news
Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
-
Jamie Zawinski ☛ XScreenSaver
XScreenSaver is the standard screen saver collection shipped on most Linux and Unix systems running the X11 Window System, since its first release in 1992.
-
Helen Chong ☛ Quickly Copy Code and Example Block Contents in Emacs Org Mode | Helen Chong, Web Developer
As I switched to Emacs (with Doom Emacs) as my main code editor, I had also begun to explore Org Mode, and later migrate most of my notes from Obsidian to Org mode, by using Pandoc and the Obs2Org Python package to convert my notes from Markdown format to Org format. This means Org Mode has become my primary note-taking tool.
-
Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
-
Ruben Schade ☛ Some October 2026 quality of life changes
In no specific order:
Removed the search box, because it wasn’t working. Not sure what I’ll replace this with yet. I’ll hopefully be able to leverage whatever CMS’s internal search tool is available when I move back off static-site generation.
Fixed the More Buttons sidebar link.
Updated the Slash Pages menu link to say /Pages. I like the concept of slash pages, but I despise the name. Sounds violent.
Made the header a bit narrower, to take up less space.
-
Naty S ☛ PSA: RSS and Atom XML Feeds Failure
I should have triple checked before pushing the revised XML templates live, but I failed to pick up on one of the very specific date syntax errors in the Tag URI I used for the ID field (Atom) and GUID field (RSS). The feed ID is a unique string for each entry; with my mistake deployed (before I fixed ~10 min later), feed readers saw the two different IDs for each post and thinks they’re new posts. Hence, the duplication nightmare… 😥
There were a lot of inconsistencies in my Hugo XML templates, which was what triggered me to update all of them (a dangerous move!) I made the following changes: [...]
-
-
GNU Projects
-
Licensing / Legal
-
Heather J Meeker ☛ Open Source Licensing Case in Russia
A recent case in Russia points up some of the challenges of proving authorship in open source contexts. This case was not an enforcement dispute, but it could have implications for such disputes in Russia. Here is a source in Russian for Case number. А40-139047/2026.
-