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  • Profiling & optimizing GNOME Software

    Profiling & optimizing GNOME Software

    Over the past few months, the Endless OS Foundation has been putting focus on improving GNOME Software’s reliability and performance. Endless OS is an OSTree-based immutable OS, and applications are entirely distributed as Flatpaks. GNOME Software is the frontend to that, and since our target userbase is definitely not going to use a terminal, we…


  • Maintainership of GNOME Settings

    Maintainership of GNOME Settings

    This article has been posted on GNOME’s Discourse. Please use this Discourse thread to discuss the subject. GNOME Settings is one of the largest modules of the GNOME desktop. It sits comfortable as one of the bigger repositories out there. Not only that, but feature-wise, Settings is a pretty big hub of the desktop, connecting…


  • the burial of the filechooser meme

    the burial of the filechooser meme


  • Crowdfunding Elgato Key Lights

    Crowdfunding Elgato Key Lights

    Since I created Boatswain, earlier this year, a lot has happened. Recently it was accepted as part of the GNOME Circle! As the app gets more popular, people are asking for more useful features that I cannot implement without having access to the actual hardware they depend on. Specifically, I’ve received multiple requests to integrate…


  • Boatswain 0.2.2 is out!

    Boatswain 0.2.2 is out!

    Last week, I’ve rolled out the 0.2.1 release of Boatswain, the Elgato Stream Deck application for Linux. After the massive push to get the initial releases out, the development pace naturally slowed down, but I managed to pick up some new fancy features for this release. The most visible new feature is dragging button actions…


  • the death of the meme

    the death of the meme