Giving up on GNOME To Do

Seven years ago, back when I was a university student living with my parents and with lots of free time in my hands, I created GNOME To Do to help me organize my Google Summer of Code tasks. It was a fantastic time of my life, and I had the privilege of having time to … Continue reading Giving up on GNOME To Do →

Switching to PipeWire

I just realized that, once again, I've spent half of a year without publishing. Oh no! To me, the frequency of blogging is an indicator of the work/life balance - if I have time to blog, that's good and healthy. The past months have indeed been intense, and in addition to that, I've been burning … Continue reading Switching to PipeWire →

Screencasting with OBS Studio on Wayland

For the past few months, I've been doing live coding sessions on YouTube showing how GNOME development goes. Usually it's a pair of sessions per week, one in Brazilian Portuguese so that my beloved community can enjoy GNOME in their native language; and one in English, to give other people at least a chance to … Continue reading Screencasting with OBS Studio on Wayland →

Sprint 6: new Calendar icon, Flatpak portals in To Do, Privacy panel

The Sprint series comes out every 3 weeks or so. Focus will be on the apps I maintain (Calendar, To Do, Settings, and Mutter), but it may also include other applications that I contribute to. This report is one Sprint late, since last Sprint was dominated by the GNOME Shell Hackfest. More on that below. Calendar Calendar … Continue reading Sprint 6: new Calendar icon, Flatpak portals in To Do, Privacy panel →

GNOME Shell Hackfest 2019

This week, I have attended the GNOME Shell Hackfest 2019 held in Leidschendam, The Netherlands. It was a fantastic event, in a fantastic city! The list of attendees was composed of key members of the community, so we managed to get a lot done -- a high amount of achievements for only three days of … Continue reading GNOME Shell Hackfest 2019 →

New Background panel, Calendar search engine, GTK4 shortcut engine (Sprint 1)

This is a new series, coming out every 3 weeks or so, with various updates. My focus will be on the apps I maintain (Calendar, To Do, and Settings), but in the future it may also include other applications that I contribute to. GNOME Settings: Redesigned Background panel So let's start with one of the … Continue reading New Background panel, Calendar search engine, GTK4 shortcut engine (Sprint 1) →

Restricting users

Using a computer is mostly about executing apps, reading, writing and doing. But it can also be about not doing. Confusing? Bear with me. Imagine for a second that you are in an elementary school. The leadership is optimistic on exposing students to technology. They have set up big rooms with rows and rows of … Continue reading Restricting users →

On Being a Free Software Maintainer

Year is 2013. I learn about a new, alpha-quality project called "GNOME Calendar." Intriguing. I like calendars. "Cool, I'll track that," said my younger self. Heavy development was happening at the ui-rework branch. Every day, a few new commits. Pull, build, test. Except one day, no new commits. Nor the next day. Or week. Or month. Or … Continue reading On Being a Free Software Maintainer →

Sorry for the silence

It's been more than 6 months that I do not write in this space. Honestly, that's the longest period of silence I've ever had. There are various factors that, combined, ended up causing this period of seclusion. Learning about new, massive projects (GNOME Shell, Mutter and GNOME Settings) is one of them. Moving to a … Continue reading Sorry for the silence →

3.28 Release Party

Last Saturday we celebrated the release of GNOME 3.28. It was a bit late, but happened nonetheless! And even cooler than that: this was not the only Release Party around! Isaac Ferreira also organized a successful one in Recife, Pernambuco! GNOME is getting some traction in Brazil again - stay tuned 😉