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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2025-01-12 at 19:45

Now that poetry supports PEP-621, I spent couple of hours updating all my projects to be compatible. In case of Pelican plugins, that also meant aligning to current community tooling baseline, which involved fixing a number of issues that ruff complains about.

Not exactly how I wanted to spend this Sunday, but I'm glad it's now over and hopefully I won't have to do anything like that in next few years.

[#]python #OpenSource #programming

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2025-01-03 at 15:44

Is there a tool/website that I give it a link, and it gives back social media posts by author that contain that link? Or at least gives links to author profile on various social media sites?

I mostly read through RSS. Sometimes I read and think "wow, I would like to share/boost original author post on social media, too!" And I wonder if there is something that would make that last part easier.

[#]askfedi #help #rss #indieweb #web #smallweb #tech #Support

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-12-14 at 14:25

Article discussing new defaults: https://pointieststick.com/2023/05/11/plasma-6-better-defaults/

Things to look out for in Plasma 6 on Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/Plasma%206

Updating Debian to pipewire (not strictly related, but you might modernize the entire stack while you are there): https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-12-14 at 14:25

Just updated my Debian machine to Plasma 6. Pretty uneventful - I had to install one or two missing packages, revert few of new defaults and re-create my custom keyboard shortcuts that got lost.

Overall, big congratulations to entire KDE community!

[#]linux #kde #kde6 #plasma #Debian

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-12-02 at 17:49

I just finished #TheWeeklyChallenge 298 and man, checking subsets of matrices was NOT fun. I wonder if #RakuLang has built-in structures for 2D arrays that make problems like that a breeze?

[#]programming

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-11-18 at 21:40

I was thinking about task 2 in today’s #PerlWeeklyChallenge and after few false starts I found out this is essentially multiway number partitioning problem with k=4. I’ll probably go with greedy number partitioning algorithm and call it a day.

https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-296/

[#]programming #TIL #compsci

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-11-12 at 22:46

I find Linux virtualization stack confusing. KVM? ibvirt? QEMU? Xen? What does that even mean? So I wrote a post in an attempt at making sense of that all. Hope it clears things up, and let me know if I missed a mark somewhere.

https://mirekdlugosz.com/blog/2024/understanding-linux-virtualization-stack/

[#]linux #blog #kvm #QEMU #xen #virtualbox

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-10-22 at 18:04

Have you read “Software Testing Strategies. A testing guide for the 2020s” by Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen? If not, maybe my review will convince you. And if you did, do you share my impression?

https://mirekdlugosz.com/blog/2024/software-testing-strategies-by-heusser-and-larsen-review/

[#]testing #blog #software #book #review

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-06-17 at 19:01

The Bus Route task in today #PerlWeeklyChallenge was surprisingly difficult, but I had fun thinking about it. I uploaded my solution to GitHub.

There are few obvious optimizations I have not pursued (storing only the minimum arrival time instead of list, taking advantage of result not changing until current minute passes departure time, taking advantage of fact that next-after-closest becomes closest once current minute passes departure time).

https://github.com/mirekdlugosz/theweeklychallenge/commit/2136f592c0c70533e19ab8bc185b22ef46738ec9

[#]rust #programming

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-06-02 at 14:11

Is there a course/website/book/etc. that would focus on teaching CSS how it can be used today?

I learned webdev back when we positioned elements with float and IE6 compatibility was a concern. I know fundamentals. I picked some new things along the way. But I wonder how you would work when you don't shoehorn new things into outdated models I grew up with.

[#]css #help #fedihelp #web #WebDev #question

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-05-02 at 22:26

My monthly @AST Board of Directors work report is up on my blog. If you would like to become a better tester, advance the practice of software testing or just want to support my work, come join us!

https://mirekdlugosz.com/blog/2024/ast-bod-report-april-2024/

[#]testing #OpenSource #blog #software #softwaredevelopment

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-04-27 at 20:30

If you've been wondering if Rust executable created today is going to still work in the future, then the answer seems to be "yes". Read how I reached this conclusion on my blog:

https://mirekdlugosz.com/blog/2024/rust-binaries-stability/

[#]rust #blog #linux

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-04-25 at 18:58

What do you use to back up local files from Linux to external hard drive?

I have been using rsnapshot, but maybe there are better solutions out there?

Does anyone have an experience with btrfs and snapshots? Do you trust it?

[#]Linux #techsupport #fedihelp #helpdesk #help #Support #Backup #softwarerecommendation #btrfs #OpenSource #question

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-03-20 at 21:32

Is there something like guake/yakuake, but the editor?

Basically, I want a window where I can type text, which I can show and hide quickly. I want it to automatically save. I need to set background color and font; bonus points if I can change window size and position.

I use Fedora Linux with GNOME. Can be extension or standalone program.

[#]linux #askfedi

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-03-14 at 19:44

I converted all the images on my website to WebP and discovered that few of them are actually larger than in JPEG/PNG format. Here's a short blog post with more details:

https://mirekdlugosz.com/blog/2024/dont-blindly-serve-webp-format/

[#]web #WebDev #blog

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2024-02-25 at 21:52

I really dislike file names given by many ebook retailers. I don’t know why I never thought about using metadata from file itself to generate a new name.

But now I did :) : https://github.com/mirekdlugosz/ebook-name-from-metadata

I use it right from file manager context menu thanks to awesome KDE feature: service menus https://develop.kde.org/docs/apps/dolphin/service-menus/

[#]rust #OpenSource #KDE #ebooks #epub #PDF

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2023-10-07 at 15:38

Reviewing my past work often gives me warm feelings - I notice omissions or mistakes that I didn't notice at the time, and that gives me a sense of how much I have improved.

But sometimes I am impressed by my past work - I think I wouldn't be able to create anything as good, yet alone better, today.

Am I the only one? Does that have a name? How are people dealing with that?

[#]askfedi #writing

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Written by Mirek Długosz 🕸️:python:🐛 on 2022-11-07 at 12:28

Hi, I'm Mirek. I'm #software #developer specializing in #testing . I've got #social #science background and I've been active in various #FOSS communities for about 15 years. Avid #Linux user since 2006. I program in #Python and do some #webdev . Most of my open source activity these days happen at #GitHub https://github.com/mirekdlugosz , and sometimes I #blog at https://mirekdlugosz.com/

[#]introduction #Poland

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