Nibble Stew

A gathering of development thoughts of Jussi Pakkanen. Some of you may know him as the creator of the Meson build system. jpakkane at gmail dot com

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

How to get banned from Facebook in one simple step

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I, too, have (or as you can probably guess from the title of this post, had) a Facebook account. I only ever used it for two purposes. Findi...
Friday, January 9, 2026

AI and money

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If you ask people why they are using AI (or want other people to use it) you get a ton of different answers. Typically none of them contain ...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

Converting Chapterizer from Cairo + Pango to CapyPDF

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Chapterizer (not a great name, I know) is a tool I wrote to generate books. Originally used Cairo and Pango to generate PDF files. It works...
Friday, January 2, 2026

New year, new Pystd epoch, or evolving an API without breaking it

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One of the core design points of Pystd has been that it maintains perfect API and ABI stability while also  making it possible to improve th...
Monday, December 22, 2025

An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker

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Note: this post represents my personal opinions as a Debian maintainer of a single package (Meson). It is not my intention to throw anyone i...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

An Appeal from the United Federation of Dictators, Despots, Evil Emperors and Tyrants

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Truly, we are living in a new Golden Age for all those sharing our passion in subjugating all of human race under a single iron fist. And to...
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Monday, November 24, 2025

3D models in PDF documents

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PDF can do a lot of things. One them is embedding 3D models in the file and displaying them. The user can orient them freely in 3D space and...
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