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The future of GNOME Music
GNOME Music is an app that I particularly fell in love. Not because it worked perfectly (it didn’t, at all), nor because it’s fast to the last bit (it isn’t, at all), neither because it’s written in a programming language that I love (i.e. C. And no, it isn’t). So why the hell did I…
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Core Apps Hackfest afterthoughts
During last weekend, I was very happy to attend the Core Apps Hackfest in Berlin. This is effectively the first hackfest I’ve ever been! Thanks Carlos for organizing that, thanks Kinvolk folks for hosting the event, and Collabora for sponsoring the dinner. This event was a great chance to meet the maintainers in person and…
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I’m going to the Core Apps Hackfest
In this exact moment, I’m packing up my stuff to attend the Core Apps Hackfest organized by Carlos Soriano and kindly hosted by Kinvolk. It’ll happen in Berlin, German. I have mixed feelings about this trip. The Good: I’m super excited to see old friends again. Do you guys remember Carlos was my GSoC mentor?…
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About internet comments and agressive communication
These days, an online magazine I follow wrote about a topic I love researching. I saw some fallacious, poisonous comments and inadvertedly tried to reason with the individual that wrote those things. Worst thing I could possibly have done. Of course it didn’t work out. Of course the individual tried to use every single mean…
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New features in GNOME To Do
It’s been a while, folks. Some of you might have noticed that GNOME To Do wasn’t released with GNOME 3.22. There is a reason for that: I didn’t have enough time to add new features, or fix any bugs. But that changed, and in fact big things happened. Lets check it out. More extensible than…
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GNOME release party in São Paulo, Brazil – a humble huge success
Today, we had the first GNOME release party I’ve ever attended. All thanks to the organizing efforts of Jonh Wendell – really, we owe you one! While this release party was small, I was surprised how well the conversation flowed. I thought that 1 hour would be enough, but I was plain wrong! Stayed for…