Author: Jeff
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Help us make GNOME Calendar rock-solid by expanding the test suite!
GNOME Calendar 45 will be a groundbreaking release in terms of UX (more on that later?), performance, and to some extent, reliability (we’ve at least solved two complex crashers recently, including a submarine Cthulhu crasher heisenbug and its offspring)… and yet, I think this might be “just the beginning” of a new era. And a…
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Why I picked the biggest furry elephant as my microblogging platform (and refuse to self-host a Mastodon server)
This officially announces my migration from Twitter to Mastodon, providing some details on where to find me and what contents to expect from my account on that platform. It also goes into some observations on Mastodon’s societal bubble and the (un)sustainability of most server instances.
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Please help test (and fix) GTG’s GTK 4 port
We need to determine when it would be “safe” to merge our core rewrite & GTK 4 port to GTG’s main code repository. This is how you can help
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The post-lockdown work rave, abuse, and shortened fuses
This article is a mix of personal stories, social & interpersonal psychology, and technology (with some drive-by remarks about Free & Open Source software). I originally drafted this article in the fall of 2021 and winter of 2022, but I needed more time to rewrite it a fourth time (because why not). So, while this…
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Unsettled by Unison’s Fadeaway from Fedora
A story illustrating how fragile user workflows can be, and how some seemingly inconsequential decisions at the distro level can have disastrous consequences on the ability of individuals to continue running your FLOSS platform.
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Please adapt Mozilla’s code so that PDF readers on Linux can handle XFA forms!
Mozilla’s PDFjs landed support for XFA PDF forms in 2021. This is how we can benefit from this in the land of desktop Linux.
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Getting Things GNOME 0.6 released
Yes, ladies, gentlemen, and seemingly-dead plants, it’s happening: after over 10 months of incremental work from the community, we are now releasing version 0.6 of our favorite personal productivity app, Getting Things GNOME. This release comes with some new features, lots of code improvements, many bugfixes and UX refinements (I am told that the “Better…
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Year MMXXI in 8 minutes
Near the end of 2020, I put a lot of thought into reevaluating my business’ value proposition, strategy, and processes. It’s a good thing I did that back then, because 2021 was quite different from 2020; I had much less time to “deepthink”, and I spent a majority of 2021 on an intense work treadmill,…
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How long does it take to create a website? (and why your FLOSS project doesn’t need one)
A case study on how long it takes to create a fairly simple, high-quality website
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GTG 0.6 release candidate
Today we are publishing a “release candidate” version of Getting Things GNOME 0.6. You can either try it out directly from the git master version (by running launch.sh; see the general instructions), or from the testing package available on Flathub’s “beta” repository, separately from the standard stable flathub/flatpak release you may already be running. To…