The Machinist
This dark noir has a reveal, but the path to it is an experience.
Even a Stopped Clock
Latest posts
Flatpak.org Rewrite
Flatpak website deserved a better backend.
Things That Last
Bikes don't age.
Welcome to the Icon Designer Webring!
Bringing back the old boring internet, one icon at a time.
Backrooms
Not the best film ever, but in today's Hollywood landscape it’s a rare breath of fresh air.
USS/FMS Carrier
Ess Mattisson made a tiny 2-op FM synth and sequencer for the Gameboy Advance, and it's brilliant.
Revert That Vector Nonsense!
GNOME app icons were meant to be pixels. None of that SVG BS.
120+ Icons and Counting
How the GNOME Design Team's app-icon-requests project has boosted app icon quality across the Linux desktop, and how you can help.
release.gnome.org refactor
After successfully moving this blog to Zola, doubts got suppressed and I found my favorite SSG.
Moving to Zola
Finally ditching Jekyll for something modern.
Japan
Visiting Japan is special. Skipping Tokio last time meant we had to come back.
Friday Sketches (part 2)
Continuing to share app icon design sketches on Mastodon every Friday.
GNOME 50 Wallpapers
Hexagons finally claim the default spot in GNOME's wallpaper lineup.
Dithering
Using GIMP's GEGL dithering as an artistic device in GNOME wallpapers.
12 months instead of 12 minutes
How we iterated on GNOME.org's 3D hero image the old-fashioned way.
USB MIDI Controllers on the M8
Wrangling USB MIDI dongles to add pots and pads to the M8.
HDR Wallpapers
GNOME 49 wallpapers embrace wider gamuts and higher bit depth.
Scavengers Reign
An animated series so good I already miss it after the last episode.
Ode to HTML
Going back to basics with clean HTML and CSS, no frameworks needed.
GNOME 47 Wallpapers
Wallpaper deep dive for GNOME 47, including a simulated depth-of-field trick.
Weyland
Alien: Romulus exceeded my expectations — mainly because I had none.
Autonomous Cameraman
DJI's tiny Neo drone is a button-operated flying cameraman.
Klatovy FPV
Hanging out at Czechia's longest-running FPV event, rusty sticks and all.
New Music
Discovering remarkable artists and remembering to actually blog about it.
Sketch Friday
Sharing app icon design sketches on Mastodon every Friday.
GNOME 46 Wallpapers
Bringing JPEG-XL and synthesized grain to GNOME wallpapers.
Looking Back at 2023
A dust spec reflects on music, FPV, and another trip around the sun.
Colorful HIG
Making HIG illustrations work in dark mode with inline SVG tricks.
GNOME 45 Wallpapers
Geometry nodes, mesh gradients, and the stories behind the 45 set.
Skull Buster
Finally making a game after wanting to since I was ten.
Udev Rules for Dirtywave M8
A note to future me on getting the M8 working on Linux.
Flathub Brand Refresh
Look behind the Flathub rebrand.
GNOME 44 Wallpapers
Behind the scenes of GNOME 44's wallpaper set, mesh gradients and all.
Running Shell in Builder
Testing GNOME Shell changes without the usual build nightmare.
Pixel Inktober
Another October of quick pixel dailies, now posted on Mastodon.
Came Full Circle
All the pixel art app animations assembled into one video.
Even Mo' Pixels
Continuing the daily pixel art routine across GNOME Circle apps.
New Alert Sounds
Crafting GNOME 43 alert sounds on a Teensy running Dirtywave firmware.
GNOME 43 Wallpapers
A fresh redesign of the full GNOME wallpaper set for 43.
Berlin Mini GUADEC
The imperfect, perfectly Berlin-flavored GNOME hackfest at C-Base.
Flatpak Brand Refresh
A contemporary update for Flatpak's visual identity.
Ingenuity's One Year of Mars Flights
Celebrating a year of Martian flights with Blender overlays and desert footage.
Blender Eevee is Magic
Rendering Stream Deck button assets in Blender's realtime engine.
Less is More
One-hour constraint jams keeping weeklybeats alive.
Fugue Machine on the M8
A weeklybeats jam combining the Digitakt and M8 in a fugue-like sequence.
Droneman
My son's spectacular performance and my only IMDB credit.
One More Trip Around the Sun
A narrow-angle look back at 2021 through synths and pixels.
M8 — Drum and Base
Learning drum and bass on the tiny miracle that is the Dirtywave M8.
Pixel Sites
Building mini-sites for FOSS projects with plain CSS and pixel art.
Pixel Inktober
Completing a monthly pixel art challenge for the first time.