When you’re looking at source code it can be helpful to have some evidenceindicating who wrote it. Author tags give a surface level indication, butit...

   Suddenly I have been hearing the term Landlock more in (agent) securitycircles. To me this is a bit weird because while Landlockis absolutely a...

   As I talked about in a couple of blog posts now I been working a lot with AI recently as part of my day to day job at Red Hat, but also spending a...

   Sustaining GNOME by directly funding contributorsThe GNOME Foundation is excited to announce the GNOME Fellowship program, a new initiative to fund...

   On March 17 we released systemd v260 into the wild.In the weeks leading up to that release (and since then) I have posteda series of serieses of...

   I published three Rust crates:name-to-handle-at: Safe, low-level Rust bindings for Linux name to handle at and open by handle at system callspidfd...

   gedit 50.0 has been released Here are the highlights since version 49.0 from January. (Some sections are a bit technical).No Large Language Models AI...

   Because I am bad at giving up on things, I’ve been running my own emailserver for over 20 years. Some of that time it’s been a PC at the end of aDSL...

   GNOME Kiosk, the lightweight, specialized compositor continues to evolve In GNOME 50 by adding new configuration options and improving accessibility...

   Hear ye, hear ye: Wastrel and Hoot means REPL Which is to say, Wastrel cannow make native binaries out of WebAssembly files as produced by theHoot...

   Over the past week, I’ve been building goblint, a linter specifically designed for GObject-based C codebases.If you know Rust’s clippy or Go’s go vet...

   This post attempts to explain how Huion tablet devices currently integrate into the desktop stack. I’ll touch a bit on the Huion driver and the...

   Red Hat just published the Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.Accessibility Conformance Reports basically...

   This winter I was bored and needed something new, so I spent lots of my freetime disassembling and analysing Monster World IV for the SEGA Mega Drive...

   It’s been a while since we last shared a major update of Graphs. We’ve had a few minor releases, but the last time we had a substantial feature...

   There was a silly little project I’d tried to encourage many folks to attempt last summer. Sri picked it up back in September and after many months,...

   In our previous episode we wrote a merge sort implementation that runs a bit faster than the one in stdlibc . The question then becomes, could it be...

   Table of ContentsIntroductionThe problemArchitecture overviewThe VCL layerThe POST-to-GET conversionProtecting private repositoriesThe Lua...

   Welcome to another update about everything that’s been happening at the GNOME Foundation. It’s been four weeks since my last post, due to a vacation...

   If you have recently installed a very up-to-date Linux distribution with a desktop environment, or upgraded your system on a rolling-release...

   I am very happy to announce a new version of Casilda A simple Wayland compositor widget for Gtk 4 originally created for CambalacheThis release comes...

   After wrapping up a four-part series on free trade and theleft,I thought I was done with neoliberalism. I had come to the conclusionthat neoliberals...

   When I have to play with a container image I have never met before, I like to deploy it on a test cluster to poke and prod it. I usually did that on...

   In the past I have written many blog posts on implementing various PDF features in CapyPDF. Typically they explain the feature being implemented, how...

   It’s a question I had to ask myself multiple times over the last few months. Depending on the context the answer can be:very simple, just call the...

   Hello there,You thought I’d given up on status update blog posts, did you ? I haven’t given up, despite my better judgement, this one is just even...

   I was excited to see Bilal’s announcement of goblint, and I’ve spent the past week getting Crosswords to work with it. This is a tool I’ve always...

   If you work with patches and git am, then you’re probably used to seeing patches fail to apply. For example: git am CVE-2025-14512.patchApplying...

   A few years back I did a quick exploration of what GNOME app icons might look like in an alternate universe where we kept on using VGA displays....

   At the start of the month, Bilal gave us all a giant gift with Goblint. On the first week it was already impressive. Now it’s an invaluable tool for...

   I got myself a Yubikey recently, and I wanted to use it as a nice convenience to:Grant me sudo privilegesUnlock my sessionDecrypt my LUKS-encrypted...

   I heard the news about Seth Nickell’s passing last week, and have been in a bit of a funk ever since.Seth was brilliant, iconoclastic, fearless.It’s...

   Recently, I have been using GNOME OS, as my daily driver.After being a seasoned Linux for long, dabbling in distros like Alpine Linux, Arch Linux,...

   Yesterday, I wanted to debug a glycin (or Shell) issue on GNOME OS. Turns out, there is currently no documentation that works or includes all...

   GNOME is once again participating in GSoC. This year, we have 6 contributors working on adding Debug Adapter Protocol support to GJS, incorporating...

   Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 24 to May 01.GNOME Circle Apps and LibrariesNewsFlash feed reader Follow your...

   It’s the first day of May, and it’s time for another update on what’s been happening at the GNOME Foundation. It’s been two weeks since my last post,...

   Table of ContentsIntroductionThe MCS problemThe test scriptGitLab’s official suggestion and why it falls shortHow GNOME currently handles...

   USB-C is excellent, provided you don’t look too closely.I’ve been seeing a drum beat of interest in the internals of USB-C. Darryl Morley’s macOS...

   I believe accountability can be a challenge in a nonprofit, which only makes it all the more important. In this post, I am holding myself accountable...

   Some great news: I’m pleased to announce that both Dell and Lenovo have agreed to be premier sponsors for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as...

   Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from May 01 to May 08.GNOME Core Apps and LibrariesGlycin Sandboxed and extendable image...

   I’m a sucker for pixel art and very constrained music grooveboxes. While I’m not into chiptunes, they sure are a cultural phenomenon.You heard me...

   A slightly more collected version of originally 18 Signal messages. This is a simplification. I am evidently no expert in Unicode specifically or...

   Yelp 49.1 fixes a significant Flatpak sandbox escape related to last year’s CVE-2025-3155. CVE assignment for this new issue is currently pending...

   Last summer I wrote up Octopus Agile Prices For Linux, a small GTK app to show the current Octopus Agile electricity price and the next day of half...

   I am delighted to announce that I am returning for Google Summer of Code 2026 to contribute to GNOME once again. Following my work on Crosswords last...

   For about the past month, I have no longer been with Red Hat.That is a strange sentence to write after so many years, but life has a way of changing...

   Libdex now has DexLimiter, a small utility for bounding how much asynchronous work runs at once.This is useful when a workload can produce more...

   A little while ago, my colleague Sebastian started complaining about OOMs caused by Evolution taking up tens of gigabytes of memory. We discussed...