Monthly report - February

Hello,

I continued to slowly work o Falkon and also resumed work on Falkon Plugins and once again started to fill Falkon store.

I am also slowly investigating / researching Falkon Qml API which should work out of box on all platforms (while some may have problems with Python), the API is insufficient, in other words “there are too many restrictions”. I document my progress at file which can be found in _drafts folder of this repository.

Falkon contribution

  • Speeddial can now properly work with Unicode characters 406095
  • SearchBar - Show number of matches found on page search 395429

On a side note, I am preparing a VPS with nice domain to move this blog and many other things on. My domain and VPS are up just for few weeks and I already have too many bots to kick out.

Articles from blogs I follow:

Ooo, what does this disk do?

I have a pile of hard drives. 3.5” Spinning rust. There’s like a dozen of them, some labeled cryptically (EBN D2), some infuriatingly (1) and some not-at-all. Probably most of them work. But how to effectively figure out what is on them? FreeBSD to the re…

via [bobulate] January 29, 2026

The reasons for the big discrepancy between satisfied vs dissatisfied developers using AI for coding

To some developers AI seems to be the best thing since sliced bread, while to others, AI is more or less useless. I set out to investigate a little about why there is such a big difference in opinion among developers. This is just some my observations.

via unixdigest.com January 27, 2026

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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