April 2026: What I've Been Working On
April was a bit more productive than March.
BookStack
A couple of patch releases this month, one being a security patch (albeit low risk relative to some of the other recent security releases). Otherwise I’ve been making progress on many various little improvements for the next feature release, which I’ll aim to wrap up in a feature release for May.
I published some community updates after doing some further work on our new project rules and community spaces.
Later in the month I finally migrated the main project repo to Codeberg, meaning all BookStack code is now managed off GitHub. This has been received quite well, and so far has been relatively smooth sailing. There’s some awkwardness working on old branches for patch releases, since our testing integrations are still attempting to use the old GitHub-based actions, but that should solve itself after the next feature release.
IsItReallyFOSS
Managed to spend a lot more time on this in April, adding 10 new projects.
The Conda, Miniconda, Anaconda trio took a while to understand since they’re very related but distinct projects under separate governance, but contributor @esmenard helped out a lot (and has been helping with adding various other projects too!).
I thought the LibreOffice case was interesting. Despite contacting them via various means, they could not state why they have a top-level GPLv3 license file and how they’re considering usage of included GPLv3 libraries.
3D Print Models
Shared many models this month, although many are part of a collection:
- Replacement Internal Pusher Part for Hot Wheels Slam Launcher
- Created this to replace a broken part in my nephew’s Hot Wheels set. Probably went through about 6 prototypes to get something which fit well and didn’t get stuck when exposed to the forces it’d receive when slammed.
- Greenhouse Triangular Vent Panel
- Made this to allow some better air flow in my greenhouse, since things are getting warmer. Quite a large model, so needed printing in two parts with some “welding” together using a soldering iron.
- Greenhouse Parts Collection
- Created a proper printables page for many old and new little greenhouse parts I’ve designed over the years.
danb/rss
Done a little work on my RSS app to shrink the docker image down a bit. Need to do a little extra testing before releasing though, and I also plan on adding a new grid view for a more dense and visual layout.
Blog Posts
Just one post again in April: