Make it so. The October releases.

For Sir Patrick.

Photograph by Tommy Garcia, from Sir Patrick Stewart's official Instagram account

Sir Patrick Stewart died on 28 October, at 86. October's releases are dedicated to him, and to my daughter Ioana, who has loved Jean-Luc Picard since she was a child.

For years, the two of us watched The Next Generation together in the evenings and talked through each episode afterwards. The day after he died, she wrote about him: A chair left full. It says more than I can.

October was a full month: 55 plugin releases, 24 of the MCP server, 236 pull requests and 20 blog posts. I build Respira alone, from Brașov, and I want the month's work to carry his name. The collected October releases are called Make it so. The plugin release that carries his name is 9.3.0, Captain Picard.

This is a dedication, not a campaign. A good captain listens, then says make it so. Respira tries to work the same way: nothing changes on your site until a person says yes.

His family's statement remembered “the dignity, compassion and humanity he brought to every role.” That is a fine thing to aim for, in any kind of work.

What shipped in October.

The crew badge.

Every Respira account can claim a small crew badge for its dashboard, here: respira.press/make-it-so.

His causes.

If you want to do something in his name, this is where he put his own: Refuge, for women who live with domestic abuse; Combat Stress, for veterans' mental health; the International Rescue Committee, for refugees; Amnesty International, for human rights; the University of Huddersfield, where he was Chancellor; and Wags and Walks, the Los Angeles rescue he fostered pit bulls through.