GNOME Shell Gets a Proper Desktop Photo Widget (Finally)
A customisable photo widget for your GNOME desktop that shows images from any folder you like. Resizable and moveable, it adds a cute touch for sure. You're reading GNOME Shell Gets a Proper Desktop Photo Widget (Finally), a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu....
OpenBSD gets CDE
Adjusted for the inevitable progress of time, the Common Desktop Environment or CDE is the best desktop environment of all time, and no, I will not be taking question at this time. OpenBSD wasn’t yet graced by CDE’s presence, but this is currently ...
Intro to the Lit: A standards-based reactive library
Lit is an interesting option among front-end JavaScript frameworks for reactive programming. It’s caught quite a bit of interest from developers, but remains relatively under-the-radar compared to some other reactive frameworks. Lit is built on top ...
First look: Guided code generation with Kiro
Kiro is the new Amazon Web Services IDE for creating software projects using agentic AI. A developer using Kiro creates a specification for the desired program, and Kiro uses Claude Sonnet (3.7 or 4.0) to iteratively generate a set of requirements, a ...
How to write a good bug report
Bug fixing is part of the job of every developer. Whether you are building a brand-spanking-new greenfield application or maintaining a 30-year-old ball of mud, you are going to have to fix bugs. Fixing bugs can be a challenge. Most of us have exp...
Intro to Lit: A standards-based reactive library
Lit is an interesting option among front-end JavaScript frameworks for reactive programming. It’s caught quite a bit of interest from developers, but remains relatively under-the-radar compared to some other reactive frameworks. Lit is built on top ...
AMD Zen 5 CPUs See First Microcode Updates In Linux-Firmware.Git
AMD yesterday upstreamed a batch of new CPU microcode files to linux-firmware.git as the de facto repository where component firmware/microcode is easily distributed to Linux distributions. This also marks the first time that Family 1Ah (Family 26) CPU...
Linux 6.17 Now Makes Multi-Core/SMP Support Unconditional
Earlier this year Linux kernel patches were posted for making SMP support unconditional so the kernel is always built for multi-core capabilities. With uniprocessor core environments being extremely rare especially for those that would be using an up-t...
