Akademy 2025
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
In September, I spent over 12 hours in airplanes and trains getting to Berlin to attend my second Akademy conference. The experience once again made the long trip worthwhile. It was lovely to see some familiar faces, and to meet other folks for the first time. This was my second trip to Berlin, and it was nice to see different areas of the city than last year. Like last year, people were so approachable, friendly and easy to talk to. The welcome event was at the lovely Schleusenkrug Beer Garden, just a short walk from the venue, nestled in one of the many areas of greenery.
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Revisiting X11 vs Wayland With Multiple Displays
Monday, 2 June 2025
The things I do for QA... A few years ago, I was among those who found Wayland too painful to use every day. Over time, I gave Wayland a try now and then. It finally got usable enough for me to switch to as my default a couple of years ago.
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Konsole Layout Automation (part 2)
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
In Konsole Layout Automation (part 1), I wrote about how to automate opening Konsole with different tabs that ran different commands. In this post, I'll talk about doing this for layouts.
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My First Akademy Adventure
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
This year was my first Akademy, and I was thrilled to be able to attend in
person. Even better, some veterans said it was the best Akademy so far. It was
great to see some people I had met in April and to meet new people. I arrived
on Friday, 6th Sept and left the following Friday. I very much enjoyed staying
in the lovely town of Würzburg and doing a day tour of Rothenberg. Now that
I've caught up on sleep (the jet lag, it is real), it's time to write about it.
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Konsole Layout Automation (part 1)
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Do you find yourself opening up the same tabs in your terminal and running the same commands every day? Have you wanted to make this easier, say, by clicking a desktop icon or running a short command?
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Bugzilla Bot improvements in the Automation Sprint
Monday, 29 April 2024
I'm happy to have been able to attend my first in-person KDE event, the Automation & Systematization Sprint in Berlin. Previously, my contributions to KDE have consisted of submitting and triaging bug reports. During this weekend, I was able to meet some of the KDE team in person, and become more involved. I've started working with the Bugzilla Bot code, and plan to start digging into the automated test code.
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