Author: Georges Stavracas
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What’s New in Calendar 51: Prologue
It’s been a long time since I last posted anything here, huh. Well, a few hours ago I was preparing the release notes for the next release of GNOME Calendar. It is yet to be reviewed, but this is how it reads at the time I write this blog post: This release of Calendar has…
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Marks and counters in Sysprof
Last year the Webkit project started to integrate its tracing routines with Sysprof. Since then, the feedback I’ve received about it is that it was a pretty big improvement in the development of the engine! Yay. People started using Sysprof to have insights about the internal states of Webkit, gather data on how long different…
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GUADEC 2025
I’m back from GUADEC 2025. I’m still super tired, but I wanted to write down my thoughts before they vanish into the eternal void. First let me start with a massive thank you for everyone that helped organize the event. It looked extremely well rounded, the kind of well rounded that can only be explained…
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In celebration of accessibility
Accessibility in the free and open source world is somewhat of a sensitive topic. Given the principles of free software, one would think it would be the best possible place to advocate for accessibility. After all, there’s a collection of ideologically motivated individuals trying to craft desktops to themselves and other fellow humans. And yet,…
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Boatswain 5.0
After more than an year after, Boatswain 5.0 is finally out. It took me a long time to push it to the finish line, but I’m relatively happy with how it turned out, and it brings some nice features. Let’s take a quick look at what’s new in this release! New Devices Boatswain 5.0 comes…
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A Sysprof enhancement
I’ve blogged in the past about how WebKit on Linux integrates with Sysprof, and provides a number of marks on various metrics. At the time that was a pretty big leap in WebKit development since it gave use a number of new insights, and enabled various performance optimizations to land. But over time we started…