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Sometimes making CI work on old branches, for security bugs, feels like retrocomputing.

My big bike's bag is getting kind of ratty.

I'm thinking of helping a friend set up a podcast. She's moderately technical and I wouldn't mind doing some of the hosting work. What's a good podcast hosting software? Ideally something that makes it easy for the owner to upload their mp3 or whatever?

Printing crosswords is going to make me bring back my experiments on how thin a line can a consumer printer produce.

Peeps, any suggestions to debug "ssh connects but doesn't transfer anything to a particular host" that starts working when I disable ipv6?

Congratulations and much appreciation to @npub1xdcf...dv8q, the recipient of this year's #GNOME Pants of Thanks award!

LibreOffice just took my presentation, and moved all the slide notes one slide out of phase. I don't know how to fix it except cut&paste the page's objects and then the notes to another presentation by hand.

Well well well, spicy hummus and brie was an unexpectedly good combination on my sandwich.

Toluwaleke Ogundipe, my intern for gnome-crosswords, has published a fantastic post on profiling the Crosswords renderer and making it around 10x faster -

Profiling Crosswords’ Rendering Pipeline – Toluwaleke's Blog

GNOME Crosswords renders its puzzles with an elegant grid-and-overlay system—until it needs to do it at scale. In this post, I dive deep into pro...

Dear programmers who only speak English: Not all languages work like yours. Please don't make assumptions that all languages can be dissected character-by-character like if they were English. Thank you.