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This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans.

Of what use is software freedom to someone who doesn't know how to program a computer?

This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans.

This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans.

The Software Freedom Conservancy has yesterday published recommendations for using large language models / generative AI for free and open source contributions.

This month in Radicle CI, June 2026 This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans.

This month in Radicle CI, May 2026 This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans.

This month in Radicle CI, April 2026 This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans.

This month in Radicle CI, March 2026 This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans.

My computing life has often been difficult and complicated.

A Rust function that takes a string argument might look like this: fn foo(s: &str) { ... } This works well, if the the function merely uses the string.

This month in Radicle CI, 2026-02 This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans.

Goal Last time I added positional parameters to directives.

Goal Last time I tried, but failed, to implement the shortcut directive.

This month in Radicle CI, 2026-01 This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans.

Goal My goal for today is to implement the shortcut directive from ikiwiki in riki.

Goal I had code and test for internal linking.

I'm making progress with riki, although very slowly.

sartorial (comparative more sartorial, superlative most sartorial) (not comparable) Of or relating to the tailoring of clothing.

This is a summary of the current state of Radicle CI and near future plans.

This blog post is a reaction to a blog post on Stopping bad guys.

Ambient CI is the CI engine I'm building for myself, and tentatively for Radicle CI.

I've just released version 0.6.0 for sopass, my command line password manager that I use instead of pass.

I've spent most Sundays for the past half a year implementing Obnam 3, the third generation of my backup program.

Every program I write is in some sense a command line program, even if it transmogrifies itself into a server process or an interactive terminal user interface.

Last year I wrote a command line password manager, after deciding I didn't like pass any more, and didn't like anything else I found, either.

It is common to suggest to open source projects that they should ask for donations to fund development.

Summary: I'd like help maintaining vmdb2, my software for creating virtual machine images with Debian installed.

I develop CI systems as a hobby and for work.

Two of the original ideas about Unix is that each program should do one thing and that programs should be able to be combine so they consume each others' output.

I've been using the Debian Linux distribution since the mid-1990s.

I'm building riki, my partial ikiwiki clone, from the bottom up.

I'm going to try to re-implement part of ikiwiki.

(This is a re-post to my own blog of the article we just posted on the Radicle blog.)

Here's a short description how I create command line programs in the Rust language.

In the hope that it helps anyone who hesitates on what dock to get for their Framework laptop: I have a 13-inch Framework AMD laptop, bought in 2024.

Debian is a large, complex operating system, and a huge open source project.

When I wrote Why is Debian the way it is?

I was interviewed on the Open Source Security podcast about Ambient CI and Radicle.

TL;DR I'm going to start implementing bits of backup software again.

Docker) is very popular software to build Linux container images and running software in them.

This post is part of a series on backup software implementation.

Solved: this works: -net nic,model=virtio -net user My goal I want to run a Debian cloud image with qemu-system-x86_64 so that the guest operating system has network access using user mode networking.

This post is part of a series on backup software implementation.

This post is part of a series on backup software implementation.

You may have seen the following error message on a Unix system: No such file or directory This comes from the Unix standard library for the C language.

This post is part of a series on backup software implementation.

This post is part of a series on backup software implementation.

I've made a new CI engine lets me run CI on untrusted code without having to worry.

This post is part of a series on backup software implementation.