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Creating a player bot to automate Mankala

https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/creating-a-player-bot-to-automate-mankala/

Published: July 24, 2026 13:59

Hello everyone! Once again, I am here to share my fun experiences incorporating new features for Mankala.ProblemThis time I have built a bot server for Mankala where you can automate the entire game process of playing the game moves by using the server…

Web Review, Week 2026-30

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/07/24/web-review-week-2026-30/

Published: July 24, 2026 11:38

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-30. Online Friends Are Real Friends Tags: tech, internet, culture, life, friendship Indeed, friends we make online are no less real than the ones we see in the flesh first. I would know… guess how I made…

Opt Green Has Ended. Long Live Opt Green!

https://eco.kde.org/blog/2026-07-22-opt-green-end-part-i-repair-cafes/

Published: July 22, 2026 00:00

Part I: Repair Cafés As May came to an end, so did KDE Eco's "Opt Green: Sustainable Software For Sustainable Hardware" (German: Nachhaltige Software Für Nachhaltige Hardware) project. Read the announcement from 2024 at the project's start. It has been a…

Legal obligations vs social contracts

https://pointieststick.com/2026/07/21/legal-obligations-vs-social-contracts/

Published: July 21, 2026 22:35

My post about responsibility for bug reports on old software versions the other day stirred up quite some discussion, and I wanted to drill a bit more into what I think is the crux of the dispute: the difference between legal obligations and the social…

Minuet 26.08: call for testers

https://sandroandrade.org/minuet-26-08-call-for-testers/

Published: July 21, 2026 16:41

Minuet is a KDE's application for music education. It helps students and musicians train their ears with exercises for intervals, chords, scales, and rhythms. Minuet 26.08 is shaping up to be a particularly exciting release, with new ways to practice, a…

KDE for Enterprise Needs a Strong PIM Infrastructure

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/07/21/kde-for-entreprise-needs-a-strong-pim-infrastructure/

Published: July 21, 2026 07:06

This post has been long overdue, but let’s say I’ve been busy and the reason will be obvious in this short piece. ☺ As you might have heard a couple of months ago, the Sovereign Tech Fund did a large investment in KDE software development. From the…

Libre Graphics Meeting 2026

https://outsideofinfinity.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/libre-graphics-meeting-2026/

Published: July 20, 2026 23:18

Tuesday I arrived at Nuremberg after a very long travel and nearly no sleep, so I didn’t go to the “warming up” party in the bar, but instead met up with C. and we went to a Balkan restaurant (Balkan Spezialitäten) for dinner. We got Cevapcici sausages…

Qt Project Goals - call for submissions now open

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/07/qt-project-goals-call-for-submissions.html

Published: July 20, 2026 21:18

The Qt folks have taken inspiration in our successful KDE Goals and are starting the Qt Project Goals.The idea is to select goals that help focus on activities that we believe to be the most crucial for the near Qt future.Since KDE uses Qt extensively some…

Self-Hosting voice services (TTS, ASR, Wake Word)

https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2026/07/20/self-hosting-voice-services-tts-asr-wake-word/

Published: July 20, 2026 13:09

TL;DR https://codeberg.org/cryptomilk/crane-wyoming Where I started I use Home Assistant, and for text-to-speech (TTS) I’ve been running Piper through Wyoming Piper. Piper is a fast, local neural TTS engine originally built for the Rhasspy project and now…

Who’s responsible for bug reports on old software versions?

https://pointieststick.com/2026/07/19/whos-responsible-for-bug-reports-on-old-software-versions/

Published: July 19, 2026 18:45

Consider this hypothetical: An operating system (OS) ships version 1.5 of a piece of software. Meanwhile, the latest version of that software is 3.0. A user on that OS experiences an issue in version 1.5, or has an idea for a new feature. Who should they…

Small Icons, Big Problems

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/07/19/small-icons-big-problems/

Published: July 19, 2026 11:38

People tend to think an icon is a single drawing. One thing I think people miss (or at least some do) is that an icon isn't really one icon at all. The KRecorder microphone above exists as several different versions depending on size. In total that's…

OSM Indoor Mapping Workshop 2026

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/07/18/osm-indoor-workshop-july-2026.html

Published: July 18, 2026 06:30

Last weekend I joined an in-person workshop at HTW Berlin for discussing topics around mapping indoor spaces in OpenStreetMap. Indoor mapping Mapping indoor spaces is a somewhat niche topic in the OSM community still, but something that is quite relevant…

Week 6 + Week 7: Fixing bugs & writing tests

https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-6-week-7-fixing-bugs-writing-tests

Published: July 18, 2026 04:01

I spent the last 2 weeks mostly on fixing the bugs that were breaking font subsetting for annotations. One such bug was about deleting the original font which we talked about in the last blog. And there were some more edge-cases and type bugs. For eg: An…

This Week in Plasma: Shadows for Steam and Discord

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/07/18/this-week-in-plasma-shadows-for-steam-and-discord/

Published: July 18, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the bug-fixing spree of the past few weeks wound down as feature work and user interface polishing moved into the foreground. So let’s start out with something pretty darn user-visible: Notable new…