I’ve always loved train journeys, but with flygskam changing people’s travel preferences across Europe (and possibly worldwide, though probably not that much), I decided to take train to FOSDEM this time.
When I first went to FOSDEM which, just in case you don’t know, happens each February …
Rust has an exciting concept of enumeration types, which is much more powerful than enums in other languages. Notably C has the weakest type of enum, since there’s no type checking of any kind, and enum values can be used interchangeably with integers:
enum JobState {
PENDING,
STARTED,
FAILED,
COMPLETED …As I previously announced, I’m organising a BSP in Bratislava during the weekend following FOSDEM. It will be happening at the same time as the BSP in Berlin, so if it’s not practical or possible for you to come to Berlin, consider coming around here.
The venue this …
The Software Freedom Conservancy is having the last 7 days to collect the remaining less than $14 000 of the fundraiser generously matched by Private Internet Access. All donations up to $90 000 will be matched until 15 January.
Conservancy is an organisation sponsoring nearly 50 free software projects helping …
Hostapd and wpa-supplicant 2.7 have been in Debian experimental for some time already, with snapshots available since May 2018, and the official release since 3 December 2018. I’ve been using those 2.7 snapshots myself since May, but I do realise my x250 with an Intel Wi-Fi card …
This morning I have decided that this is the time. The time to finally remove the binary vconfig utility (which used to help people configure VLANs) from Debian. But fear not, the command isn’t going anywhere (yet), since almost six years ago I’ve written a shell script that …
As the maintainer of GNU indent, I have just released version 2.2.12 (signature), the first release GNU indent saw in eight years.
Highlights include:
-pal / --pointer-align-left and-par/--pointer-align-right`-fnc / --fix-nested-comment-gts / --gettext-strings-slc / --single-line-conditionals-as / --align-with-spaces-ut / --use-tabs-nut / --no-tabs-sar / --spaces-around-initializers-ntac / --dont-tab-align-commentsOn Friday, I will be attending LVEE (Linux Vacation Eastern Europe) once again after a few years of missing it for various reasons. I will be presenting a talk on my experience of working with LAVA; the talk is based on a talk given by my colleague Guillaume Tucker, who …
More than 1½ years since the first release of git-crecord, I’m preparing a big update. Not aware how exactly many people are using it, I neglected the maintenance for some time, but last month I’ve decided I need to take action and fix some issues I’ve known …