Thinking inside the box
A new minor release 0.2.5 of our RcppRedis package arrived on CRAN today. RcppRedis is one...
Thinking inside the box
A new minor release 0.2.5 of our RcppRedis package arrived on CRAN today. RcppRedis is one...
Thinking inside the box
The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...
Thinking inside the box
The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...
Thinking inside the box
The twentysecond release of littler as a CRAN package landed on CRAN just now, following in...
Who pays the cost of progress in software?
I am told, by friends who have spent time at Google, about the reason Google Reader...
Reproducible Software Releases – Simon Josefsson's blog
Around a year ago I discussed two concerns with software release archives (tarball artifacts) that could...
Thinking inside the box
A new release 0.1.7 of RcppZiggurat is now on the CRAN network for R. This marks...
Minor outage at Teksavvy business - anarcat
This morning, internet was down at home. The last time I had such an issue was...
Losing the war for the free internet - anarcat
Warning: this is a long ramble I wrote after an outage of my home internet. You'll...
Jamie McClelland | AI's Actual Impact
Two years after OpenAI launched ChatGPT 3.5, humanity is not on the cusp of extinction and...
Installing a desktop environment on the HP Omen
`dmidecode | grep -A8 ‘^System Information’` tells me that the Manufacturer is HP and Product Name...
15th Anniversary of My First Debian Upload
Time flies! 15 years ago, on 2010-03-18, my first upload to the Debian archive was accepted....
Thinking inside the box
Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It...
Using actions to build this site
As promised on my previous post, on this entry I’ll explain how I’ve set up forgejo...
Eigen macro specializations crashes
There's an issue in the Eigen linear algebra library where linking together objects compiled with different...
Configuring forgejo actions
Last week I decided I wanted to try out forgejo actions to build this blog instead...
What’s New for FreedomBox in Debian 13 “trixie” – James Valleroy
FreedomBox is a Debian blend that makes it easier to run your own server. Approximately every...
Article Recommendations via FOSS
Google tracking everything we read is bad, particularly since Google abandoned the “don’t be evil” plan...
Getting precise timings out of RS-232 output
For uninteresting reasons I need very regular 58Hz pulses coming out of an RS-232 Tx line:...
Libreoffice Conference 2024 in Luxembourg
Last year, I attended the annual LibreOffice Conference in Luxembourg with the help of a generous...
Extrinsic termination proofs for well-founded recursion in Lean – Blog – Joachim Breitner's Homepage
A few months ago I explained that one reason why this blog has become more quiet...
My Debian Activities in February 2025
This was my hundred-twenty-eighth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started...
Thinking inside the box
An update to our package RcppNLoptExample arrived on CRAN earlier today marking the first update since...
Improving Debian packaging in Kate - Things that I work on in Debian
The other day, I noted that the emacs integration with debputy stopped working. After debugging for...
Thinking inside the box
A new release 0.1.13 of the RcppSimdJson package is now on CRAN. RcppSimdJson wraps the fantastic...
Bits from FOSDEM 2025 | Blog de Paulo Santana
This year I was at FOSDEM 2025, and it was the fifth edition in a row...
Nix Notes - anarcat
In case you haven't noticed, I'm trying to post and one of the things that entails...
8k Video Cards
I previously blogged about getting an 8K TV [1]. Now I’m working on getting 8K video...
Shop scheduling with PuLP
I recently used the PuLP modeler to solve a work scheduling problem to assign workers to...
Reproducible Builds in February 2025 — reproducible-builds.org
Welcome to the second report in 2025 from the Reproducible Builds project. Our monthly reports outline...
Thinking inside the box
Welcome to post 46 in the $R^4 series! r2u, introduced less than three years ago in...