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These are my notes for setting up a “deploy-to-remote-webserver” workflow with ssh and an sftp-only chroot, in case someone might find it useful.
Compiled from various bits and pieces around the internet.
Setting up SSH Add a group: groupadd -r remote-deploy. This will add a system group Create a folder for authorized keys for users in that group: mkdir -p /etc/ssh/authorized…
As a follow-up in spirit of reversing the USB a blood pressure monitor See Github project I was part of a project to revive a GPS receiver from the late 2000s. This is still work in process since it is still not possible to decode the actual GPS data, but we are getting there.
The code and documentation is also available at github and we’ve done a talk about the project at Easterhegg 21,…
Hello everyone, as “teased” over on discourse, April 22nd saw the release of Shotwell’s new stable version, 0.32.0.
New features include:
More image formats: AVIF, CR3, HEIF/HVEC, JPEG XL & WebP Some initial geographical data handling (The map display will likely return in 33) Multiple libraries and settings that are isolated from each other Support of more than one…
Happy to announce that dLeyna has moved to its new home, GNOME World: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/dLeyna
The four previously separated repositories core, connector-dbus, renderer and server have been combined into this single repository. I was amongst those who promoted for the split, but since then the conditions have changed and it is far easier to maintain in an all-in-one repository…
I have too many projects. That’s why I also picked up dLeyna which was laying around looking a bit unloved, smacked fixes, GUPnP 1.2 and meson support on top and made new releases. They are available at
https://github.com/phako/dleyna-core/archive/refs/tags/v0.7.0.tar.gz https://github.com/phako/dleyna-connector-dbus/archive/refs/tags/v0.4.0.tar.gz…
I just uploaded a new unstable release version of Shotwell, 0.31.1. Why that took roughly a year and why that still doesn’t contain everything I wanted it to contain will be the content for some following posts.
Previously, there was already a way to have separate databases, but you would share the settings and thus the import folder between the two databases. Even more so, developing on…
Please check Narendra’s post on the efforts of getting face recognition working in Shotwell : http://narenma.net/2018/08/18/shotwell-facedetect/
(I’m currently trying to get that to work inside flatpak for easier testing)
As announced earlier, since August 1st, 2018 Shotwell cannot publish to Facebook any more. The API that Shotwell used for that was removed and it is currently not clear to me how developers that do not use Android, iOS or Facebook’s web SDKs should provide similar functionality.
Another “On the way to” post for Shotwell.
Flatpak There is now a nightly flatpak for Shotwell available. You can use this flatpakref for installation. To protect your database, it will work on its own private database. If you really want to work with your current data, I have described a way to make it access your normal Shotwell database in this comment on issue 6. The upcoming…
Shotwell 0.28 “Braunschweig” is out.
Half a year later than I was expecting it to be, sorry. This release fixes 60 Bugs! Get it at GNOME’s download server, from GIT or in the Shotwell PPA really soon™. A big thank you to all contributors that make up all the bits and pieces for such a release.
Notable features:
The viewer can now be started in full screen mode We have…
TL;DR While we’re still 30s behind hand-written make, I totally would use any of the two over hand-written Makefiles. As you might have noticed, meson is the new kid on the block. Step by step I am currently converting some projects to it, spearheading Shotwell. Since Shotwell only “recently” became an autotools project, you may ask why. Shotwell had a hand-written makefile…
Springtime is releasetime! Monday saw a couple of new releases:
Shotwell Shotwell 0.26.0 “Aachen” was released. No “grand” new features, more slashing of papercuts and internal reworks. I removed a big chunk of deprecated functions from it, with more to come for 0.28 on our way to GTK+4 and laid the groundworks for better integration into desktop online account systems…
I will take part in a little experiment with a couple of friends, trying this newfangled technology thingy with games and stuff. So tonight, Feb 14th, 2017, 20:15 CET, we will try to release our inner Bernhard Langer and amaze you with our virtual golfing skills! Come and watch LIVE, in color and whatnot at https://twitch.tv/phako78 (that’s with a camera pointing at me) or…