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Web Review, Week 2026-02

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/01/09/web-review-week-2026-02/

Published: January 9, 2026 18:32

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-02. How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem Tags: tech, foss, community, ecosystem, github Github is definitely entrenched by now. Students and beginners hardly look for projects outside of…

QtNat – Open you port with Qt

http://renaudguezennec.eu/index.php/2026/01/09/qtnat-open-you-port-with-qt/

Published: January 9, 2026 17:38

QtNat is a lightweight C++ library built with Qt 6 that simplifies NAT port mapping using UPnP (Universal Plug and Play). It is designed to help developers easily expose local services to external networks without requiring manual router configuration for…

KDE Ships Frameworks 6.22.0

https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.22.0/

Published: January 9, 2026 00:00

Friday, 9 January 2026 KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.22.0. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner. New in this version Baloo…

Events in December 2025

https://carlschwan.eu/2026/01/08/events-in-december-2025/

Published: January 8, 2026 22:00

December was quite an eventful month for me, with over 4,000 km travelled by train. This was in part caused by the holidays and visiting family, but also by the KDE PIM sprint in Paris and the 39th Chaos Communication Congress. KDE PIM sprint in Paris From…

KDE Gear 25.12.1

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.12.1/

Published: January 8, 2026 00:00

Over 180 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear. Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations, including: dolphin: Allow migration for users…

Kraft 2.0 Announcement

https://dragotin.codeberg.page/posts/kraft-2.0/

Published: January 6, 2026 10:14

With the start of the new year, I am very happy to announce the release of version Kraft 2.0.0. Kraft provides effective invoicing and document management for small businesses on Linux. Check the feature list. This new version is a big step ahead for the…

What does it mean to write in 2026?

https://blog.cornelius-schumacher.de/2026/01/what-does-it-mean-to-write-in-2026.html

Published: January 4, 2026 21:58

I've been writing for something like 50 years now. I started by scribbling letters on paper as a child because I was fascinated that these expressed meaning. I wrote a lot for school, for university, for work, and privately. I wrote letters, emails, posts…

This Week in KDE Apps

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/04/this-week-in-kde-apps/

Published: January 4, 2026 17:21

A new whiteboard app, Vector-based map rendering in Itinerary, and new releasesWelcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. We kick off the year with…

39C3

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/01/04/39c3.html

Published: January 4, 2026 09:45

A few days ago I attended the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in Hamburg, Germany, as part of the KDE presence there. KDE Like at 38C3 in the previous year we had a small KDE assembly as part of the Bits & Bäume Habitat. There were two talks…

KDE Ni! OS – installing packages from source – Plasma Pass

https://cukic.co/2026/01/03/kde-ni-os-install-packages-from-source

Published: January 3, 2026 18:30

KDE Ni! OS is a custom flavour of NixOS that showcases KDE software. It builds on NixOS with the aim to reimplement the same features other popular immutable distributions have while providing a first-class KDE Plasma setup. This post will show the NixOS…

This Week in Plasma: new year, new accessibility features!

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/03/this-week-in-plasma-new-year-new-accessibility-features/

Published: January 3, 2026 00:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Plasma developers are starting to trickle back from their vacations, and are polishing up and merging work that was nearing completion late last year. Among them are some impactful accessibility features, plus…

Web Review, Week 2026-01

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/01/02/web-review-week-2026-01/

Published: January 2, 2026 16:58

And we’ve finally reached 2026! I wish you all lots of nice Free Software contributions and good news regarding sustainability. Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-01. How We Lost Communication to Entertainment Tags: tech, social-media,…

Oliebollen Recipe

https://euroquis.nl/blabla/2026/01/02/oliebollen.html

Published: January 1, 2026 23:00

This is a recipe post. Allergens: contains gluten, lactose, and alcohol. The oliebol is a Dutch thing for new year’s eve. From mid-November you can find stalls in front of supermarkets, at the home-improvement store, outside the mattress store, in squares…

39C3

https://jbb.ghsq.de/kde/2026/01/01/39C3.html

Published: January 1, 2026 21:12

Volker mentioned that we need better blog post coverage of events, so hereby I’m doing my part :) I attended the yearly 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3), together with a number of KDE people and my local hackerspace Spline. This year I wanted to…

My “job” as family admin or Linux rules the house

https://blog.bembel.net/2025/12/my-job-as-family-admin-or-linux-rules-the-house/

Published: December 31, 2025 15:01

Last week on Dec 26 we had the yearly family admin day and a day later 39C3 (the 39th Computer Chao Congress) started. I usually try to watch interesting talks about security, reverse engineering and hardware. Most if not all I wanted to join are available…