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Jan 17, 2023

January 2013

xmonad-log-applet 2.1.0 released, with MATE support

I've just released a new version of xmonad-log-applet. Thanks to Ari Croock it now works with the MATE desktop environment, just include…

Jan 16, 2013

July 2012

The Boston Hackfest

The GNOME and Mono Festival of Love was a blast!

Jul 5, 2012

June 2012

GNOME and Mono Festival of Love

Thanks to the travel sponsorship of the GNOME Foundation, this week I'm going to Boston to attend the hackfest. I will be in Boston from Thursday…

Jun 25, 2012

January 2012

Last weekend Interviewstreet conducted a second CodeSprint. The event had a format similar to the Google's CodeJam: they gave you a bunch of problems…

Jan 12, 2012

November 2011

October 2011

muspy is now free software

muspy is an album release notification service, you give it a list of your favourite artists and it sends you a notice (by email or RSS) as soon as they…

Oct 29, 2011

September 2011

xmonad-log-applet for GNOME and Xfce

xmonad-log-applet is a handy panel applet/plugin for GNOME (and now Xfce) users who use Xmonad as an alternative window manager.

Sep 20, 2011

September 2010

FreeBSD ports/UPDATING web feed

Two things recently happened to me: I fell in love with FreeBSD and I got a new job (and will be moving to Malaysia very soon!)

Sep 24, 2010

November 2009

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