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Each year, Mozilla welcomes interns who work alongside our engineering teams on projects that ship to production and improve the experience for contributors around the world. This year, Ayush joined the Firefox Localization team to work on Pontoon, Mozilla’s open source localization platform, where…

We are preparing version v4.0.0 of the QGIS Plugins Website (https://plugins.qgis.org), a planned milestone release scheduled for 13 July 2026. Below is a summary of what is coming and how it may affect plugin developers, so you can review ahead of time. Highlights This will be our first major…

I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is. Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal revelations is amusing for the first…

Hi Mozillians, welcome to another Mozilla community roundup! This month, we’re taking a look at what’s next for Firefox. From an upcoming visual refresh and a peek behind the new design system to hidden features you may never have used before. We’re also highlighting a recent Reddit AMA on the new…

I couldn't remember something for weeks. It popped into my head during a run — a relief, even though the memory itself was not pleasant. This episode of my flaky mind reminded me of this movie.<I won't give you even a hint of what the movie is about. The strength of it is not the premise, but the…

After I published my map of defence spending a friend suggested that it would be interesting to see how things had changed since the end of the Cold War in 1990/91. I knew that the data I had covered a longer time period so I asked Claude if we could update the map and it checked the data and…

Week 24 This week's icon is for Jiří Eischmann's project: Meshy: "Meshcore mesh network client" Check out all weekly app icons created so far over here and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including…

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.7.0alpha1! Best Served with PostgreSQL 19 Beta1 and GEOS 3.15 which will be released soon. This version requires PostgreSQL 14 - 19beta1, GEOS 3.10 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.15+ is needed. To take advantage of…

The first half of summer has flown by. I'm quickly catching up on six busy weeks here. 53 hours, 52 minutes all training 130.1 miles running and hiking 16,220 feet D+ running and hiking That's about 9 hours of exercise, 22 miles of running and hiking, and 2,700 feet D+ per week. I've been active…

This was a little idea gnawing at the back of my brain. The humble barcode has been in use since the 1970s. In the next few years it will likely be replaced with a 2D QR Code. I couldn't find anyone who'd made a QR code with an embedded UPC - so I decided to make one. If you move your phone…

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from June 26 to July 3. Third Party Projects Haydn Trowell says The latest version of Typesetter updates the built-in Typst compiler to version 0.15, which brings a long-awaited feature: variable font support – no more warnings and faulty…

Over the past few weeks, I have been writing the backend for the vocabulary-puzzle generator for Crosswords. But what entirely dictates a valid word placement whilst being mindful of all edge cases and managing the state of the puzzle upon the exploration of possible solutions? Finding valid…

Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were more globally known. Here's the thing. No. All my blog posts start with a simple…

By compiling GNU Emacs directly from the upstream Savannah repositories, you unlock the absolute bleeding edge of the extensible, self-documenting operating system disguised as a text editor. True autonomy over your computing environment sometimes involves building your own tools and customizing…

SRFI 124 is now in withdrawn status. An ephemeron is an object with two components called its key and its datum. It differs from an ordinary pair as follows: if the garbage collector (GC) can prove that there are no references to the key except from the ephemeron itself and …

SRFI 254 is now in final status.This SRFI describes three concepts associated with the storage management of a Scheme system, ephemerons, guardians, and transport cell guardians. An ephemeron is a record structure with a key and a value field. An ephemeron can be broken. Breaking an…

Apache® Magpie provides open source maintainers with platform infrastructure for agent-assisted repository maintainership Wilmington, DE –  June 29, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apache Magpie has become…

Thanks to BookSirens for providing me with a review copy. This is an intriguing self-published novel with a backstory almost as interesting as the plot. The story is a descent into paranoia as an author is convinced that an AI is plagiarising his work. As the madness takes over, he's forced to…

Despite vowing not to read sequels of books I love, I'm constantly surprised that regression to the mean is an iron-clad law of the universe. I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in the series, so eagerly gobbled up the second. What a burlap fool I am. What was charming and wry in The Satsuma…

Loko Scheme 0.13.0 is now available from: https://scheme.fail/releases/loko-0.13.0.tar.gz https://scheme.fail/releases/loko-0.13.0.tar.gz.sig A bootable disk image for 64-bit PCs is available…

I'm not paying seventy bloody quid for an official PS5 controller - so I found a knock-off version for a smidge under £40. And this one has lots of unnecessary blinkenlights! Gamrombo is the consumer-facing brand of the generically named Professional Controller Manufacturer. AKA "Huizhou Ronghui…

This is a quick post, mostly for my own reference. I've avoided LUTs and 'Log' video footage for years1, mostly because of the extra tiny bit of workflow involved. Like RAW photos, 'Log' footage retains the video sensor's full dynamic range, so you can pull more color and luminance information out…

I find it baffling just how poorly documented most big projects are. Auth0 by Okta has a fair bit of cash, lots of customers, and almost completely absent documentation. Here's how to successfully authenticate a JWT supplied by Auth0. Once your user has authenticated with Auth0, they will be given…

SRFI 276 is now in draft status. This SRFI is an updated version of SRFI 144 that allows an implementation to support multiple flonum representations. Each flonum has its own separate library. Each library also has the ability to inspect properties of the flonum operations, such as rounding …

I made this for the Lisp Game Jam Spring 2026, and a month later I have a much more complete role-playing game: UNDER STONE 1.1 release! Complete game with: Help! Saving! Job change! Items! Merchant! Second dungeon! WOW! $10 or PWYW. Get it now on itch.io