today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 10, 2025

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • TecMint ☛ 10 Best Ubuntu Extensions for Smarter Desktop Management

      Well, you’re not alone. By default, Ubuntu uses a customized version of the GNOME desktop environment, which believes in simplicity above all else, which means: fewer buttons, fewer options, and a heavy push toward Workspaces.

    • Ubuntu ☛ How we ran a sprint to refresh our design website, Part 2

      At Canonical, our design team is dedicated to providing valuable resources and insights into designing for open source, especially when it comes to complex products. Recently, we started a project to refresh our online presence, organizing a sprint to redesign our website. This article is the second part of a two-part series that takes you through the methods and tools we used to streamline and redefine our design team’s digital footprint.

  • Open Hardware/Modding

    • Purism ☛ Closing the App Gap; Focus and Momentum

      Every day, with every line of code, Purism works to advance technology forward in a way that truly respects individuals. We prioritize delivering the most secure products, with privacy protections built in by default. This means deliberately steering clear of harmful practices to protect the freedom and civil liberties of our customers.

    • Arduino ☛ Exploring the edge of design and biology with Arduino: inside the “Parasites and Robotics” workshop

      This summer in Berlin, a group of artists, designers, and curious minds gathered around a creative question: What can parasites teach us about robotics?

      Led by Salvador Marino, a transdisciplinary artist with a PhD in biology, the workshop “Parasites and Robotics” invited participants to explore the intersection of biology, sci-fi, and open-source hardware – all powered by the Arduino platform. Over five days of hands-on experimentation, attendees imagined and prototyped robotic bodies inspired by the strange and brilliant adaptations of the natural world.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Artyom Bologov ☛ My ed(1) Toolbox

    Apparently, I’m a huge ed(1) fan. I keep posting about it and use it as e.g. my Git editor, sudo editing tool, and my static site generator. But am I using it raw and standard as it is? Sometimes yes, but mostly no. This post is a listing of all the ed implementations and scripts I use.

  • Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

    • Unicorn Media ☛ We Asked LibreOffice and Collabora: Why Aren’t They in Schools Instead of Word and Surveillance Giant Google Docs?

      FOSS Force's Marco Fioretti asks LibreOffice's Italo Vignoli and Collabora's Naomi Obbard about why their software isn't used in more schools, and what can be done to turn that around.

  • Education

    • Olimex ☛ Retro Computer Repair party on September 17th at Olimex!

      At this event, we will demonstrate how to diagnose and fix typical issues with Apple II and Pravetz 8 computers.

      For this purpose, we will use a computer that was forgotten in the Olimex training building back in May during TuxCon conference soldering workshop.

    • Denys Poltorak ☛ Architectural Metapatterns

      When I was learning programming, there was Gang of Four. The book promised to teach software design, and it did to an extent with the case study provided. However, the patterns it described were merely random tools which had little in common. After several years, having reinvented Hexagonal Architecture along the way, I learned about Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture. The series had many more intriguing patterns, and promised to provide a system of patterns or a pattern language, but failed to build an intuitive whole. Then there were specialized books with Domain-Driven Design and Microservices patterns. There was the Software Architecture Patterns primer by Mark Richards. Its simplicity felt great, but it had only 5 architectural styles, while his next book, Fundamentals of Software Architecture, dived too deeply into practical details and examples to be easily grasped.

  • Standards/Consortia

    • Feld ☛ WebDAV Isn't Dead Yet

      FTP is dead (yay), SFTP is too dependent on SSH and unix authentication. AWS made S3 pervasive and now every webapp that needs to store files assumes you'll be able to connect it S3. This is good for Amazon, but painful for everyone else.