Monthly report - January

Hello,

This was too short but also a very long month. Many things I wanted to do I was unable to and had to push it to the near future.

Artix Linux

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Falkon

After a long while the bug 409575 (Python plugins don’t load with PySide 5.13) has finally a working with Qt (PySide2) 5.14.1.
GreaseMonkey can now grab userscript URLs (*.user.js) with newer Qt versions. 6974f8c2
Falkon can now handle web notifications (since QtWebEngine 5.13) with it’s notification system 409045

Other

I helped to hunt very annoying bug in ktexteditor 413848 (Drag&copy function (by using Ctrl Key) does not work anymore)

Articles from blogs I follow:

Brownies Recipe

This is a recipe post. For an event I needed to make brownies for 100 people, so this time I decided to write down what I was doing, so that they would be sort-of-consistent. I even weighed things.

via [bobulate] June 24, 2025

Why is your open source project still hosted on GitHub?

Perhaps the younger generation don't know anything about the past "evils" of Microsoft and naively believe that Microsoft is now the good friend to open source, but the truth is that all Microsoft acquisitions of open source projects is a busi…

via unixdigest.com May 22, 2025

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

There's a common narrative that Microsoft was moribund under Steve Ballmer and then later saved by the miraculous leadership of Satya Nadella. This is the dominant narrative in every online discussion about the topic I've seen and it's a commo…

via danluu.com October 28, 2024

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