Earlier this year, two years after AMD engineers contributed packages the HIP/ROCm stack to the Guix-HPC channels, Guix developers migrated the whole HIP/ROCm stack into Guix proper, starting with version 7.1.1. This was quite a milestone as it makes HIP/ROCm first-class citizens and gives them…
read more ➔New release of Firefox DevTools MCP. Available on npm at https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mozilla/firefox-devtools-mcp Fixed set_firefox_prefs and get_firefox_prefs work again. They now use WebDriver BiDi to run in the privileged context list_pages no longer fails when the URL or title of a tab…
read more ➔I wanted to start this post with saying September was a bit of a slower month, as I was on vacation for a good chunk of it, but turns out that still quit some things happened Nautilus The pathbar completion improvements I mentioned in the last post landed. Completions are now reused when in the…
read more ➔London's musical entertainment scene has something for everyone - from long-running blockbuster shows to no-name bands in dingy basements. Somewhere in the middle is monophonic plainchant versions of the Halo theme sung in a church. The acoustics at St Martin in the Field are echoey. That makes it…
read more ➔Emma does several jobs for me. It runs Cuirass for Guix builds and a Forgejo Actions runner, and I would like to add more services without discovering too late that CI ate the machine. My first instinct was to give each workload a quota: 11 GiB and four CPU cores for builds, 2 GiB and one core for…
read more ➔Servo 0.6.0 contains all of the changes we landed in August, which came out to 417 commits! The big news is that we’ve turned on support for CSS Grid by default (@nicoburns, #45621). This has had a huge positive impact on the visual appearance of many websites! We’ve shipped several new web…
read more ➔SRFI 286 is now in draft status. R7RS Scheme allows programs to query library presence at macro-expansion time using (cond-expand ((library ⟨library name ⟩) ...)). However, when an implementation ships a shared library tree across interpreters built with different feature…
read more ➔I'm a theatrical cheapskate. I'm on all those last-minute seat-filler websites. I'll happily take a chance on an experimental play for a tenner a ticket or sit in an inexplicably unsold cheap seat at a major show. My philosophy is that the worst seat at the best show is preferable to the best seat…
read more ➔Guix is all about empowering people, so it should come as no surprise that one can extend it with new guix commands . You can show the commands available in your current Guix through the help command: $ guix help If you are using a recent Guix, there are a number of extensions at…
read more ➔Encryption is woven into everyday digital life. It protects our messages and passwords, but also banking and payments, health data, government services and the digital infrastructure societies rely on every day. Yet across jurisdictions, governments are increasingly considering laws that expand…
read more ➔Firefox is teaming up with AEG and taking to the main stage at Berlin’s biggest and best indoor arenas. Starting this October, as the indoor music scene heats up and the basketball and ice hockey seasons are in full swing, fans flocking to the Uber Arena, Uber Eats Music Hall, and Uber Platz will…
read more ➔Today, we are very pleased to announce two new additions to the Mozilla Corporation Board of Directors: Jambu Palaniappan and David Parry-Jones. As we build the next chapter of Mozilla, we’ve been focused on bringing people onto our Board who combine deep operating experience with a real…
read more ➔We see loads in the news about oil prices, the potential shortages caused by wars involving Iran and Russia and whether the UK should licence further oil extraction from existing oil fields in the North Sea. I wondered whether there was a mappy project opportunity around oil production and…
read more ➔It has been another productive month working on GNOME Design and Community Management as part of my Sovereign Tech Fellowship, and I want to share some of the most interesting developments. Introduction I want to begin by highlighting how much the Sovereign Tech Fellowship has changed the conditions…
read more ➔One hundred days ago, Mozilla released Over The Edge 2.0, the second independent report from leading experts on deceptive design Dr. Harry Brignull and Cennydd Bowles, on how Windows, Edge, Bing, and Copilot are designed to steer people away from the browser they chose. We published the report,…
read more ➔We are pleased to share progress with the Responsible AI Initiative (RAI). Following its launch in April 2026, the RAI community developed its charter, which Vice President Jeff Genender presented in the August board report: “The ASF Responsible AI Initiative is a program to support the open source…
read more ➔I don't know why hardware manufacturers find it so hard to write decent documentation. As I've said before you need to actually test your readme. The Una Watch development instructions are scattered across a bunch of different files. So here's how to go from zero to your first "Hello, World!"…
read more ➔This content is exclusive to RSS and Atom subscribers. It is not on the web. Shhhhh! A few weeks ago I accidentally broke some of your feed readers. I was using <![CDATA[ … ]]> blocks in the feed. That allows me to put in raw HTML without the need for escaping. Unfortunately, some feed readers…
read more ➔With the news that the BBC are tendering for a new series of Doctor Who, I thought I'd write down what I want from the show. This is, to be fair, pure fan-service wankery with zero chance of being made. I've based it on the oft-made observation that Hollywood is obsessed with remaking successful…
read more ➔I've never been a huge fan of smart watches. My £16 smartwatch is basically fine, but the OS is closed source and there's no way to add new functionality. Previously I had the eInk Watchy which was a pain to use and really poorly designed. Even back in 2014 I was bemoaning the design compromises…
read more ➔SRFI 269 is now in final status.This SRFI defines a portable API for test definitions that is decoupled from test execution and reporting. It provides four definition forms: the universal is macro for assertions, testing for giving groups of assertions human-readable context, test for grouping…
read more ➔What do you use your smartwatch for? A few weeks ago, I overheard a conversation between someone on the Pixel Watch team and a woman I know. He was quizzing her at a party about her Pixel watch and what features she used. He'd ignored me when I said I had a non-Google watch. She thought for a…
read more ➔Instead of simply updating my Guix home profile I ended up on a small scavenger hunt trying to fix a dependency of one of my audio packages.
read more ➔Like sticky popcorn, this is a moreish but ultimately unsatisfying set of stories. After I flamed out of Dungeon Crawler Carl, someone suggested I try this series. I can see why! It's campy sci-fi fun, with enough tropes to keep you chuckling and enough tension to keep you turning the pages. …
read more ➔For a while now I've wanted a tool to help in a number of areas:
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