I've been getting back into PC gaming for the last couple of months, and that has involved a lot of checking out what Steam on Linux looks like nowadays (i.e. playing lots of games). Most of the time everything works just fine and smoothly, but sometimes there are hiccups …

Last week I participated in a 3 day-long "Train the Trainer" course at Hibernian College in Dublin. My goals were to get a better understanding of how to teach to adults and learn how to design and deliver effective training sessions, in order to improve my technical courses and workshops …

Belatedly, here are the notes for the design session/tutorial I gave about testing in Horizon at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, back in April. The etherpad is available over there. Session description:

The monthly Open-Source night experiment continues. On Wednesday, June 19th we had the June edition of Open-Source Night. Rory gave us a slightly-longer-than-15-minutes talk on OpenStreetMap, and the kind of contributions the project welcomes (data data data, really!). I was the only one to volunteer for a lightning talk, in …

I came back to an old project on another machine only to find that the git diff command did not behave as expected anymore:

^[[1;33mdiff --git a/myproject/myapp/models.py b/myproject/myapp/models.py^[[m
^[[1;33mindex 0216829..d9e1637 100644^[[m
^[[1;33m--- a/myproject/myapp/models …