.