Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 06, 2025

• Manuel Matuzović ☛ I’m speaking at Web Day Out 2026

  The core idea of the event is to get you up to speed on the most powerful web platform features that you can use right now. I love that because it aligns perfectly with what I've been working on over the last couple of years: finding ways to break old habits to get the most out of CSS.

• Web Browsers/Web Servers

  • Mozilla

    • OMG Ubuntu ☛ This Add-On Brings Adaptive UI Colour to Firefox

      Firefox looks nice enough on Ubuntu, right? It fits in, which is all you can ask for — unless you love a pop of colour, that is. Which is where a neat, open-source Firefox add-on I was tipped to recently comes in. Ambient theme by Site Colour is not, repeat, not a standard theme. It dynamically re-colours the tab bar, toolbar and other top-of-the-window-bits baed on the dominant colour of the web page being viewed.

• SaaS/Back End/Databases

  • Ben Congdon ☛ TIL: SQLite's 'WITHOUT ROWID'

    By default, SQLite tables have a special rowid column that uniquely identifies each row. This rowid exists even if you have a user-specified PRIMARY KEY on the table. How this rowid column behaves is influenced by your PRIMARY KEY type.

• Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

  • Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice Conference 2026 and 2027

    LibreOffice Conference 2026 in Pordenone, Italy, and LibreOffice Conference 2027 in Gothenburg, Sweden LibreOffice Conference 2026 will be organised by PNlug (Pordenone GNU/Linux User Group) and the University of Pordenone in the city of Pordenone, on the university campus.

• Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

  • Open Access/Content

    • Taavi Väänänen: How to import a new Wikipedia language edition (in hard mode)

      I created latest Wikipedia language edition, the Toki Pona Wikipedia, last month. Unlike most other wikis which start their lives in the Wikimedia Incubator before the full wiki is created, in this case the community had been using a completely external MediaWiki site to build the wiki before it was approved as a "proper" Wikipedia wiki,¹ and now that external wiki needed to be imported to the newly created Wikimedia-hosted wiki. (As far as I'm aware, the last and previously only time an external wiki has been imported to a Wikimedia project was in 2013 when Wikitravel was forked as Wikivoyage.)

• Programming/Development

  • The New Stack ☛ Trae IDE Auto-Installs Python Libraries as You Code