Linux email client Geary is getting a responsive (phone-friendly) UI

I’m a big fan of desktop e-mail client Geary — it’s in our list of the best Ubuntu apps after all — so I’m particularly thrilled to hear that a “mobile version” is in the works. Okay, okay: I say “mobile version” but what I more accurately mean is a mobile “face” for the app. Y’know: a responsive interface designed to work well on a range of mobile devices, be it Linux phones like the Librem 5 or upcoming Linux tablets like the PineTab. Alex, aka BabyWogue, uncovered work on an adaptive UI for Geary in code on the Geary repo on the Purism Gitlab instance. He built it and, as you’d expect, demoes the current state of progress in a video on his YouTube channel (which you can see embedded below).

today's leftovers

• Finally Landed on Planet GNOME

  Should I start with a deep introduction? Not sure! Okay, let me start from my first time with Linux. I installed my first Linux when I was around 17, It was OpenSUSE. I just burned iso and booted, HAHAHA It was a magnetic disk era. After some years I was getting deep into Linux. I consider Linux as an Icecream. Lots of flavors to eat. Eat whatever you like. Or make your own flavor. 4-5 years ago I was jumping over multiple distros. I tried multiple linux distros. But now I'm settled on a custom build Debian distro. My first encounter with GNOME was on Fedora. I still love Fedora. But Debian is ultra-fast with only selected packages and easy to make its flavor. This is my short Linux story.

• Sound Recorder to modern HIG I

  I'm back, reporting here what's done so far. I decided to post about every change in sound recorder I'm working on but most of the work was behind a scene. I mean no UI change. But now new changes noticeable to end-users. I'm also writing this development blog cause, I don't wanna give chance to other people to spread some false information about development around (Social Media, YouTube). If you are reading this and you are working on any GNOME project, Please take 5-6 min and write about it frequently. As I told I'm working on GNOME Sound Recorder, recently I changed many things in the application.

• LibreOffice Tuesday T&T: Impress Presenter Screen

  LibreOffice Impress is a valuable presentation software, with plenty of advanced features. One of the most liked by skilled presenters is the so called Presentation Screen, which shows the current and the next slide on screen, and the notes. It helps the presenter to maintain the rythm of the presentation, and to remember the details of the talk. According to LibreOffice default configuration, the Presenter Screen shows only if the PC is connected to two displays. For some people this is a feature, for some others this is a bug.

• PeaZip 7.3.1

  PeaZip is an open source file and archive manager. It's freeware and free of charge for any use. PeaZip can extract most of archive formats both from Windows and Unix worlds, ranging from mainstream 7Z, RAR, TAR and ZIP to experimental ones like PAQ/LPAQ family, currently the most powerful compressor available.

• How CHAOSS Measures Open Source Community Health

  To learn more about the project, we spoke with Dawn Foster, Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware and member of the CHAOSS governing board. FOSSlife: Please give our readers a bit of background on the CHAOSS project. How did it originate and what are its goals? Dawn Foster: The community was formed as a result of a Birds of a Feather at the Linux Foundation Open Source Leadership Summit in 2017 out of a shared desire to collaborate on ways to measure open source project health. It was officially announced as a Linux Foundation project a few months later at the LF Open Source Summit North America. The idea was to bring together several different analytics tools, like GrimoireLab and cregit, into a coordinated effort while also developing metrics definitions that could be used by any implementation. [...] Dawn Foster: Anyone can participate in the CHAOSS project! I think sometimes people think that CHAOSS is all about software development on the tools we use to gather the metrics, and while that's an important part of what we do, it isn't everything. Most of the time, the working groups are discussing and defining metrics, which is something anyone can do. We collaboratively work together in documents to define metrics to better understand what questions they answer and why they are important in addition to talking about what data you might need to collect. In some cases, like with many of the diversity and inclusion metrics, qualitative measurements are an important element of the metrics definitions. We need people from all backgrounds with different skills to help us define metrics in a way that is useful for a variety of people and organizations. In addition to the metrics, CHAOSS is a fun community of smart and welcoming people, so it's a place where you can enjoy contributing!

• NVIDIA K8s Device Plugin for Wind River Linux

  The advent of containers has changed the way computational workloads are managed and orchestrated in modern computing environments. Given the paradigm shift towards the microservices, container orchestration has become of critical importance in today’s distributed and cloud systems [1]. Managing edge devices on the scale of hundreds and thousands is an onerous task. Fortunately, orchestrators such as Kubernetes take the complexity out of updates, roll-backs, and more in a platform-agnostic environment. [2]. Orchestrators provide the means to manage heterogeneous edge clusters. It is necessary to not only orchestrate containers but to discover the hardware specialized devices that the containers and orchestrator can leverage. Failing to manage these resources can lead to inefficiency, time drain, concurrency issues, and more.

Programming Leftovers: Smalltalk, C/C++, Perl, Python and More

• The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk

  Smalltalk actually had a surge of commercial popularity in the first half of the 1990s but that interest evaporated almost instantaneously in 1996. Most of the Gilad’s article consists of his speculations on why that happened. I agree with many of Gilad’s takes on this subject, but his involvement and perspective with Smalltalk started relatively late in the commercial Smalltalk lifecycle. I was there pretty much at the beginning so it seems appropriate to add some additional history and my own personal perspective. I’ll be directly responding to some of Gilad’s points, so you should probably read his post before continuing.

• Green Hills adds advanced software development tools support for RISC-V

  Green Hills Software has announced the availability and early customer adoption of its advanced software development tools targeting 32- and 64-bit RISC-V processor architectures. The MULTI integrated development environment, multicore debugger, optimising C/C++ compilers and hardware JTAG probe are intended for software developers targeting pre-silicon and silicon platforms using RISC-V.

• BLOG: The Weekly Challenge #063

  After the most difficult week (Week #062), it was very satisfying. I found both the tasks this week (Week #063) fun and challenging. The best part was that I could do both tasks in an hour, which is rare. I liked the “Rotate String” task very much. Thanks to Ryan, we already had test cases handy for the “Last Word” task. I will talk about each in detail down below.

• Perl Weekly Challenge 63: Last Word and Rotate String

  These are some answers to the Week 63 of the Perl Weekly Challenge organized by Mohammad S. Anwar.

• Report of May 26th Cubicweb Meeting

  Migrating CubicWeb to Heptapod and modifications in dependencies resulted in broken tests as it was presented last week. Work has been done on Friday afternoon thanks to Simon and Laurent, but it's not fixed yet. Tox is now happy but we still have a bug on a test that succeeds locally but not when run by the CI job. We do have a lead which may concern firefox usage in headless mode. Jobs logs are available here.

• Overcoming Incuriosity -- Sailing Over The Horizon

  I'm in regular contact with a few folks who seem remarkably incurious. Seem. Perhaps they're curious about something other than software. I don't know. But I do know they're remarkably incurious about software. And are trying to write Python applications. I know some people don't sail out of sight of their home port. I've sailed over a few horizons. It's not courage. It's curiosity. And patience. And preparation. I find this frustrating. I refuse to write their code for them.

• Parallel Iteration With Python's zip() Function

  Python’s zip() function creates an iterator that will aggregate elements from two or more iterables. You can use the resulting iterator to quickly and consistently solve common programming problems, like creating dictionaries. In this course, you’ll discover the logic behind the Python zip() function and how you can use it to solve real-world problems.

• PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #423 (June 2, 2020)

• Join consecutive lines if condition applies

  I recently looked at a TSV that had hundreds (!) of embedded newlines. Fortunately each of the "real" lines began with a serial number, and the breaks between lines were "clean" — no characters or spaces were lost or added. Below is a simplified file of this kind, "fruits".