Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 02, 2025

• MJ Fransen ☛ Spellcheck in Emacs on OS X Mavericks with MacPorts

  Using MacPorts I installed GNU Emacs, it installed version 30.1, which takes quite some time because it needs toe compile software from source code.

  Yesterday I upgraded MacPorts and the installed software, which again resulted in a lot of compile time, and now it runs Emacs 30.2.

• Cory Dransfeldt ☛ Importing artist and album data from Navidrome

  Since adopting Navidrome to stream my own music I've been tracking my listening activity from my instance and have recently added pages for all of the albums in my collection, with a record for each track and the track list and track duration displayed on the album page.

• University of Toronto ☛ In GNU Emacs, I should remember that the basics still work

  GNU Emacs has a spectrum of things that range from assisting your conventional editing (such as LSP clients) to what are essentially nearly full-blown applications that happen to be embedded in GNU Emacs, such as magit and MH-E and the other major modes for reading your email (or Usenet news, or etc). One of my personal dividing lines is to what extent the mode takes over from regular Emacs keybindings and regular Emacs behaviors. On this scale, MH-E is quite high on the 'application' side; in MH-E folder buffers, you mostly do things through custom keybindings.

• The Science Perl Journal ☛ Call for Papers & Participation - Perl Community Conference, Winter 2025 | The Science Perl Journal - Published in Austin, Texas, USA

  All accepted Papers from this Conference will be included in Issue #3 of the Science Perl Journal.

• Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

  • Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice project and community recap: August 2025

    Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… Every six months – in February and August – we release a new major update to LibreOffice.

• Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)

  • Paul Robert Lloyd ☛ Twice as nice: Introducing the NHS.UK Eleventy Plugin

    We wanted to create a plugin that provided the same level of customisation as the existing plugin, but without too much duplication. We considered two approaches: [...]

• Education

  • DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ Next NYCBUG meeting: Sept 3 – DragonFly BSD Digest

    NYCBUG’s got a new meeting space to try out, and it’s on September 3rd. Go, if you are near.

  • Don Marti ☛ installfest notes

    We had a Linux installfest at the Alameda Free Library and got a pretty decent turnout. Some of us were there all day and we had people coming in and out as intended. So yay us.

• Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

  • Open Data

    • Rlang ☛ Linear Model with Feature Engineering: Silver Prices Surge

      According to the machine learning model, the bands are down, and the price is above the upper band, indicating anomalous price levels.