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:

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

StarFive VisionFive v2 and FreeBSD

This week I powered up the StarFive VisionFive v2 board that I have. I figured I would give FreeBSD another whirl on it, in the vague hope that RISC-V boards are a more cohesive family than ARM boards were five years ago. tl;dr: I didn’t get it to work as…

via [bobulate] May 20, 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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