News from the Planet

Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind, I was really happy to choose Tailwind. It helped me make a lot of tiny sites! I spent the last week or…

By Greg Stein, Apache Software Foundation Member and STeVe Contributor Every year, roughly 800 members of the Apache® Software Foundation cast votes to elect a Board of Directors, admit new members, and decide the direction of one of the oldest and most important institutions in open source. No…

Last year I said I'd probably never recommend another Bambu Lab printer again. I still use my P1S, but after Bambu Lab started pushing their always-connected cloud solution as the new default: I blocked the printer from the Internet via my OPNsense Firewall I stopped updating the firmware I locked…

A tutorial on searching, streaming, visualizing, and downloading NASA Earth observation data inside QGIS using the NASA Earthdata plugin and OpenGeoAgent for natural-language and voice workflows.

A tutorial on using OpenGeoAgent with the QGIS Timelapse plugin to generate Landsat, MODIS, GOES, and Esri Wayback timelapse animations from natural language and voice prompts.

Apple introduced the HomePod mini six years ago, in 2020. I'm not one into smart speakers, but the feature that made me take a closer look was their ability to form stereo pairs, without any direct wired connection. I know there are other speaker manufacturers with wireless speakers, but to my…

The schedule for Community Over Code Glasgow 2026 is live, with an expansive program: 168 sessions across 18 tracks, spanning four days in October. Whether you’re running infrastructure at hyperscale, modernizing a fintech stack, or trying to figure out what responsible AI governance actually looks…

While Guile Scheme has a lot of hidden gems, like (ice-9 peg), parsing command line arguments is not one of its strengths in my opinion. Even if there are many powerful approaches to structured argument parsing, there is no API simple enough for me to know it by heart (as opposed for example to…

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…

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.

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.