Plasma Active

After a series of horrible fuckups (and I’m not using this word lightly here) by Lenovo, they’ve finally replaced my laptop with a 2nd gen X1 Yoga. I’ve finished building Plasma from git (which I need for development work) and thought to give powertop a whirl to check how we’re doing in terms of battery… Continue reading Energy-Saving Plasma →

As a means to give our work direction and a clearer purpose, KDE is currently in the process of soul-searching. Here’s my proposal of what we should concentrate and focus on in the coming years. I’d welcome any feedback from the community to make ... [More] this proposal better, and rally up more support from the community,… Continue reading Privacy Software → [Less]

Convergence, or the ability the serve different form factors from the same code base, is an often discussed concept. Convergence is at the heart of Plasma‘s design philosophy, but what does this actually mean to how apps are developed? What’s in it ... [More] for the user? Let’s have a look! First, let’s have a look at… Continue reading Plasma Mobile and Convergence → [Less]

I’ve been trying macro photography and using the depth of field to make the subject of my photos stand out more from the background. This photo of a parrotfish shows promising results beyond “blurry fish butt” quality. I’ll definitely use this ... [More] technique more often in the future, especially for colorful fish with colorful coral in… Continue reading Parrotfish → [Less]

This morning, on a dive at Sha’ab Iris, off the coast of Hurghada in the Red Sea, a white tip reef shark visited us for a swim-by.

As a founding member of our surf club, I’ve decided to do what what was long overdue and took my second surfing lesson. I went to a surfschool in Scheveningen at the North Sea, got in touch with an instructor, and after going over the water situation, currents, swell and technique, we went into the… Continue reading Surfing progress! →

This year’s Plasma Sprint is kindly being hosted by von Affenfels, a software company in Stuttgart, Germany, focusing on mobile apps. Let me try to give you an idea of what we’re working on this week. Bundled apps One problem we’re facing in KDE is ... [More] that for Linux, our most important target platform, we depend… Continue reading Plasma Meeting: Web, browsers and app bundles → [Less]

The calm days between christmas and new year are best celebrated with your family (of choice), so I went to Hamburg where the 33rd edition of the Chaos Computer Congres opened the door to 12.000 hackers, civil rights activists, makers and people ... [More] interested in privacy and computer security. The motto of this congres is “works… Continue reading 33C3: Works for me → [Less]