I’ve just tagged fwupd . . with lots of nice new features, and most importantly with new protocol support to allow applying the latest dbx security update. The big change to the uefi dbx plugin is the switch to an ISO date as a dbx version number for the Microsoft KEK. The original trick of ...

   Up early, sync with Dave, Anuj, lunch with Julia, worked away at contractuals. Onto mail catch up, and slides.

   Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January to January . Flatpak Georges Stavracas feaneron reports Last week, the Flatpak . . was released. It’s the first stable release in years A lot has happened in the meantime, some of the highlights are: Listing...

   Up too early; train with Christian, sky train, some data analysis on the plane, heathrow express. Home, read minutes of calls I missed: seems I should miss more calls; text review, dinner with the family. Worked after dinner, missed bible stidy group, bed early.

   I’m trying to blog quicker this year. I’m also sick with the flu. Forgive any mistakes caused by speed, brevity, or fever.Monday brought two big announcements in the non traditional open open ish social network space, with Mastodon moving towards non profit governance asking for M in...

   Are exceptions faster and or bloatier than using error codes Well...The traditional wisdom is that exceptions are faster when not taken, slower when taken and lead to more bloated code. On the other hand there are cases where using exceptions makes code a lot smaller. In embedded development, even...

   Last week I published the Flatpak . . release This marks the beginning of the . stable series. This release comes after more than two years since Flatpak ., so it’s pretty packed with new features, bug fixes, and improvements. Let’s have a look at some of the highlights USB...

   I just found a funny failure mode in the Whippet garbage collector and thought readers might be amused.Say you have a semi space nursery and a semi space old generation. Both are block structured. You are allocating live data, say, a long linked list. Allocation fills the nursery, which triggers...

   Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January to January . GNOME Core Apps and Libraries nielsdg reports gcr, a core library that provides a GObject oriented interface to several crypto APIs, is preparing for the new . version with the alpha release . . . It...

   Prerequisite Hi I’m Anointing, your friendly neighborhood software engineer. I’m an Outreachy GNOME intern currently working on the project titled Implement the SVG Text Layout Algorithm in Librsvg. In a previous blog post, I briefly introduced my project and tasks. If you missed it, don’t...

   Happy new year, hackfolk Today, a note about ephemerons. I thought I was done with them, but it seems they are not done with me. The question at hand is, how do we efficiently and correctly implement ephemerons in a generational collector Whippet s answer turns out to be simple but subtle.on...

   As I’ve already announced internally, I’m stepping down from putting together an STF application for this year. For inquiries about the application, please contact Adrian Vovk going forward. This is independent of the STF project, which we’re still in the process of wrapping up. I’m...

   A new year begins, a good time to share some various news about gedit. gedit text editor.org gedit has a new domain name for its website: gedit text editor.org Previously, the gedit homepage was on the GNOME wiki, but the wiki has been retired. So a new website has been set up. ...

   gedit has been released and is available on the three main desktop operating systems. Let’s look at the highlights of this new version. Dark theme The dark theme support has already been covered. World gedit subgroup on GNOME’s GitLab The main Git repositories of gedit are...

   It’s , and I thought I’d kick off the year with a post about some work that we’ve been doing behind the scenes for a while. Grab a cup of beverage of choice, and let’s jump in with some context. History: Hearing aids and Bluetooth Various estimates put the number of people with some form of...

   I was going to do a single post on my reading in , but realized it probably makes more sense as a two parter: the things I used to read this post , and the things I actually read at least one post on books, maybe a second on news and feeds . Feeds I still read a lot of feeds and...

   In non chronological order Earned money for the first time within many many years. Wrote C bindings and GObject introspection annotations for a Rust library for the first time. Wrote weekly updates on Patreon Ko Fi. Got formally diagnosed with Autism. Implemented some basic image editing in...

   Hi everyone It’s been about two weeks since UbuCon Asia Ubuntu Conference Asia concluded fun fact: weeks since I wrote the initial draft, so now , and I’m really starting to miss it. This blog is being posted after my GNOME Asia post as it was really hard to pack all the emotions and...

   I have just released version . of CapyPDF. This release has a ton of new functionality. So much, in fact, that I don’t even remember them all. The reason for this is that it is actually starting to see real world usage, specifically as the new color managed PDF exporter for Inkscape. It has...

   Prerequisite I have been an Outreachy GNOME intern for a while now. GNOME is a free and open source desktop environment for Linux and similar systems. It consists of quite a number of projects that make up the entire overall system, and the one I am working on for my internship is Librsvg. About...

   Not all of my projects this December are code related. In fact a lot of them have been house maintenance things, joy of home ownership and all. This week was spent building my new office and music space. I wanted a way to have my amplifiers and guitars more accessible while also creating a sort of ...

   In late June I got asked to take over the work started by Jerry Wu creating a systemd sysupdate plugin for Software. The goal was to allow Software to update sysupdate targets, such as base system images or system extension images, all while respecting the user’s preferences such as whether to...

   In line with traditions, it’s time for the yearly end of the year Maps blog post There’s been some quite nice happenings this year when it comes to Maps and the underlaying libshumate, our map widget library .Vector Map Enabled by DefaultThe biggest change, by large that’s happened in is that...

   Lately I’ve been working on touch controls overlays in Highscore , and quickly found out that previewing them across different screen sizes is rather tedious. Currently we have two ways of testing UIs on a different screen size resize the window, or run the app on that device. Generally when...

   Two weeks ago we got together in Berlin for another Un boiling The Ocean event slight name change because Mastodon does not deal well with metaphors . This time it was laser focused on local first sync, i.e. software that can move seamlessly between real time collaboration when there’s a network...

   This is a heads up that if you file an issue in the libinput issue tracker, it’s very likely this issue will be closed. And this post explains why that’s a good thing, why it doesn’t mean what you want, and most importantly why you shouldn’t get angry about it. Unfixed issues have, roughly, two...

   Last week we released systemd v into the wild. In the weeks leading up to this release and the week after I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release, under the systemd hash tag. In case you aren’t using Mastodon, but would like to read up...

   I am delighted to announce that I am mentoring Adetoye Anointing for the December round of Outreachy. Anointing will be working on librsvg, on implementing the SVG text layout algorithm. This is his first blog post about the internship. There is a lot of work to do Text layout is a complex...

   Table of Contents Table of Contents . Introduction . Achievements . . Major achievements . . Minor achievements . Minor annoyances bugs that were also fixed in . . Our brand new and renewed partnerships Expressing my gratitude . Introduction Time is passing by very quickly and...

   Early on Builder had the concept of layered settings. You had an application default layer the user could control. You also had a project layer which allowed the user to change settings just for that project. But that was about the extent of it. Additionally, these settings were just stored in your...

   Its been an interesting and cold month so far. I made a successful trip to the UK, one of the first times I’ve been back in winter and avoided being exposed to COVID since the pandemic, so that’s a step forwards. I’ve been thinking a lot about documentation recently in a few different places...

   Namaste Everyone Hi everyone, it was that time of the year again when we had our beloved GNOME Asia happening. Last year GNOME Asia happened in Kathmandu Nepal from December and this time it happened in my country in Bengaluru from th to th. Btw, a disclaimer I was there on behalf of...

   If you follow me on the fediverse cassidy blaede.family , you may have seen me recently gushing about ROTA, a video game I recently discovered. Besides the absolutely charming design and ridiculously satisfying gameplay, the game itself is open source, meaning the developer has published the game...

   We are excited to announce that the GNOME Foundation is sponsoring an Outreachy internship for the December March round The intern will work with mentor Federico Mena Quintero on the project, Implement the SVG text layout algorithm in librsvg. The intern’s blog will soon be added to Planet...

   During my Outreachy internship with GNOME, Tamnjong Larry Tabeh and I conducted user research exercises under the inspiring mentorship of Allan Day and Aryan Kaushik. In this blog post, I’ll discuss the usability test we conducted for GNOME’s Files, also known as Nautilus. This blog post will...

   While cutting the . release earlier today, I couldn’t help but reflect on everything we’ve accomplished this cycle. But instead of just listing code changes, I want to use this opportunity to give credit where it’s due, because to me, software is about people Much of what we have achieved this...

   Hello, I am pleased to announce a new Cambalache stable release. Version . . Accessibility Release Gtk and Gtk accessibility support Support property subclass override defaults AdwDialog placeholder support Improved object description in hierarchy Lots of bug fixes and minor UI...

   It’s the time for a new Hack Week. The Hack Week was from November th to November th, and I’ve decided to join the New openSUSE welcome project this time. The idea of this project is to revisit the existing openSUSE welcome app, and I’ve been trying to help here, specifically for the GNOME...

   A month of low energy here. My work day is spent on a corporate project which I can’t talk about due to NDAs, although I can say it’s largely grunt work at the moment. I’m not much of a gamer but sometimes you need a dose of solid fun. I finally started playing through Age of Empires II: The...

   Le weekend du et novembre , j’ai eu le plaisir d’aller au Capitole du Libre CdL , une chouette conférence tenue tous les ans à Toulouse, et j’ai envie de revenir dessus. Le CdL rassemble la communauté libriste française, avec une représentation notable du milieu associatif. On y trouve...