Me 3 years ago: "I wish I could trade some of my motivation to write articles for motivation to code" Me today: "I wish I could trade some of my motivation to code for motivation to write articles"

Yoooo GNOME Settings has removed the X11 backend!!! https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/3269

Me in math class 5 years ago: "dude, why am I learning logarithms, when will this ever be applicable in the real world" Me recently: `BASE_DURATION * log2 (1 + height / (BASE_DURATION * M_PI)) + BASE_DURATION` (Don't ask why this equation "works" or why a specific number or constant is there […]

Question for any blind desktop Linux users, particularly GNOME users, out there: What are the remaining practical issues with running Orca in a Wayland-based GNOME session? I'm guessing inability to synthesize mouse clicks is the main one.

Mutter is finally ready to drop X11 backend from #gnome! https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4505

If you are not yet convinced that Fedora Flatpaks is a hostile 'alternative' to Flathub, here's a good one for you: An indeterminate amount of their packages are, in fact, directly based on existing manifests from Flathub. Not by manually inspecting code themselves; rather, by running a script […]

I'm a monthly donor to my local food bank, but with Republicans leaning into their "let them starve" fetish, I made my regular contribution twice this month. Please support your local community however you can.

The autistic urge to create a static site generator to turn my personal website into a dedicated theme because every option out there either has terrible docs, lacks so many features, or is written in Ruby :(

I gave a short talk at the #ubuntusummit about funding @gnome! Watch it to learn about how GNOME is actually funded, and what we’re doing to help ensure it stays sustainable. 👀 https://www.youtube.com/live/bEEamxJ60aI?t=7h47m29s #ubuntu #linux #gnome

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.

This is, unironically, by far the best analogy I've read about paradox of tolerance: > When you let smelly people in the tent, most other will leave, eventually leaving you with just the bad smell. https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/322?u=theevilskeleton

I've been thinking about creators and distributors. picture a woodworker who crafts a perfectly balanced, minimalist chair. a furniture store loves it and starts selling it. but, to "match their brand", the store paints every chair bright green customers see a green chair. they don't know the […]

It's wild (and unsurprising) to me that journalists act tough when they have ample opportunity to negatively comment on accessibility, but don't ever mention accessibility wins. Despite all the noise I made with accessibility on GNOME Calendar, no journalist has gone further than "better screen […]

#linux folks: I have a patch that I'd like to get merged into `Kconfig` - the GTK4 port I was working on while back. Sadly, it looks like the subsystem has went orphaned recently, and as much as I'd like to step up to maintain it I lack the deeper knowledge about the configuration subsystem […]

Good thing Fedora doesn't package Refine and Upscaler, but I hope I'm doing my part - https://github.com/vshymanskyy/StandWithUkraine - https://github.com/TechForPalestine/badges

Hey, lately, I've been generally unmotivated to contribute to free and open-source projects because I can't sustain myself long-term. I can't find any local or online job that allows me to make a positive impact and not feel depressed. I am not receiving a sufficient number of donations — the […]

Companies keep bragging about how "smart" their smart devices are and keep advertising useless features, yet most, if not all of them can't even restore the time after an outage -.-

Congratulations to @YaLTeR and @DataTriny for getting screen reader accessibility implemented in the latest release of the niri Wayland compositor, using #accesskit. https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v25.08

Upscaler just reached 200 thousand downloads 🥳 https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.theevilskeleton.Upscaler #upscaler #upscaling #GNOME #libadwaita #gtk #gtk4 #FOSS #OpenSource #oss #freesoftware #linux #GNU

As of GNOME 49, GNOME Settings will feature a button for configuring the Orca screen reader! https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/3215 #GNOME #accessibility #a11y #orca #screenreader #screenreaders #linux #FOSS #OpenSource #freesoftware

Playing a bit with some redesign of the public transit itinerary rendering in Maps. #gnome #maps #gnomemaps #mapstodon #publictransport #gtk #libadwaita

[Content warning boost: mention of Islamophobia and genocide in Palestine] https://hachyderm.io/@paulbiggar/115061993703467832 (and the post: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604)

Like, Nautilus is now instant. No loading times between folder changes. How? No idea, probably some new caching logic. But wow

https://youtu.be/LBq3d1MNmBk YouTubers and podcasters who regularly do that will easily be able to recognize themselves :')

I really wish GNOME stopped mirroring everything to GitHub for Codeberg :(

So I made a thing. The vast majority of the time was spent in navigating guidelines around packaging and screenshots (and I probably still have bits of that wrong), and being less familiar with Codeberg than GH. Fedinspect is expected to be more interesting for developers poking around at […]

Maybe it would be a good idea for IBM/Red Hat to stop funding @linuxfoundation and instead spend that 500,000$ hiring developers to work on @gnome...

New #GNOME app release! Just a tiny one, based on the idea from a few weeks ago ( https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/114914889183975793 ). A nice skeumorphic Pomodoro timer, except you get to set the session and pause durations yourself (which happens to be the way I use my physical Pomodoro timer).

Feeling cute, might deploy this later /j

Just saying, if you're a paid developer with a six-figure salary and you use AI to generate your profile picture instead of spending less than 1% of your salary to pay an artist, you suck

I'm always baffled by how strict GNOME developers’ definition of “stable” is nowadays. GNOME OS is considered unstable, yet it has been more stable for me than recent versions of Fedora Workstation and Silverblue. We're talking about bleeding edge: down to the latest commits, along with new […]

I really wish we were getting paid for the accessibility effort we've done (and will continue doing) on GNOME Calendar :(

I love copyleft and I've been wanting a modern version of the GPLv3 for a long time, but I get the feeling that the relaunch of the “copyleft-next” project, as interesting as it sounds, is simultaneously vague, can easily be misconstrued, and doesn't seem to take real world problems into […]

[linux youtubers; negative] Have linux youtubers ever brought attention to a problem in a way that actually helped solving it? Preferably without burning people in doing so?

a great article by @jefffortin42 about the cognitive load of two very different types of people: "chaos warriors" and "goldsmiths": https://fortintam.com/blog/workers-typology-the-goldsmith-and-the-chaos-warrior/ deeply relevant to #gnome #calendar ... i'm very grateful it has this kind of […]

If you are an EU resident, please sign the Stop Killing Games petition! They need all the help they can get, and if this passes it'll go a long way toward ensuring the game library you've paid for is playable in perpetuity.

[Content warning boost: mention of Nazism] https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/114743158253156863

[Content warning boost: Mentions of Fascism/Nazism] https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/114731387380034940

It's always funny to me how people continue to convince themselves that companies always failed to work with GNOME, and then proceed to say that GNOME is a corporate project Like no, that's not how it works. We will not shy away to tell corporations to fuck off. We did that to Canonical 15 […]

I can't stop laughing at this https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/

Thank you #GNOME team :ms_paw_print: "We can’t afford to stay silent in times when history is literally being erased, and fundamental human rights are being revoked. Silence is complicity. We will not falter at this attempt to divide queer communities. We also encourage everyone to be as […]

[Pedophilia; US politics; apropos to the two homophobic expired mayos breaking up] Despite Elon Musk doing the "correct" thing for once in his entire lifetime, always remember: fascists only use the "pedophile" card when it's convenient for them […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

Starting from version 3.1.2, the GNU Image Manipulation Program will have the option to respect the system color scheme on Linux, thanks to XDG Desktop Portal. Every desktop that supports the Settings portal interface will be able to make use of that functionality. @GIMP #gimp #GnuIMP

[Fosstodon meta, another fascist mod] in case anyone missed it over the weekend: the new, improved Fosstodon dot org platformed a fash mod _again._ people had to raise the alarm over him _again,_ and he stepped down of his own accord before he could be held accountable _again._ the story in […]

Question for Ukrainians: Do public statements in support of Ukraine in people's bio and website make you feel safe(r) around them? I've been thinking of publicly stating support for Ukraine for more than a year now, but I worry I'd come off as someone who's virtue signaling, resulting in the […]

One of the most valuable skills I've learned while working in open source communities is the ability to simply shut up after making my point in a discussion. Did I convince the people I needed to convince? Not this time. Does it matter? Nope!

People don't realize that half of the GNOME developers are queer and are like "girls,, 👉👈 🥺", which is really disappointing :(