linux & the mountains

Although my progress in adding new features is not too fast (hint: patches and help is welcome), I’m quite happy with the progress of deb.li. As mentioned on my last post on [email protected], I’ve spent some time to migrate it to the new, but very well written microframework Flask, which is based on Werkzeug, the probably most advanced WSGI utility module. The migration also allowed me to clean up several pieces of messy code which were necessary to work around some issues in python-bottle. »

After more than a year of using ikiwiki to run bzed.de I thought it would be a good time replace the darkish-brown style by something bright. Also I wanted to get righ of the massive changes I had to do on the template files to make the old layout work. Unfortunately I hit one of the - in my opinion - major problems in the ikiwiki templates again: You can’t rely on all <div>s being available on all pages, which is quite annoying when you need them to style the page with CSS. »

Yesterday I finally found the time to update gimp-plugin-registry, the (hopefully!) largest and best collection of plugins for The GIMP. As usual here comes a short summary of the changes: The wonderful scripts from El Samuko are included now: Antique Photo Border Script Che Guevara Script Cyanotype Script Difference Layer Script Escape Line Script Film Grain Script First Photo Border Script Lomo Script with Old Style Colors Movie 300 Script National Geographic Script Obama “HOPE” Script Rainy Landscape Script Photochrom Script Sprocket Hole Script Sunny Landscape Script Technicolor 2 Color Script Technicolor 3 Color Script Vintage Look Script Included the X11 Mouce Curser (XMC) plugin as requested by KiBi. »

After several other Debian developers convinced me that a ShortURL service, which is under control of a Debian Developer would be useful for them, I’ve spent some time to write the necessary code for it. And if it will be used regulary, I’ll ask DSA if they want to host it on a proper machine. So I’m happy to announce the public beta test of deb.li (also available under go.debian.net)! Please note that neither the content of the pages nor the CSS is finished… :) »

[[!img /_images/fedora_assimilated.jpg alt=“At the Chemnitzer Linux Tage the fedora project was assimilated by the Debian project as fedora realized that rpm is crap ;)” ]] »