Kind of neat how well #GNOME apps fit in on macOS :)Since @nila added support for macOS to #puregotk in https://codeberg.org/puregotk/puregotk/pulls/43 this week I thought I’d give it a shot on my new MacBook Neo - and it works really well. Cross-compilation […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

my monthly donation just went through to @kolunmi for their work on bazaar, the flatpak app store for linux: https://github.com/kolunmi/bazaar there's no corporate sponsor or grants yet, so your monthly donation (i recommend github sponsors) makes a huge difference to the project.

p is insisting we drink every old bean in the house before buying “fancy new ones”. including these, which are well over a year old. i’d tell you it’s undrinkable but, somehow, i am drinking it (while i wait for chai to boil)

going to great lengths to release a gentoo package for THAT ONE FRIEND who runs gentoo and refuses to install flatpaks. "practically a saint," they said

written in a cover letter, just now: "sometimes a project’s difficult decisions are more remarkable than its successes" this might be my mantra for 2026

i just heard someone pronounce ar-em-dash-ar-ef as "rimraff" ... is this a thing? from context, this person was not referring to whatever this is: github.com/isaacs/rimraf

just chatted with @pabloyoyoista from @postmarketos.org re: f/oss nonprofit governance and structure, social issues, and the current tipping point in digital sovereignty. he mentioned his recent pmos finance update: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/03/11/pmOS-budget-and-financial-update/ […]

local halifax hacker group has decided angine de poitrine is the most french canadian thing ever. and while perhaps not "most ever" ... man, it's up there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so

i vim /etc/hosts occasionally to let myself onto the youtube. frequently enough that google should know by now: "overly-confident middle-aged white male with big stupid mustache explains things" channels are not of interest, no matter how plentiful they are. i thought this was year of ai

ltt's every-four-years linux experiment should see every staff member at linus media group running bazzite by 2030. maybe fedora for the accountant if pop_os still exists in 2030 he's gonna choose it a third time, i swear

the correct amount of ginger for 2:30am ugh-why-cant-i-sleep chai is “more than that”

testing writes for my rogue sysadmin

this past week has been a weird experiment of seeing how far i can take a tiny xplat gtk app written in typescript. here's how it looks. i must say, gtk on mac and windows is *damn* pretty. untweaked. kudos, gtk devs. ❤️ but ultimately, i ported to c# and wpf on windows, even though it's hideous.

"i know a thing or two about personal computers" he says to himself as he downloads microsoft powertoys, while pretending it's 1996

good GOD. and here i thought my mac was doing a good job of making me thankful for my linux machines. 3pm. still in my pyjamas. windows 10 finally installed. (i had it on a boxes vm. briefly. then i installed wsl and it stopped booting.)

RE: https://mastodon.design/@modal/116161421427145292 if you're looking for work and have the skills, i've heard nothing but good things about working with the modal folks from people i respect (from both sides: folks who awarded contracts and contractors themselves). give them a shout […]

ok, well isn't *this* funny timing: https://help.obsidian.md/sync/headless my (very) dumb immutable + local-first bookmarks thing currently has a headless sync daemon. i was just about to kill it off. would you want a headless daemon to sync your bookmarks (between devices) all the time for you?

tauri came up. for desktop apps so far, i only have linux (gtk + adwaita, typescript) and it's already gone pretty bitrotten since I've been focused on the mobile apps and browser extensions. i'm.... torn. electron works. i hate absolutely everything about it, from the bloat to the security […]

"please let this be the one... they took away all my sres, devops nerds, AND sysadmins. i just want to go to bed." he whispers into the cold, unloving void

i'm not sure *how* but i guess all the hubbub about the new ceo didn't seem "real"? this caught me off guard thankfully the other box is debian stable and by the time forky is released the industry will be over this garbage ✨

"आसव", यह है

RE: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/116142765529679570 this is really nice. every test double dissoc i've written cries out for sweet deliverance now

ok, so 3 alpha testers have requested oauth2 *on a phone* this week... including my mom. ;) oauth2 people: is this a thing you do? you want to log into an app on your phone with the same oauth provider you use for a service? i never use oauth2 unless a website forces me, so i'm ignorant.

me: “i’m telling c that he should be a day trader. but all i know about day traders is that they love this mario sound.” p: *upward punching motion* “because they punch to get money?” i laughed til it hurt

lofi/34 was possibly the best #lofi meetup i've attended yet. great set of speakers. brendan's talk, in particular, was an absolute firehose of information. very fun and makes me even more excited about iroh. ❤️ recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/live/e3bsA2AK0Vw thanks @Yonz for […]

hi frens. i've been making a very silly little bookmarking app for a few weeks now. the play store apparently now requires *twelve* active (closed) testers for two weeks before i'm allowed to push this dumb little thing to prod. if you're willing to install it on an android device, please email me.

@p2panda @jsparber @tbernard there's a good lofi meetup on tuesday, in case you didn't see it: https://lofi.so/ event link is discord, unfortunately, but there's also youtube: https://www.youtube.com/live/e3bsA2AK0Vw?si=dZcgnSn_dGR4qG5Z ...i'm looking forward to all 3 of these talks. ❤️

i have a question for people who actually use safari for some reason: is this normal? do you expect safari to tint your icons, and would you understand that this blue save button icon is actually "greyed out"?

jamie brandon once suggested the term "over-the-wall open source" to me, long before slop patches were a thing. i liked the idea then & i like it now. when 98% of open source projects consist of one or two dedicated hackers anyway, maybe the "community" of open contrib is optional. just a thought.

i didn't really use github much in 2025. i see they unleashed the microsoft product managers on it? so that's fun. if a disgruntled ms employee wanted to release the 2023 github projects source to anna's archive, there'd be gratitude. 🫠 it was for the briefest of moments, the best kanban software

@crmsnbleyd @pojntfx wait what

this "delete" button (required to delete a build and upload a new one, if your app is rejected on review) only shows up on-hover. why. WHY. the only way to know it's there is to already know it's there. apple, if i wanted to solve hidden blocks puzzles, i'd play zelda.

my friend @abnv just published "a short survey of modern compiler targets" in @PagedOut on page 44: https://pagedout.institute/webview.php?issue=8&page=44&article=A+Short+Survey+of+Modern+Compiler+Targets pdf: https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdf

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@valpackett/116092301953870346 these slides are making my heart go pitter patter ❤️ love to see stuff like this! (p2p + lofi apps, identity, and federation … but the slides are pretty and not just for nerds)

while i was e.d. at the #gnome foundation, i heard a story that was only ever told only in oblique references. the story is "this person punched another person on a boat, once, long ago." do any old-timers know who this puncher and punchee were? it's for science.

the problem with llms https://www.deobald.ca/essays/2026-02-10-the-problem-with-llms/ (i know i'm going to get some hate for portions of this on masto... it's ok. i understand.)

in related news, i'm late to the party with the wildly disorienting osx tahoe experience. my brain can't reconcile the parts apple pretty clearly stole straight from #gnome and all the overly-rounded corners in places they don't make any sense combined with 1998 corel photopaint emboss effects. fml

wtaf apple

@p2panda if it's of interest at all, this is what my goofy bookmarking thing will look like in terms of the binding surface area i hope to consume, one day: - flutter (for both ios, android) - rust (native hosts backing firefox and chrome plugins) - typescript (my little gtk app) undecided: - […]

RE: https://autonomous.zone/@p2panda/116040305127217605 this was fun and informative. the #p2panda gang have some neat stuff in the pipeline and they very helpfully answered all my naive questions! sounds like there will be more of these drop-in community hours in the future, if you're interested.

gee willickers बाप रे ஐயோ கடவுளே it sure is fun to release software in 2026! wooooooo

When I grow up, I want to write like this: https://iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-actions-killing-your-team/

not the point of nina's thread, but my heart aches thinking of the first time i booted 4.10. the logo, the wordmark. even the silly tan and brown. ubuntu was really compelling in its earliest days, precisely because it built firmly on upstream work. RE […]

as much as it's in the news* these days, i'm surprised https://handy.computer/ doesn't have a #flatpak yet * alumni networks full of people without fingers

i have decided vibeslop code is major shake https://aqua-teen-hunger-force.fandom.com/wiki/Major_Shake real, old-timey, artisanal code is master shake: ugly and weird and kind of an asshole. but he's the main character

how. many. times. must. i. learn. just. start. with. postgres. 🥫#databased

RE: https://pan.rent/@tommi/115994604319042250 the collaborative story was fun last time, from across the ocean. looks like tommi's laptop is closed but i've added some text to my copy. curious to see what you see, dear reader.

wishing i was at #fosdem but 95% just so i could be incredibly annoying an pick the brains of the @p2panda people the way i've been annoying most of my alumni networks and @halihax #sideprojects residents this week. the lowest-friction way to do last-writer-wins (no conflict detection, no […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tbernard/115989795801943081 #reflection is seriously so much fun ... go find these folks and play with it if you're at #fosdem. real-world meets lo-fi!