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Coming back from FOSDEM 2016
In the good tradition about writing a blog post on my way back from a FOSDEM (see earlier installments e.g. for 2012, 2010, 2008, and 2007), here is this year's take. No issues with transportation this time (I'm still in the train, but it looks good so far), other than road construction works at the venue, which itself seems to establish a tradition now ;) This year I stayed in the Be Manos hotel – near to Gare du Midi – which was quite nice. Since I find myself being too old for the pre-FOSDEM beer event, I did not...
Towards the end of 2015
'Tis the season to let the year pass by and make plans for the next one. 2015 was what I'd call a "transitioning" year. Although LaTe App-Developers had been shut down in 2014, we still had to spend most of 2015 to work on some things our clients already paid for. This is now finally done and I can move forward looking for new endeavors. Here's a bunch of my plans for 2016: First off, I'll attempt to bring three iOS-apps in the AppStore. These apps will be completely new versions of those that I did while working with my...
State of Sway - December 2015
I wrote sway’s initial commit 4 months ago, on August 4th. At the time of writing, there are now 1,070 commits from 29 different authors, totalling 10,682 lines of C (and 1,176 lines of header files). This has been done over the course of 256 pull requests and 118 issues. Of the 73 i3 features we’re tracking, 51 are now supported, and I’ve been using sway as my daily driver for a while now. Today, sway looks like this:
For those who are new to the project, sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor. That is, your existing i3 configuration file will work as-is on sway, and your keybindings will be the...
Bring more Tor into your life
Tor is a project that improves your privacy online by encrypting and bouncing your connection through several nodes before leaving for the outside world. It makes it much more difficult for someone spying on you to know who you’re talking to online and what you’re saying to them. Many people use it with the Tor Browser (a fork of Firefox) and only use it with HTTP.
What some people do not know is that Tor works at the TCP level, and can be used for any kind of traffic. There is a glaring issue with using Tor for your daily browsing - it’s significantly slower. That being said,...
My "new" issue tracker installation
I'm absolutely relying on working with issue trackers for managing features, bugs, and releases. Although it's always a bit cumbersome to teach (new) clients how to properly use it (it takes quite some hand holding and improving their tickets), sooner or later they all realize that it's way better than the chaos we get by tossing Excel sheets back and forwards. Although we shut our company LaTe App-Developers down last year, my colleague and me are still using our old redmine 2.x installation to support existing clients. For new projects, I recently started to look into the current state of...
Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
I’ve noticed that more and more projects are using things like Slack as the chat medium for their open source projects. In the past couple of days alone, I’ve been directed to Slack for Babel and Bootstrap. I’d like to try and curb this phenomenon before it takes off any more.
Problems with SlackSlack…
is closed source has only one client (update: errata at the bottom of this article) is a walled garden requires users to have a different tab open for each project they want to be involved in requires that Heroku hack to get open registrationThe last one is a real stinker. Slack is not a tool built...