The KDE Plasma 6 / Wayland State of Things for Desktop Apps
We run our entire desktop catalog on KDE Plasma 6 over Wayland every day, so this is the honest state report: what works, what still bites, and which defaults need flipping.
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Building a plugin host without recompiling the daemon
LinSight loads metric sources as runtime .so plugins behind a stabby FFI vtable and an explicit ABI version, and the interesting part is the set of choices that keep the host alive across releases.
cxx-qt: how a Qt codebase becomes a Rust codebase without rewriting
LinSight and LinSync write their QObjects in Rust and their UI in QML, glued by cxx-qt, and the interesting part is why the migration boundary sits exactly there.
Why We Picked Kirigami for Our Linux Desktop Apps
Three of our Linux desktop apps run the same Qt 6 / Kirigami QML interface on KDE Plasma, GNOME, and XFCE without a fork in the codebase, and the interesting part is why that stopped being a gamble.
Mongrel vs DataGrip: Database IDE or Database and Systems Workbench?
Compare DataGrip's database IDE depth with Mongrel's database, terminal, API, container, and Kubernetes workbench for cross-system investigations.
A Database Client With SSH Tunneling Built In, and Why the Bastion Should Be a Dropdown
Every production database lives behind a bastion, and most database GUIs treat SSH tunnels as an afterthought, so here is how tunneling actually works, why the port-forward incantation rots, and what it looks like when the tunnel manager and the database client are the same app.