Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Linuxiac ☛ Bat 0.25 Command-Line Tool Introduces Powerful Line-Squeezing
But wait, you haven’t heard of the bat command? Let me break it down for you: it’s a smarter alternative to the traditional cat with some pretty nice additions, such as efficient syntax highlighting, line numbering, automatic paging, Git integration, and more. Now, back to the novelties.
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Jeff Triplett ☛ 🤔 Rethinking Django's Command-Line Tool: Why We Should Rename `django-admin`
Django has been a key tool for Python web developers for many years. But as new frameworks like FastAPI become prevalent, it’s important to ensure Django stays easy for new and experienced developers. Recently, a discussion thread received over 60 comments about changing Django’s main command from django-admin to something else, like django. The thread also explored other django-cmd possibilities, showcasing many ideas. While the conversation was broad, I want to focus on why renaming django-admin is a good idea.
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Undeadly ☛ rpki-client 9.4 released
As announced by Job Snijders on the FediVerse rpki-client 9.4 has been released.
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Events
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Bootlin ☛ Bootlin at FOSDEM 2025 and co-located events
The highly popular and super interesting FOSDEM conference will as usual take place the first week-end of February in Brussels.
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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PostgreSQL ☛ pgspot 0.9.0 released
We are excited to announce the release of pgspot 0.9.0, a new version of our vulnerability checker for PostgreSQL SQL scripts. This release changes the used parser to the PostgreSQL 17 parser and fixes some bugs.
- Fix plpgsql RETURN QUERY EXECUTE handling
- Update pglast to 7.2 which makes pgspot use the PostgreSQL 17 parser
See full release notes for more information.
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Arduino ☛ Export data from Arduino Cloud to AWS S3
Managing your IoT data just got a whole lot easier — Arduino Cloud, now lets you send your time series data straight to AWS S3. With this seamless connection, organizing and analyzing your data is a breeze.