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02/2026 slixmpp v1...
02/2026 slixmpp v1.13
02/2026 Issues wit...
01/2026 2025 hobbi...
01/2026 XMPP and metadata
12/2025 XMPP at 39C3!
11/2025 This is no...
10/2025 slixmpp v1.12
09/2025 slixmpp v1.11

slixmpp v1.13.2 (and .1)

by mathieui
on Sun 08 February 2026

Tags: xmpp-en xmpp slixmpp

Version 1.13.0 has shipped with a packaging bug that affects people trying to build wheels using setuptools. 1.13.1 is an attempt to fix that (made packaging from git work somehow), and 1.13.2 is the correct fix thanks to one single additional character.

There are no other changes, and pypi wheels are not affected because they are built in CI with uv.

Links

You can find the new release on codeberg, pypi, or the distributions that package it in a short while.

Previous version: 1.13.0.

slixmpp v1.13

by mathieui
on Sat 07 February 2026

Tags: xmpp-en xmpp slixmpp

This version fixes a regression in the previous release regarding joining rooms, improves compatibility with the new aiodns releases, and brings a number of other features and fixes.

Thanks to everyone involved (with new contributors) for this release!

Fixes

A lot of deprecation warnings for current and future python versions …

Issues with AI: toxic dependencies

by mathieui
on Fri 06 February 2026

Tags: opinion rambling ai

This is the first part of a series of essays on so-called "AI", because I cannot manage to have the split focus on all the issues for a single blog post. This one has a focus on the relationship with our tools and production, particularly in the context of coding …

2025 hobbies wrapped

by mathieui
on Mon 12 January 2026

Tags: personal meta

In video games

I clearly don’t game as much as I could, given my expansive GoG, Humble Bundle and Switch game collection, but I did sink quite a few hours into video games this year.

First, the re-release of Xenoblade Chronicles X on the switch with plenty of Quality …

XMPP and metadata

by mathieui
on Tue 06 January 2026

Tags: xmpp ccc xmpp-en

I had the pleasure of giving a talk on "XMPP and Metadata" during the last Chaos Communication Congress, in the Critical Decentralization Cluster area. It was my first public presentation in a very long while (also in english), so the talk went okay-ish at best. The end of the year …

XMPP at 39C3!

by mathieui
on Fri 12 December 2025

Tags: xmpp-en xmpp ccc congress 39c3

The XMPP assembly for 39C3 has been confirmed!

The Chaos Communication Congress is a hacker conference that takes place every year barring specific world-ending events, and in which more than 10 000 hackers come together in Hamburg (or previously Leipzig or Berlin).

We will have a space inside the Critical …

This is not the future

by mathieui
on Sat 08 November 2025

I thought about this when reading a mastodon post which commented on a news where a project adopted a "use Generative AI but disclose it" policy, because it is "the future" and "people are going to use it anyway".

I find the "this is the future, like it or not …

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