Our Debian User Group met on February 22 nd for our first meeting of the year! Here's what we did: pollo : reviewed and merged Lintian contributions: salsa MR !664 salsa MR !665 salsa MR !666 released lintian version 2.130.0 upstreamed a patch for python-wilderness, fixed a few things …
Voici un texte que j'ai écris pour un numéro à paraître du journal Résister et fleurir . J'écris rarement en français sur mon blog (qui est principalement destiné à un auditoire international), mais cela m'arrive quand même parfois! Annoncé pour la première fois en 2014, le projet d'expansion du Port de …
Another year of data from Société de Transport de Montréal , Montreal's transit agency! A few highlights this year: Although the Saint-Michel station closed for emergency repairs in November 2024, traffic never bounced back to its pre-closure levels and is still stuck somewhere around 2022 Q2 levels. I wonder if this …
In the past few years, the size of the kernel images in Debian have been steadily growing. I don't see this as a problem per se, but it has been causing me trouble, as my /boot partition has become too small to accommodate two kernel images at the same time …
2026 already! The winter weather here has really been beautiful and I always enjoy this time of year. Writing this yearly musical retrospective has now become a beloved tradition of mine 1 and I enjoy retracing the year's various events through albums I listened to and concerts I went to …
Our Debian User Group met on September 27 th for our first meeting since our summer hiatus. As always, it was fun and productive! Here's what we did: pollo : reviewed and merged Lintian contributions: salsa MR !623 salsa MR !624 salsa MR !625 BTS patch #1077709 BTS patch #1065870 triaged …
Voici un texte que j'ai écris pour le numéro de septembre 2025 de mon journal syndical. J'écris rarement en français sur mon blog (qui est principalement destiné à un auditoire international), mais cela m'arrive quand même parfois! Introduction Dès l'introduction, Plourde annonce ses couleurs: ce livre s'adresse aux personnes qui …
In the last past weeks, I have done something I had been meaning to do for a while but always pushed back at the bottom of my TODO pile: prepare for my death. I am still quite young and perfectly healthy (mentally and physically) and I do plan to live …
Hello, hello, hello! This report for the Bug Squashing Party we held in Montreal on March 28-29th is very late ... but better late than never? We're now at our fifth BSP in a row 1 , which is both nice and somewhat terrifying. Have I really been around for five Debian …
Voici un texte que j'ai écris pour le numéro d'avril 2025 de mon journal syndical. J'écris rarement en français sur mon blog (qui est principalement destiné à un auditoire international), mais cela m'arrive quand même parfois! Mai 2024. Le Devoir annonce qu'Hydro-Québec s'est entendue avec Bibliothèques et Archives nationales du …
Another year of data from Société de Transport de Montréal , Montreal's transit agency! A few highlights this year: The closure of the Saint-Michel station had a drastic impact on D'Iberville, the station closest to it. The opening of the Royalmount shopping center nearly doubled the traffic of the De La …
Our Debian User Group met on December 22 nd for our last meeting of 2024. I wasn't sure at first it was a good idea, but many people showed up and it was great! Here's what we did: pollo: migrated to a new Yubikey merged a lintian MR anarcat: fought …
Another musical retrospective. If you enjoy this, I also did a 2022 and a 2023 one. Albums In 2024, I added 88 new albums to my collection — that's a lot! This year again, I bought the vast majority of my music on Bandcamp. To be honest, I'm quite distraught by …
After weeks – dare I say months – of work, it is finally done. lintian.debian.org is back online! Many, many thanks to everyone who worked hard to make this possible: Thanks to Nicolas Peugnet , the author of lintian-ssg , who handed us this custom static site generator on a silver platter …
Our Debian User Group met on November 2nd after a somewhat longer summer hiatus than normal. It was lovely to see a bunch of people again and to be able to dedicate a whole day to hacking :) Here is what we did: lavamind: reproduced puppetdb FTBFS #1084038 and reported the …
Voici un texte que j'ai écris pour le dernier numéro de mon journal syndical. J'écris rarement en français sur mon blog (qui est principalement destiné à un auditoire international), mais cela m'arrive quand même parfois! Dans une chronique publiée le 5 octobre dernier, Gérard Fillion, journaliste aux affaires économiques à …
DebConf24 is now over! I'm very happy I was able to attend this year. If you haven't had time to look at the schedule yet, here is a selection of talks I liked. What happens if I delete setup.py?: a live demo of upgrading to PEP-518 Python packaging A …
Time really flies when you are really busy you have fun! Our Montréal Debian User Group met on Sunday March 31st and I only just found the time to write our report :) This time around, 9 of us we met at EfficiOS's offices 1 to chat, hang out and work …
My brain is currently suffering from an overload caused by grading student assignments. In search of a somewhat productive way to procrastinate, I thought I would share a small script I wrote sometime in 2023 to facilitate my grading work. I use Moodle for all the classes I teach and …
New Year, Same Great People! Our Debian User Group met for the first of our 2024 bi-monthly meetings on February 4th and it was loads of fun. Around twelve different people made it this time to Koumbit , where the meeting happened. As a reminder, our meetings are called "Debian & Stuff …