Surprise! This blog post series has now been moved to blogs.kde.org so it’s now open for others to participate and contribute! This week’s post can be found at https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/02/this-week-in-plasma-spoooooky-ooooooooom-notifications
That’s probably where it should have been all along, as this work is much bigger than me. I’ll remain the editor-in-chief for now, but do welcome contributions to help lighten the load. π
Unfortunately, due to GDPR restrictions, I’m unable to migrate existing email subscribers to the new email digest over there. So if you’d like to re-subscribe to “This week in Plasma.” head to https://newsletter.kde.org/subscription/form and re-subscribe.
I’ll still be blogging here about KDE topics of interest to me and hopefully you as well, just not the weekly Plasma news. So I do hope you’ll stick around. π
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Hey Nate this is great! But the link to the article results in a 404. Is it scheduled to be published soon? If so I’ll just come back later.
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Nevermind, found the correct link. It’s 2nd of November here, so I had to navigate to https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/02/this-week-in-plasma-spoooooky-ooooooooom-notifications/
Oops π
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Neat! Is there an RSS/Atom feed for the new blog?
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Yup.
This week in Plasma: https://blogs.kde.org/categories/this-week-in-plasma/index.xml
This week in KDE apps: https://blogs.kde.org/categories/this-week-in-kde-apps/index.xml
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Yeah, I mis-predicted the final URL, oops. Fixed now!
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Makes sense, thanks for all those posts over the years on your personal blog Nate.
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Looks visually great. Additionally to the donate option, I’d also reference https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/ always. Can’t hurt! π
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Good idea! Changed.
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In https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/02/this-week-in-plasma-spoooooky-ooooooooom-notifications/ somehow my Firefox 132 only shows me a single comment:
The following is logged in Firefox debugger:
Failed to execute βpostMessageβ on βDOMWindowβ: The target origin provided (βhttps://discuss.kde.orgβ) does not match the recipient windowβs origin (βhttps://blogs.kde.orgβ).
@Carl Schwan π
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Sounds like an overzealous ad blocker or javascript blocker? The comments section over there is an embed that loads from https://discuss.kde.org
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Yeah it works with a new profile, but it keeps not working when I disable uBlock Origin and LocalCDN and have Firefox built-in privacy blocker on the “Standard” level, when reloading the page with Ctrl+F5. So there should(!) be no more known interference.
But the error may be worth fixing anyway, but yet I’m not a web developer. π
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Will you migrate the backlog of older posts to KDE infrastructure as well?
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I wasn’t planning on it; there are hundreds at this point. If someone comes up with a fancy automatic converter/migrator tool though, I’m all for it!
Probably the comments would be impossible to migrate though.
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Congratulations on the evolution of your blog! I think that it highlights the importance of your blog in the KDE world and how it is an indispensable resource.
I haven’t commented in a long time, but I do diligently read it! π
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I’d say about time, have wondered why it was on your personal space since the first few issues. But then again, I have been round for a long time so what most bugged me was that it was not simply on the Dot. After all that is exactly what dot.kde.org was started for and created it’s audience with. Simple weekly summaries of what went on in the KDE/Plasma source code repository.
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I liked the comment system here better than discuss (diskuss?).
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Oh, I was about to complain about lack of email newsletter on the other blog (that I could find on the blog homepage, on phone) but I found the subscribe link here. Seems like there is a subscribe section in the article as well, but would love to have it on the homepage as well.
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> Will you migrate the backlog of older posts to KDE infrastructure as well?
>> I wasnβt planning on it; there are hundreds at this point. If someone comes up with a fancy automatic converter/migrator tool though, Iβm all for it!
Hi Nate, what exactly is the task here?
Scraping all your posts from the blog, converting them to markdown and pushing it to the repo?
As a first step, all twip from this blog to a mergrequest against:
https://invent.kde.org/websites/blogs-kde-org/-/tree/master/content/posts/twip/%5Bdate%5D?
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Good to see more official recognition although this means less specialized place i visit weekly and read about all the kool KDE news. Not really interested in some “noisy” and big aggregates and from time to time this site allowed me to comment without login to anything. Thanks for the years of service and godspeed!
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OK, good to see this Plasma weekly news update in an official page of KDE website.
I’ve discovered the existence of “This week in KDE Apps” which is also an interesting weekly news update. You may share it in one of your blog posts : https://blogs.kde.org/categories/this-week-in-kde-apps/
I’ll still have a look at your blog for subjects you share with us.
Thank you for your communications and involvement.
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hi,
it’s a bit stupid, if the rss feeds anywhere disabled in the blogs of kde..
do you belive, the users open every any newsside per browser… ?
tzzz….
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There’s still an RSS feed; you can find it under the RSS icon visible on the header at https://blogs.kde.org/categories/this-week-in-plasma
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