Category: Featured
Eleven Years in Space
It could be the title of a book or a movie. Instead, it’s what really happened: eleven years of relentless activity, orbiting one and a half million kilometers from home. Billions upon billions of measurements, sent to…
By mcastel
Martin's Office
I worked as a gardener at a mental hospital and Martin, my manager, had an office to himself in the newer part of the building. One day the hospital director decided that Martin didn't really need an office to himself…
By swayne
Combining WPML & ActivityPub
"WPML" (WordPress MultiLingual) is a plugin for Wordpress that allows for translation of posts, pages and templates in Wordpress. "ActivityPub (Wordpress plugin)" is a plugin for Wordpress that allows for fediverse…
By Thomas Pike
AMD, you infected my PC with zombies!
In spring 2024, I completed Vivaldi's developer build assistance transition from Goma to the newer Reclient system. Goma and Reclient are remote build assistance that can perform compilation of files that you need to…
By Yngve
Techscam Exceptions for Creative Commons
There are many tech scams that I think impact our cultural commons. Some of the most egregious ones recently have been DRM, GAI, and Crypto (NFTs and the like). I quite like the idea behind creative commons licensing…
By lonm
Looking to Norway: EVs in 2024
If there is anyone who still wonders why this war is being fought, let him look to Norway. If there is anyone who has any delusions that this war could have been averted, let him look to Norway; and if there is anyone…
By jaxroam
It's So Different From a Year Ago
With nearly 500 Vivaldi blog posts to my name, a year ago at the end of 2023 I gave up on posting any more because of a problem with my images not posting true to color. That was a mistake on my my part and I must own…
By robrose
[se00ep04] 12 things I am grateful for
I feel happy because I finally moved on with my legal capacity. I feel depressed because my plans didn't work out and when everything turned against me I started to feel sad and worried.…
By tonygroover
Vivaldi for Android thoughts
Choosing the right Android browser for has always been about which browser keeps it the most simple, so in that case my daily driver has always been Cromite, and just normal good ol' Firefox for extensions. But Vivaldi…
Open Street Map Goals for 2025
A few years ago I started working to make my town, Glenrothes, more visible on the Open Street Map. Mostly it was just roads and land use imported from public data, though a few people had added in some housing areas,…
By lonm
Go is not suitable for desktop GUI apps
I’ve started playing around with Go to list files and do some file actions. It worked great; the code was done quickly, but it only had a console output. That’s when I started looking at GUI toolkits to create a file…
By cwansart