Is that really so? PyCups3 is intelligent? Well, short answer is YES. It is intelligent. Damn, sweetheart, you made an AI for PyCups? Not everything that’s intelligent is an AI. An imaginary conversation, between me and my girlfriend. Now, what’s the twist here is, PyCups3 is actually very very intelligent. So, from my last blog post, I detailed how, PyCups2 got lost due to the lack of upgrades and implmentation of new APIs. ...
Representative and generated So long of GSoC and No blog yet? Why Soumya? Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s been a while, and no blog posts yet. But hey, between wrestling with CFFI + C + Python and libcups with its 150+ APIs, blogging kind of took the back seat. But enough excuses - let’s dig into what’s been cooking. A little history (with C in it) Back in the day (almost 15 years ago!), Tim Waugh wrote the first version of pycups as a C extension module for Python. That worked well, but like all old code, it aged… let’s just say, not like fine wine. After Tim, Zdenek took over as maintainer, but with multiple projects of OpenPrinting and other projects in the mix, there wasn’t much room to modernize PyCups2 for him. ...
Friendly country, Friendly people, Reunions, New Experience, a bit of hustle and that’s LIFE! So, this was my 4th conference and 3rd international trip! A lot of new experiences and new friends, but let’s talk about FOSSASIA Summit 2025 first. FOSSASIA Summit 2025 This is the first conference where I was having a lot of different tasks, lightning talk, representing Ubuntu booth and KDE booth. So, a lot of different perspectives will be here. Sometimes I’ll be writing from KDE’s pov, sometimes Ubuntu’s and sometimes my own. ...