KDE: Klaas Freitag on Learnings from Building an AppImage and Adriaan de Groot Leaves Twitter, Changes Jobs
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Learnings from Building an AppImage
For some time I am offering an AppImage of Kraft to make installations for users as easy as possible. Unfortunately real linux packages are big effort for the variety of distributions, and having one way to rule them all seems very appealing.
My first AppImage versions were pretty faulty when looking into details. So I spent some time to improve it recently, with the great help of the friendly people from AppImage community.
Here is my little report about what I have learned. If there is something I can do better, please let me know (unless it is use $OTHERTOOL).
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Fosstodon!
I may retire the Twitter handle I got in 2010, but as a label it’ll live on in my Mastodon handle.
Insofar as I think about my “social media” profile at all, I’ve come to realise that the things I actually control are the most valuable.
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Work-work (in glass) | [bobulate]
Huh, I realised I had written “farewell” to Blue Systems and Calamares back in may – Calamares is still trundling along at a much reduced pace – but have not yet written about where I went to work. So, let’s fill in a little of that. I work at Vimec, which makes glass inspection machines. I went to work there because I know nothing about glass inspection, but I do know about C++, Qt, and CMake. So I’ll learn about glass while doing my usual software things.
One of the things I notice is how “Open-Source”-ish work is. Vimec is a small company, and I can best describe a work day as “like a KDE sprint, but only from 9 to 5”. I sit down at a Linux workstation, log into KDE Plasma (backed by Active Directory, that’s the corporate angle there), poke at GitLab to see what went down overnight, git pull to see what’s up, and then fire up the editor of my choice to get stuff done.
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I suppose I should have learned this, from prior job changes, but I notice that at the end of a day of KDE-like programming, I don’t have much energy left over for more actually-KDE programming. I sit down to do a little light Python or Haskell more than C++ these days, for kicks.