Category: Free/Open-Source software
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Year MMXIX summarized in 5 minutes
As part of my seven-years retrospective, here’s a 5-6 minutes readable summary of what I did in 2019. Personal life summary Q4 2018’s intense professional stress was replaced by emotional exhaustion in 2019’s Q1 and Q2. Caring for folks who have residual schizophrenia comorbid with depression and high-functioning autism, really is a lot of work…
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Year MMXVIII summarized in 4 minutes
Was super excited to see a GNOME hackfest focused solely on investigating performance issues in GNOME Shell, and the great work that happened from 2019 to 2021 on that front. It made a huge difference. Was thrilled that Mozilla finally got their sh!t together when it comes to performance in Firefox, with the initial release…
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The Software Upgrade Treadmill and Life’s crazy chain of dependencies — an epic tale about Firefox, GTG, Python, and Linux distros
Modern software update cycles now happen at a breakneck pace, and it can be a challenge for users to keep up. Life’s chain of dependencies to get back on track when a piece of your workflow breaks can be daunting. This epic tale illustrates the invisible struggle.
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The post-2020 Linux server landscape metamorphosis
It used to be that you could deploy a server, and forget it for years. The accelerated pace of web development puts pressure, and Red Hat’s changes to CentOS may be bringing about the biggest platform migration in years.
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CMSes & static site generators: why I (still) chose WordPress for my business websites
After much technological progress and considerations, I now have the tools to make this work in a way that meets my expectations.
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“Getting Things GNOME” 0.5 released!
It is time to welcome a new release of the Rebuild of EvanGTGelion: 0.5, “You Can (Not) Improve Performance”! This release of GTG has been 9 months in the making after the groundbreaking 0.4 release. While 0.4 was a major “perfect storm” overhaul, 0.5 is also a very technology-intensive release, even though it was done…
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A new data format has landed in the upcoming GTG 0.5
Here’s a general call for testing from your favorite pythonic native Linux desktop personal productivity app, GTG. In recent months, Diego tackled the epic task of redesigning the XML file format from a new specification devised with the help of Brent Saner (proposal episodes 1, 2 and 3), and then implementing the new file format…
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Blogging about Python desktop apps improvements on Planet Python
Hi, fellow pythonistas! Before I start publishing future Python-related posts to this aggregator, I would like to shortly introduce myself and the reason for this blog’s presence on the planet. I am a business management consultant, but I am also, in my spare time, an independent free & open-source software developer, designer and maintainer who…
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Les cônes oranges du libre: du ramollissement de l'enthousiasme face aux chantiers technologiques
Dans ce billet, l’ami “Antistress” (Thibaut) fait un état des lieux des grands changements technologiques du libre autour de la plateforme GNU+Linux depuis une quinzaine d’années, lorsque plusieurs d’entre nous ont commencé à utiliser cette plateforme plus intensivement. Il y laisse également transpirer un certain épuisement, ou “manque d’excitation”, qui est probablement ressenti par plusieurs…
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Activer la réduction de bruit en temps réel et l'annulation acoustique d'écho pour un microphone sous Linux avec PulseAudio (et faire croire aux gens que vous roulez en Porsche)
On se souviendra que j’avais témoigné de mon admiration pour le acoustic echo cancelling dans Empathy/Telepathy via PulseAudio il y a plusieurs années. Or, Empathy et Telepathy sont morts et enterrés, et WebRTC a largement pris leur place (ça, on le voyait venir) avec des applications comme Jitsi Meet, BigBlueButton, et plein de sites web…