Introducing Bug 2 Trello

meta = {'category': Bug 2 Trello, 'date': Thu 13 June 2013}

For some time now, I’ve been using Trello to organize my free software contributions. My main use is to give me a cross-project view of what I’m working on. As most of my contributions stem from packaging software for Debian and Ubuntu, I end up working on and …

Introducing TypeCatcher

meta = {'category': TypeCatcher, 'date': Sun 11 November 2012}

After helping to review applications for the Ubuntu App Showdown, I had the urge to take another look at the state of quickly, Ubuntu’s quick starter for app development. So here we have TypeCatcher. It allows you to search, browse, and download Google webfonts for off-line use. You can …

Automation with Google Apps Script

meta = {'category': Ubuntu, 'date': Sun 11 March 2012}

I maintain a GCal of the Ubuntu release schedule, and I just updated it to contain the proposed schedule for the Q-series. As you can imagine, adding all those events by hand can be annoying. Luckily you can use Google App Script, which is more or less JavaScript for the …

“Formalities are boring.”

meta = {'category': Ubuntu, 'date': Wed 09 November 2011}

I’ve been following the discussion around the potential switch from Banshee back to Rhythmbox for Precise, and I really don’t have all that much to add. Though I did come across an interesting post from an upstream Tomboy developer that deserves some wider attention. He argues that “upstreams …

Fun with graphs

meta = {'category': Ubuntu, 'date': Sun 09 October 2011}

For awhile now, I’ve felt like the ubuntu-motu mailing list has been a shadow of its former self. It turns out that empirical data backs up this feeling. I produced a histogram of mailinglist volume over time:

I also figured I should take a look at ubuntu-devel:

That graph …