Purism is a company whose most important values are user freedom and privacy. So far the company had two models on the market, but they just introduced their new Librem 11. The Librem 11 is a detachable 11.6-inch 2-in-1 laptop / tablet. They also presented a 10-inch model, although they mainly focus on the 11-inch. …
While GNOME 3 is a fairly friendly desktop environment, there are some old habits that don’t die. When migrating to this version, there were several changes in interactions or behaviors that it gave as de facto standards. Some I got used to, others not. Luckily, in free software everything is customizable. The first tool I…
Continuing with the review of Firefox development tools, this time Mozilla Hacks covered what the Scratchpad and the Style Editor are all about. If you want to see the first part: Firefox Developer Tools, part 1: The Web Console and the JavaScript Debugger In this part of the series, the Style Editor and the Scratchpad…
If you visit the blog and do not read it from some other site or an RSS reader (no, they did not die with Google Reader!), You will notice that I radically changed the design. The last few times I’ve created a new WordPress blog theme, I always write it from scratch. This time was…
At work we are testing bug tracking systems, bug tracker, or bug tracking system, various ways of naming the same thing. In a software project, it is essential to keep track of errors in the code, even says Joel. It is very useful to maintain quality in our software, especially during the development stage, but…
Another list on “types of programmers”. Already at the beginning of the blog I commented on this, translating part of Jeff Atwood’s article on the two types of programmer. I also published a webcomic with the types of programmers, which includes a fairly extensive list. And if you look, there are many more lists on…
In the latest JUGUY newsletter, there is a link to an article that was published a while ago on the site, which I reproduce below: Juicy Supporting the tasks of increasing the number of users of its new multilanguage and multiplatform Netbeans 6 IDE and of publicizing new technologies based on Java, Sun has begun…
Gitray is a web application for viewing the files of a project on GitHub by emulating a text editor with a project directory tree. Author’s motivation: I found that I wanted a quick way to view a project without having to clone it and open it in Sublime. Navigating the GitHub site can be…
Meld is an application to compare files and directories and merge them (“join them?” For lack of a better word). It is part of the GNOME project and its core applications. In my days as a KDE user I used a similar tool: Kompare. I have not used tools of this type for a long…
The endoflife.date website is dedicated to maintaining links for the “End Of Life” dates of various tools and technologies. End Of Life generally means that the software is no longer under development, and will not receive even security updates. The reason the site exists is because such information is generally quite hidden in some…