Is it a bad day to mention we support local accounts?

off to a 30-day vipassana course tomorrow. goodnight, internet. see you all on november 20th. in the meantime, i am still looking for f/oss work — preferably in or around the linux desktop. if you liked the changes i made to the @gnome foundation in the few months i was there, email me.

lofi apps are just fussy databases.

tl;dr local-first != crdts the granularity of your events matters and is application-dependent (and service-dependent). save buttons are good. immutable data is good. encryption makes everything hard. think in messages/events, not states. sometimes you just want a centralized service […]

i've been thinking about code of conduct committees a lot recently, and i'm increasingly of the opinion that @thelinuxEXP has the right idea here: https://youtu.be/iMqpm2Ahmt0?t=1181 how on earth is cocc/mod behaviour less transparent than full-blown court proceedings in cases where the […]

#localfirst doesn't have to be about collaboration. you can 100% have a #lofi app that stores data on your laptop, desktop, and phone without ever engaging a second human being. multiplayer is cool — but you don't have to solve the hardest problems first.

the new shower setup at the cabin is obnoxiously loud but it's a small price to pay to actually shower once or twice a week. de-luxe. or... it would be. if this drought wasn't keeping the well completely dry. :/

curious if audacity 4 is going to be another gnome 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G38 also curious when @mattgodbolt will switch for 2sc or if the muscle memory will never be replaced

any time i pass a car parked in the bicycle lane, i'm careful to knock loudly on the body of the vehicle with my knuckles. i find your average motorist is very receptive to this. they appreciate being alerted to their error. if concerned about your fingers, use a large metal object instead.

while working on the win10 -> gnome a4 for the halifax #endof10 event, i installed microsoft edge from flathub because... i dunno, it's there and why not, i guess. are all microsoft products this obnoxious? it really rivals google for shitty user interfaces. it started with the world's slowest […]

i spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about this tweet: https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/113805205493443384 like, every day. i want my job to be whatever it takes to accomplish this goal.

"Why isn't there a Fedora LTS?" @jorge heard you and decided it was time! @UniversalBlue have worked with the @centos community to bring you... Bluefin LTS Learn more: https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/bluefin-lts-ga/ #bluefin #centos #fedora #linux #opensource

35 years on, we have decided to reinvent corba but in typescript this time: https://blog.cloudflare.com/capnweb-javascript-rpc-library/ somehow, i don't hate it? i kinda wish they'd gone with standard-ish rich types for json... a minor complaint if you don't touch internals: > Arrays are […]

"we don't like your fake plastic money or your free healthcare, so we're going to pay you less as punishment." cute that the numbers are lower _in canadian dollars_ like they're going to sneak the 32% paycut in there unnoticed 😂

while i was doing my illegal internet activities during my time off, i did sneak a peak at the new #gnome foundation update from @allanday - https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/09/05/foundation-update-2025-09-05/ good stuff. :) i'm happy to see him keeping the torch lit and it looks like he'll […]

that michael dell, thoughtfully doing @Endof10 marketing for them. what a guy. *tip-toes back into the forest to hide*

i'm off-grid until sept 22. thanks to all the #gnome hackers for your support. you folks are very sweet. ❤️

yes, this was a real thing in my home province. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alm4Mk5MYjU

off the back of a lovely conversation with @jnsgruk where we both agreed that "gnome calendar is easily the most beautiful calendar app out there", i've been thinking about the occasional question i've received about what to build in the app tier. previously, i'd waffle with some non-committal […]

just dropped p off at school for her first day of her second masters degree. we still need a lunchbox for this purpose: tiffin or american construction worker style? it'll be neat to have an epidemiologist in the house when the next pandemic hits.

Oir community have always tried to embrace the upstream-first approach to development, and one of the largest roadblocks in that respect is often the Linux Kernel itself. For better or worse it takes quite a lot of effort to get devicetree files and drivers upstreamed, but this is by far one of […]

watching golden girls episode "cheaters", where sophia is up late "having a maalox moment" and ends the scene complaining about the lack of brand name q-tips in the house. p: "omg. it's... it's you! you are sophia petrillo!" i WISH

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix. UNIX stands for Uniplexed Information Computing System ('unics'). Therefore, GIMP's full name is GNU's Not Uniplexed Information Computing Systems Image Manipulation Program.

@jorge my worlds are colliding bro #endof10 #endof11questionmark

today was my last day as the @gnome foundation executive director: https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/08/29/thanks-and-farewell-to-steven-deobald/ https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/08/29/so-short-and-thanks-for-all-the-flinch/ still around as a foundation member, though. see you on matrix […]

sometimes i feel like conversations in this household might as well be between a puppy and a crow. i am the crow

तण्हा तृष्णा

every time i’m reminded of this nonsense, my heart is warmed thinking of the work the folks at nilenso are doing

during tea this morning, p and i were reflecting on the fact that most of our friends these days are 60 - 90 year old women. nothing insightful, romantic, or significant about that. it’s just nice.

ugh.

I’m looking for my next challenge in some intersection of open source, community, and developer advocacy! I am passionate about helping others and doing good with technology, in particular—thus I’m especially interested in working with a non-profit or strongly value-aligned organization. I’ve […]

whatsapp: because how else would i know that my urologist from chennai had a wholesome and fulfilling birthday party last night?

found out recently that the park by my house is still owned by the british and that we send an xmas tree to boston every year to thank them for helping out during the halifax explosion. unrelated boston fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood this tweet is not coherent

@mattgodbolt congrats on the aws sponsorship, dude! ❤️

well, that's a huge relief

wow this is hard. my brain stores the numbers 1 - 10 as a linked list, apparently? it's like hitting a brick wall every time, unless i create two lists in advance and interleave them: one, three, five, seven, nine दो, चार, छे, आठ, दीस *zip* pretty sure the zipper technique counts as cheating […]

trademark violations, delivered to my doorstep 😂

Aren’t we all?

me: “i’ve only slept 4 hours a night for 18 days, except for the one night where i crashed and blacked out for 10 hours. i wonder what this situation is doing to my mental health.” p: “what are you talking about? you haven’t slept more than 6 hours a night for THREE MONTHS” ok whoa slow down […]

https://www.bassi.io/articles/2025/08/03/governance-in-gnome/ "If you want to play with the other children, if you want to be part of GNOME, you get to play with a shared set of rules; and that means sharing all the toys, and not hoarding them for yourself." word. h/t @ebassi

@gnome @ebassi @tyrylu @swick @mirkobrombin @deobald 👆 My (german) article about GUADEC 2025 (I hope I didn't forget anybody :D)

the forest knows what i need. it speaks to me... though magit.

if anyone of you happens to be at #fossy could you please ask karen to check her email? she can search for the subject line with "URGENT" in it. i can't seem to get her by text. #fossy2025 #thanks #yesiknowthisisweird

i promise you that elle cordova skits are there only usa politics you’ll ever see on my mastodon.

i’m amazed it’s as high as 6, honestly.

this, as it turns out, is not a toothpaste.

the frequency of "this is culturally inappropriate" in a formal british voice overlaid on this clipse album is breaking my brian #thatonesforgeoff

my front yard while crashing with @jsparber for the past week at #guadec2025 you’re alright, italy. 🇮🇹

new albums from clipse *and* hanumankind. you're alright, july. 🌄