Peter Tribble

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Theoretical astrophysicist who ended up in computing, which got a bit out of hand and resulted in Tribblix, my personal illumos distribution.
Or I could go REAL WEIRD and do OpenIndiana or Tribblix…

We helped out on a small local archeological dig today. This is an old well in Orwell. How old? Why was it built? How was it built? Nobody knows yet.

My knees and back are killing me, but it was overall very interesting and enjoyable.

Next Wednesday April 8th is the last topic in the How Resilient is Cambridge? series.

This time the focus is on Community, looking to see how we can come together to address the challenges caused by the climate crisis. (And other challenges, of course...)

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-resilient-is-cambridge-tickets-1974970497924

How Resilient is Cambridge?

A deep dive into six topics that concern our city and our future

Eventbrite

Today I learnt about Copenhagen Crossings. I was familiar with the concept, just not the name. Here's a good description:

https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/land-planning-and-development/healthy-streets/requirements-and-guidance/section?id=5.2

5.2 Continuous pavements (often called Copenhagen crossings) - Surrey County Council

Our street design code comprises a mixture of mandatory requirements, requirements that require justification to deviate from, and recommendations.

More Wednesday and Sunday walks from Cambridge Living Streets

https://cambridgelivingstreets.org.uk/walks/

Walks Programme

Our aim is to encourage and support everyday walking and wheeling in Cambridge. The route maps on this site record key local walking routes in the city, highlighting their attractions but also…

Cambridge Living Streets

Welp, while I await surgery, I decided to dust off my XFCE ClassicLooks theme I forked like 5 years ago, tweaking it for Gnome/GTK4 as well (and Qt5 and Qt6 - probably overkill though).

Shot of the Solaris ClassicLooks theme on the Gnome Desktop.

#linux #solairs #themes #archlinux

Friday we had a little bit of a pub crawl, going to some otherwise awkward to get to pubs, using the Tiger 4 bus to Newmarket I described a few months ago:

https://petertribble.blogspot.com/2025/07/tiger-bus-to-newmarket.html

Tiger Bus to Newmarket

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority have recently introduced some Tiger bus services. Many locals do not know about the...

Es gibt mehr als nur Linux, besucht uns auf dem #illumos Stand der #clt2026 und probiert gerne unser Demo System aus!
A man, a bike, and a litterpicker – how one resident turned everyday journeys into a mission | Nick Picton
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/eco-nick-the-life-and-times-of-a-litterpicker/?fsp_sid=7887
Eco-Nick – the life and times of a litterpicker

A man, a bike, and a litterpicker – how one resident turned everyday journeys into a mission

East Anglia Bylines | Powerful Citizen Journalism
Any sufficiently complex packaging system will eventually acquire unresolvable circular dependencies.