rsadowski@openbsd.org
Had the chance to spend 3 weeks in Japan recently - running an ultramarathon, attending an OpenBSD hackathon, and exploring the country.
Wrote up the experience for anyone interested in the intersection of hackathons, running, and travel: https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/j2k25-japan-openbsd-hackathon/
It was a unique experience to complete an ultra race in Japan. With tired legs and sunburn heading to Nara. Recovery hacking 🙃
The next #GitHub #Sponsors #newsletter has been sent out. Thanks to those who support me! " rsadowski - 23.04.2025 shut up and hack newsletter #6" https://github.com/sponsors/sizeofvoid
@Puffy4Life Never tried autologin. It feels so unopenbsd'ish. ;)
#OpenBSD on the #AOOSTAR GEM12 Pro MAX AMD R7 8845HS Mini PC
https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/aoostar-gem12-pro-max-openbsd/
@jggimi It's no really detailed from my point of view. I wanted to create a mood for myself. More will come
@jakzale currently with smt disabled and still fantastic fast.
#OpenBSD IO benchmarking: How Many Jobs Are Worth It?
Just published a recap of the last few months of OpenBSD desktop work: KDE updates, Qt struggles (and victories), KiCAD 9.0, FFmpeg 6, and a look more 👉 https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/recap-nov2024-to-mar-2025/
The next #GitHub #Sponsors #newsletter has been sent out. Thanks to those who support me! "rsadowski - 31.03.2025 shut up and hack newsletter #4"
I was able to import bear(1) into #OpenBSD today. If you want to know more about what you can do with it, you can find a blog post from me here: https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/json-compilation-db-non-cmake-projects/
:flan_announcer: We are building the Game of Trees Hub, a #Git repository hosting service based on #gameoftrees and #OpenBSD, funded via an open collective.
Our Git repository server implementation can already be self-hosted on OpenBSD and Linux, but:
1) Not everyone can or wants to self-host.
2) Most people don't need yet another Git hosting service, though some people might appreciate a financially transparent and independent service that supports both public and private repositories, has no intentions of abusing user data, and is not striving for infinite growth.
3) Ever since the Game of Trees project started as a side project in 2017 it has received zero financial support. And with developers growing up and having families with children to support, unpaid work on Game of Trees has been eating its way into working hours. Which is not sustainable in the long term.
Can we make a win-win situation out of this dilemma? :flan_thumbs:
You can now support us here:
https://opencollective.com/gothub
For now, this is an early-bird crowd-funding effort to support the initial work on getting the service up and running. Git repository service tiers will appear once the hosting infrastructure is ready. The more initial funds we can collect the faster we will get there.
All software developed will be released under the ISC license, the same open source license terms as used by OpenBSD.
I know that there are some #KiCAD #OpenBSD users out there. So I am pleased to share that I am very confident that we will have a stable KiCAD 9.0.0 release in OpenBSD 7.7.
@steelframe Thanks, interesting idea.
Fresh on the blog: "How to Automatically Start or Reattach to a tmux Session with SSH" https://buff.ly/3QyBfLc
New newsletter on GitHub Sponsors has just been published - 23.02.2025 shut up and hack newsletter #4. (4 months in a row since the idea was born, I'll keep working on it.) https://rsadowski.de/sponsor/
@magitian IMHO, I think we are on the right track with Wayland on OpenBSD(You can take a look at the commits to see how many are "working" on it. Otherwise I don't see any patches from the community). OpenBSD KDE Plasma Wayland support just needs time. I haven't found that yet (low prio). I think the current benefit of it would be too minimal. Yes, Wayland is nice, but what do you get out of it (by default)? No root? Okay but I'm comfortable with xencara (OpenBSD's X11) as well.
