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Volker Krause
Personal blog · volkerkrause.euprogrammingsystems
Volker Krause's personal blog at volkerkrause.eu covers programming and systems. Since 2018, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “October/November in KDE Itinerary”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Thoughts on KDE, Qt, Free Software and software engineering.
Most-linked posts?
- October/November in KDE Itinerary2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-30
- FOSDEM 2024 and Open Public Transport Routing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-10
- OpenStreetMap Indoor Maps for KDE Itinerary2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-13
What Hacker News says?
Breeze is being ported to Qt 6, and from the screenshots I see ( https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2022/01/15/kf6-continuous-integr... , unsure what others), there are no visual changes so far. Time will tell if they change Breeze's appearance further before/after Plasma 6's release (I didn't ask about KDE's current plans). One possibility is O2 ( https://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/ ), a reworked theme by the author of KDE…
Comment linking /2022/01/15/kf6-continuous-integration.html
on “The end of the nice GTK button”Submitted Adding public transport data to Transitous as a story · 64 points
HN discussionThere is some neat application for example many tickets/hotel reservation/restaurant do include them and this allow to make some email clients displays these tickets in a standard way. KDE Itinerary and Apple Wallet make use of this. For the KDE Itinerary part, you can read more on this here: https://volkerkrause.eu/ (look at the KDE Itinerary posts)
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on “Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?”Submitted Computing simplified coverage polygons as a story · 32 points
HN discussionNot directly related, but sometimes I do wonder how free software can compete with the services of the behemoths (maps, assistants, etc). So the other day I hit this article [1] on planet.kde.org about KDE Itinerary, an application that can store your boarding passes and offer some additional services, such as calendar integration or notifications in case your destination has a different socket type, they drive on t…
Comment linking /2018/08/25/kde-itinerary-overview.html
on “Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department”Submitted 20 Years of KDE Contributions as a story · 31 points
HN discussionI agree that mandatory encryption would massively help privacy, integrity and even compliance [1]. However, the main cost is developer-effort involved in keeping track of keys and implementing encryption. As a small project, ease of adoption has been our most important goal. However, as we work towards better WebPush compatibility [2], I personally absolutely want to promote RFC8291 encryption and make it easy to im…
Comment linking /2022/11/12/kde-unifiedpush-push-notifications.html
on “UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol”Submitted Cheap Electric Power Measurement: Repurposing a WiFi power plug as a story · 26 points
HN discussionLooks good! I may sign up. Interestingly, I had a brief look for open source alternatives and found that KDE Itinerary[0] may do a similar thing, and that the same code has been re-used in a Nextcloud Mail extension[1]. I don't use either so haven't been able to test directly yet. But I did use a CLI tool based on the same KDE code[2] and while it doesn't output iCal it does seem to correctly extract the details fro…
Comment linking /2019/09/21/kde-itinerary-cli-extractor.html
on “PelotonCal”Submitted OpenStreetMap Indoor Maps for KDE Itinerary as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Timezone and Country Lookup by Coordinates as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Push Notifications for KDE as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Completing the KDE Frameworks 6 transition as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted FOSDEM 2024 and Open Public Transport Routing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted June/July in KDE Itinerary as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Road to KDE Frameworks 6 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted KDE Eco sprint July 2022 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted OSM Opening Hours Integration in KDE Itinerary as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted OSM Indoor Maps for KDE Itinerary as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted December/January in KDE Itinerary as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted FOSDEM 2024 and Open Public Transport Routing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted KDE Android apps porting update (Qt 6) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OSM Indoor Mapping Workshop Recap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted December/January in KDE Itinerary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted October/November in KDE Itinerary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted October/November in KDE Itinerary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatically finding and fixing insecure HTTP links as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted KNotifications on Android 13 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Countering String Bloat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Location Sharing in Matrix and NeoChat as a story · 1 points
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