My ramdon thoughts about Free Software, GNOME, and life in general.
In Chapter 1 I gave the context for this project and in Chapter 2 I showed the bare minimum: an ELF that Open Firmware loads, a firmware service call, and an infinite loop. That was July 2024. Since then, the project has gone from that infinite loop to a bootloader that actually boots Linux kernels. This post covers the journey. The filesystem problem The Boot Loader Specification expects BLS…
In a previous post I gave the context for my pet project ieee1275-rs, it is a framework to build bootable ELF payloads on Open Firmware (IEEE 1275). OF is a standard developed by Sun for SPARC and aimed to provide a standardized firmware interface that was rich and nice to work with, it was later … Continue reading Booting with Rust: Chapter 2 →
I have been doing random coding experiments with my spare time that I never got to publicize much outside of my inner circles. I thought I would undust my blog a bit to talk about what I did in case it is useful for others. For some background, I used to manage the bootloader team … Continue reading Booting with Rust: Chapter 1 →
It has been a while since my last post, so I figured I just picked up a topic that has been around my mind lately. After I ported the RSVG Pixbuf Loader to Rust (although I gave up the meson-fu to Federico and Bilal) I decided that maybe I should give a try at porting … Continue reading Dilemma’s in Rust Land: porting a GNOME library to Rust →
I’ve been toying around with Rust during Easter. It has been a while since I last had a go at it for UEFI binaries. Turns out that the uefi-rs crate has gotten tons of love in terms of usability, stability and built-in protocol interfaces. Now, no_std is useful for a myriad of use cases like … Continue reading Writing a #[no_std] compatible crate in Rust →
Changes are risky, taking on a new role on a new company with people you never worked before, growing a whole org from scratch is hard work that comes with a lot of uncertainties. When I decided that I wanted to try something new and join Amazon to work on the new Kindle site in … Continue reading Streaming your desktop →
Everybody knows that I have always been a firm believer in Gtk+’s potential to be a great cross platform toolkit beyond Linux. GIMP and Inkscape, as an example, are loyal users that ship builds for those platforms. The main challenge is the short amount of maintainers running, testing and improving those platforms. Gtk+ has a … Continue reading GTK: OSX a11y support →
Since the beginning of December I started working for Amazon in Madrid to run the team responsible for the Kindle experience on PC and the web. This is a bit of a career shift for me, for a while I’ve been wondering how would it be like to deliver a user experience of a successful … Continue reading Chapter #Next: Kindle →
This is an extract of an email I just sent internally at Red Hat that I wanted to share with the wider GNOME and Freedesktop community. After 6+ wonderful years at Red Hat, I’ve decided to hang the fedora to go and try new things. For a while I’ve been craving for a new challenge … Continue reading Hanging the Red Hat →
I have recently created a C API for a library dealing with Boot Loader Spec files as well as the GRUB environment file. In the process I have learnt a few things that, coming from a C background, were not obvious to me at all. Box to control unsafe ownership Say we have this simple … Continue reading Lessons when creating a C API from Rust →