Notes on my journey in biosystems engineering.
Problem I've been experimenting with GNU Guix lately, a potent & multipurpose "distribution of the GNU operating system." I typically use KDE's Plasma as a desktop environment, and Guix offers a plasma package for this, but it's not offered by the installer, being a little more experimental, so I've been using GNOME, but in doing so, I ran into an issue with the default power-saving configuration.…
Hello again! This new year's update announces some interesting new beginnings for the FreeCAD project, though it's a little short since I got some much needed vacation time over the last two months. Contents OpenFOAM on One Core? Only 92 Hours! (for mipsel) Trip to FOSDEM 2020 and MiniDebCamp at the Hackerspace Brussels Looking at BRL-CAD for Debian PySide 2 and KDE Maintenance in Debian FreeCAD…
There's been a spooky amount of activity in the FreeCAD & Debian Science world since I last wrote! Because this update covers August, September, and October, I'll try to be brief and only touch on the key points. Contents Staging & Merging App::Link Functionality FreeCAD Python 2 removal in Debian Testing FreeCAD Python 3 support added for Ubuntu 16.04 Netgen and Pybind11 Builds OpenCASCADE 7.4.0…
Hello, and welcome to my "summer update" on my free software work on FreeCAD and the Debian Science team. I call it a summer update because it was winter when I last wrote, and quite some time has elapsed since I fell out of the monthly update habit. This is a high-level summary of what I've been working on since March. FreeCAD 0.18 Release & Debian 10 Full Freeze Timing The official release date…
Intro Hello all and welcome again to another of my monthly summary posts on my work in free software, with a focus on open engineering in Debian & Ubuntu . I'm fortunate to have the February 12th Debian 10 soft freeze deadline to scapegoat for my missed January update, and thanks too to February for being short enough to postpone it further and combine the two updates. I've decided to go with a…
Hello again for another of my monthly updates on my work on Debian Science and the FreeCAD ecosystem. There's only a few announcement items since I was mostly enjoying my holidays, but several important things were accomplished this month. Also, since there's not much time left before the release of Debian 10, there's some consideration to be done towards what I'll be working on in the next few…
Intro Welcome to another of my monthly summaries on my work in the free software world. My mission is to make engineering and science available for everyone, and Debian, the Universal Operating System, is my weapon of choice. I received some feedback on my last post that I made it seem I would be stepping away from my role maintaining FreeCAD and other packages on the Debian Science Team, which…
Intro Welcome to another monthly summary of my free software work. Currently I'm focusing on improving the state of packaging for FreeCAD and its ecosystem of dependencies and related packages in Debian Science. Additionally, I recently revived the FreeCAD Community Extras PPA as a way of staging these packages out to users for testing. If you are a FreeCAD user, developer, or simply a user of one…
Hello all, unfortunately my update comes late again this month, although I have good reason! I just finished landing a job as a scientific software developer. From the looks of it, I'll mostly be working on things from a systems engineering perspective, but it'll be in the context of the scientific Python ecosystem as well as involving Qt. This is nice in that while I will have less free time to…
Hello all! After reading some of the nice activity logs published by members of the Debian Project at https://planet.debian.org , I've decided to publish my own version. This will mostly be my work on FreeCAD and Debian, but will also include other points of note from my many interests. I'll also include relevant activities for my supporters on Patreon As covered in my previous post, most of the…