My sleek and modern Linux development machine in 2021
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My 2021 GNU/Linux development machine explained
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The state of Linux as a daily use OS in 2021
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Let's see what is the state of GNU/Linux, for daily use, in 2021 is and if its a viable alternative to Windows and macOS
Akademy 2018 wrap-up
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As I am writing this, I am sitting in a train home from Akademy 2018, KDE’s annual developer conference, which took place in Vienna this year. Akademy always is a great mix of some talks, some socializing with people you otherwise only communicate with through mailing lists or IRC, and some...
Akademy 2017 in Almería, Spain: Wrap-up
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Akademy, KDE’s annual developer conference, is over — and as always, it was a great experience! Thanks a lot to the local organization team, and of course to all the nice people attending and discussing things. A sequence of workshops writing their topic onto the blackboard, each replacing the...
Qt ♥ TUIO
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Qt, as a framework, makes extensive use of touch - particularly on mobile and embedded devices. Unfortunately, Qt isn’t readily able to magically make touch input appear on hardware that doesn’t support it, which can make exact testing of touch-related code difficult in typical developer...
Wayland and Qt 5.4
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Since nobody else has done the honors yet, I'm happy to announce that - as decided at the Qt Contributors Summit this year - support for running applications under a Wayland compositor will be seeing its initial release with Qt 5.4. That is, the QtWayland repository is finally going to stop...
profiling is not understanding
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When software goes slow, generally, the first reaction is to profile. This might be done through system tools (like Instruments on OS X, perf/valgrind/etc on Linux, VTune, etc). This is fine and good, but just because you have the output of a tool does not necessarily correlate to understanding...
sailing in search of fresh waters
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I've had a long, quiet time on this blog over the past few years while I've been frantically helping Jolla to launch their self-named product: the Jolla. I've enjoyed (almost) every day I've been there: they really are a great bunch of people and the work has been plentiful and challenging.But as...