Let’s talk about Moonforge
In which I talk a bit about what I ve been doing at Igalia in 2025
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Governance in GNOME
In which I talk about introducing a formal technical governance in the GNOME project
Introspection’s edge
In which I go over the plans for gobject-introspection
The Mirror
In which I go down the rabbit hole of the GObject type system design and a possible future
Configuring portals
In which I explain what desktop developers, distributions, and users can do to configure sandbox portals
Writing Bindable API, 2023 Edition
In which I make an attempt at encoding best introspection practices for API writers
On PyGObject
In which I look at the state of the Python bindings for the GNOME platform
Amberol
In which I write a music player mostly for me
Fair Weather Friends
In which I announce the release of the first GWeather-4 developers snapshot
GWeather next
In which I explain what is happening in the libgweather repository
Properties, introspection, and you
In which I explain some changes in the GObject introspection format that landed in GNOME 41
Publishing your documentation
In which I explain how to build and publish your library s API reference on GitLab
Documenting GNOME for developers
In which I outline what comes next in the developers documentation of the GNOME platform
Final Types
In which I introduce a new GObject feature
More documentation changes
In which I report about the status of gi-docgen
Documentation changes
In which I talk about a new tool to generate the API reference for GTK
Type instances
In which we talk about derivable types that are not GObject
Another layer
In which I announce a new release of Graphene
More little testing
In which I announce that Graphene moved to a new testing API
(New) Adventures in CI
In which I talk about test reports with GitLab CI
A little testing
In which I present a small testing framework for C code
Episode 2.a: Building GNOME
A side episode! Building GNOME is complicated; releasing GNOME is even worse. We re going to see what tools GNOME developers used to build GNOME 2.
Episode 2.2: Release Day
The GNOME 2 release process meant re-evaluating everything that makes a desktop environment: from its design, to the design of all of its applications, to the release process, to the interaction of settings and preferences.
Episode 2.1: On Brand
A wild GTK major API change appears! It uses better text and icon rendering. It s super effective! GNOME dons flame retardant pants. It s not very effective!
Episode 2.0: Retrospective
A retrospective on GNOME 1.x, before we launch into the main narrative of GNOME 2; we re going to look back at what GNOME 1 did right; what it did wrong; and what it meant in the larger context of the history of the project
And I’m home
In which I talk about life this past year, and changing jobs from Endless to the GNOME Foundation
Episode 1.c: Applications
A side episode! Early applications in the GNOME 1.x era
Episode 1.b: Bindings
A side episode! Language bindings in the early GNOME era take the front stage
Episode 1.a: The GIMP Toolkit
A side episode! We re going to take a look to GTK in its first major API cycle
Episode 1.5: End of the road
GNOME 1.4 gets released, and development work for GNOME 2 being in earnest; but things come crashing down once the Dot com bubble bursts, and GNOME loses an ally
Episode 1.4: Founding the Foundation
Exciting times for the GNOME project. The first GUADEC is held in Paris! The Foundation gets founded! Plus: CVS and Bugzilla!
Episode 1.3: Land of the bonobos
New companies form around GNOME ! Ximian and Eazel work on making GNOME useful for corporate environments and casual users, and start shaping the technology stack with components for applications to use and reuse.
Episode 1.2: Desktop Wars
The desktop wars begin, and competitions heats up. We re going to see the initial reaction to KDE s licensing woes in the larger Linux ecosystem, and how that played into GNOME s adoption. Plus: Red Hat enters the fray, and creates the Red Hat Advanced Development laboratories, and GNOME releases version 1.0
The History of GNOME
In which I announce my podcast on the history of the GNOME project
Episode 1.1: GNOME
The GNOME project is announced! We re going to see what the Linux world looked like, and why the GNOME project was started; what was available at the time, for Unix and Linux users, and the beginning of complex desktop environments on Linux, ending on the first few months of the project
Prologue
GNOME is made by people, and people make history: complicated, recurring, funny, sad, and everything in between; this is my attempt at compiling an history of the GNOME project to provide a better context not just of past decisions, but also of its future directions
History of GNOME: Table of Contents
Episode 0: Prologue What Why Who How Chapter 1: Perfection, achieved Episode 1.1: The GNU Network Object Model Environment Linux and Unix X11, and the desktop landscape KDE and the Qt licensing GNU Image Manipulation Program GTK Guile and language bindings Network Object Model Episode 1.2: Desktop Wars …
Reference counting in modern GLib
In which I explain how to implement reference counting with new GLib ≥ 2.58
pkg-config and paths
In which I explain how to use paths and pkg-config variables
Recipes hackfest
In which I recap the Recipes hackfest held in Yogyakarta
GLib tools rewrite
In which I make a public service announcement about the small utilities provided by GLib
GUADEC 2017
In which I report my activities at GUADEC 2017
Dev v Ops
In which application development and packaging are discussed, vis-a-vis old and new practices
Further experiments in Meson
in which more components gets ported to Meson
On Vala
In which I look at the state of Vala and hope for some introspection to happen
Epoxy
In which I recount the process of moving libepoxy to Meson and becoming its maintainer
Constraints editing
In which a wild editor of constraints appears inside Emeus
Laptop review
In which I do a review of two laptops: Dell XPS (2016) and Lenovo Yoga 900