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One more year, one more year-end donations round before reaching the next one. As every year, I highly encourage you to do the same. Please think about organizations that make a difference to you and software that you may use every day. Your contribution may make a difference to them in return. This year I went with: Signal because I still use it every day. In reality, I’ve promoted this donation…
Christmas Eve 2025. It’s late at night and I should really go to bed because Santa is coming tonight. I’m installing a new hard drive in my computer to replace my existing Fedora Linux drive. The new one is larger and faster, and I decide to start from scratch with a new Fedora 43 KDE Plasma Desktop Edition installation. After the system is installed (super-fast!) I copy data over from my old…
Vulkan 1.4.333, released on November 14th, includes VK_EXT_custom_resolve , an extension that is closely related to the work we have been doing at Igalia to help Valve release the Steam Frame . It’s an extension that allows you to use a custom fragment shader to specify how to resolve a multisample image into a single-sample image, typically so the latter can be presented on screen. CTS tests for…
A month ago I attended Vulkanised 2025 in Cambridge, UK, to present a talk about Device-Generated Commands in Vulkan. The event was organized by Khronos and took place in the Arm Cambridge office. The talk I presented was similar to the one from XDC 2024, but instead of being a lightning 5-minutes talk, I had 25-30 minutes to present and I could expand the contents to contain proper explanations…
Just in time before the year ends, I’ve gone ahead with my round of personal donations for 2024. I highly encourage you to do something similar and support the free and open source software and organizations that make a difference to you. This year, my personal list consisted of: Signal as every year, because I use it daily. Calibre eBook Management , which my wife uses a lot. The Gnome Project ,…