Enlightenment 0.27.0 released
Enlightenment 0.27.0 has been released, and we’ve got some highly informative release notes. This is the latest release of Enlightenment. This has a lot of fixes mostly with some new features. ↫ Carsten Haitzler That’s it. That’s the release no...
Haiku Activity & Contract Report, December 2024 (ft. Iceweasel)
This report covers hrev58369 through hrev58486. Iceweasel The biggest piece of news from last month is the arrival of “Iceweasel”, a web browser built from Mozilla Firefox source code but without any official branding or registered trademarks, in t...
“The people should own the town square”
Mastodon, the only remaining social network that isn’t a fascist hellhole like Twitter or Facebook, is changing its legal and operational foundation to a proper European non-profit. Simply, we are going to transfer ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem...
WordPress is in trouble
It’s hard to see how to move forward from here. I think the best bet would be for people to rally around a new community-driven infrastructure. This would likely require a fork of WordPress, though, and that’s going to be a messy. The current open ...
Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest – December 2024
Happy New Year Thunderbirders! With a productive December and a good rest now behind us, the team is ready for an amazing year. Since the last update, we’ve had some successes that have felt great. We also completed a retrospective on a major pain po...
The history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes
One of the innovations that the V7 Bourne shell introduced was built in shell wildcard globbing, which is to say expanding things like *, ?, and so on. Of course Unix had shell wildcards well before V7, but in V6 and earlier, the shell didn’t impleme...
