I am impressed with the well-deserved rise of Sourcehut, a minimalist and open source alternative to Github and Gitlab. I like their unbiased performance comparison with other JavaScript-heavy Git …| Sam Thursfield
Hello! I’m working on an interesting project this month, related to open source Linux operating systems. Actually I’m not working on it this week, I’m instead battling with vinyl …| Sam Thursfield
Greetings readers of the future from my favourite open technology event of the year. I am hanging out with the people who develop the GNOME platform talking about interesting stuff. Being realistic…| Sam Thursfield
This month has involved very little programming and a huge amount of writing. I am accidentally writing a long-form novel about openQA testing. It’s up to 1000 words already and we’re s…| Sam Thursfield
I am a long time user of the Fedora operating system. It’s very good quality, with a lot of funding from Red Hat (who use it to crowd-source testing for their commercial product Red Hat Enterprise Linux). On Fedora you use a command named dnf to install and remove packages. The absolute worst design decision … Continue reading dnf uninstall| Sam Thursfield
This month I created a personal data map where I tried to list all my important digital identities. (It’s actually now a spreadsheet, which I’ll show you later. I didn’t want to s…| Sam Thursfield
Hello. It is May, my favourite month. I’m in Manchester, mainly as I’m moving projects at work, and its useful to do that face-to-face. For the last 2 and a half years, my job has mostly involved a huge, old application inside a big company, which I can’t tell you anything about. I learned a … Continue reading Status update, 22/05/2025| Sam Thursfield
It’s strange being alive while so much bad shit is going on in the world, right? With our big brains that invented smartphones, quantum computers and Haskell, surely we could figure out how t…| Sam Thursfield
Welcome to another month of rambling status reports. Not much in terms of technology this month, my work at Codethink is still focused on proprietary corporate infrastructure, and the weather is to…| Sam Thursfield
Hello everyone. If you’re reading this, then you are alive. Congratulations. It’s a wild time to be alive. Remember Thib’s advice: it’s okay to relax! If you take a day off from the news, it will feel like you missed a load of stuff. But if you take a week or two out from reading … Continue reading Status update, 18/03/2025| Sam Thursfield
A couple of years ago I set up a simple and independent media streaming server for my Bandcamp music collection using a Raspberry Pi 4, Fedora IoT and Jellyfin. It works nicely and I don’t ha…| Sam Thursfield
Happily I have survived the intense storms of January 2025, and the biting February temperatures, and I’m here with another status update post. I made it to FOSDEM 2025, which was its usual s…| Sam Thursfield
Happy new year everyone! As a new year’s resolution, I’ve decided to improve SEO for this blog, so from now on my posts will be in FAQ format. What are Sam Thursfield’s favourite …| Sam Thursfield
Its been an interesting and cold month so far. I made a successful trip to the UK, one of the first times I’ve been back in winter and avoided being exposed to COVID19 since the pandemic, so …| Sam Thursfield
A month of low energy here. My work day is spent on a corporate project which I can’t talk about due to NDAs, although I can say it’s largely grunt work at the moment. I’m not muc…| Sam Thursfield
I’ve participated in two internships this year, and interns — who are usually busy full-time students — often ask “How do you get time to contribute to open source?”. And the truth is that there’s no secret formula. It’s tricky to get paid to work on something that you give away for free, isn’t it? … Continue reading Status update, 16/10/2024| Sam Thursfield
This year PyCon Spain happened just down the road from me in Vigo, and I was able to attend with a few folk from Codethink. Python conferences are usually great as there’s so much variety in …| Sam Thursfield
Short update this month, which has been full of travels and new things. I spent a few weeks in the UK. Most importantly I got to see Altin Gün in the Manchester Psych Festival, but I also visited family and friends, spent a while in the Codethink offices, and so on. It’s been a month … Continue reading Status update, 21/09/24| Sam Thursfield
I mentioned in my last status update post that I had just received a Fairphone 5. Here are my thoughts on it after a month of use. The predecessor For the last 4 years I’ve been using this as my main phone, the Oukitel WP5: The WP5 was quite a device in 2020: for the … Continue reading Fairphone 5 review| Sam Thursfield
Blogging on the Fediverse Wordpress.com has recently allowed blogs to Enter the Fediverse, so you can now follow my writings on Mastodon and other places. Click the new ‘Follow’ button …| Sam Thursfield
Was a great weekend for me with a trip to Ovar, Portugal to watch amazing Bixiga 70 and eat delicious Portuguese food. Not such a great weekend for the England men’s football team or Donald t…| Sam Thursfield
Looking back at this month its been very busy indeed. In fact, so busy that I’m going to split this status update into two parts. Possibly this is the month where I worked the whole time yet …| Sam Thursfield
I just published version 10.0 of the open source playlist generation toolkit, Calliope. This fixes a couple of long standing issues I wanted to tackle. SQLite Concurrency The first of these only ma…| Sam Thursfield
Audio Developer Conference I was at ADC 2022 last week – thanks to Codethink as always for covering the cost and allowing me 2 days time off to attend. It was my first time attending in perso…| Sam Thursfield
