The Open Sourcerer

Author: Jeff

  • Staring into the Axis' Abyss: the Railgun map

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    This blog post will not be picked up by the usual news sites. News sites don’t care about positive things, it is much more interesting to talk about impending doom. Don’t get me wrong, it is quite healthy and necessary to talk about these things, but it is also an opportunity for haters to come…

  • What the duck?!

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    During the mini PiTiVi hackfest a Coruña, René and I fought valiantly to get our beloved video editor working through GObject introspection. It was much to my delight that Vivia Nikolaidou kindly lent me her beloved debugging duck (much better than debugging symbols!) to facilitate our efforts. She let it sit by my Thinkpad and…

  • State of the Onion

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    You haven’t truly lived until you have seen nekohayo present at GUADEC. Still, it should be safer than the GNOME State of the Union talk.

  • La Chine de 2012

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    Suite à GNOME.asia à Hong Kong, une brève visite à Shenzhen et quelques emmerdes de visas plus tard, je suis allé rejoindre deux comparses en Chine continentale à Guangzhou, avant de continuer notre périple dans diverses villes du sud/est de la Chine. Mon top photos se trouve ici. Le périple Guangzhou: le canton. La ville…

  • Back from Hong Kong

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    It’s too bad that the GNOME Asia summit in HK was so short and that I had to leave early on the last day of the conference. I wish I had more time to interact with the local community and to discuss with the design team some of the (anti)patterns that matter/appeal to me. I’d like…

  • La photo d'identité démocratisée grâce à Wilber

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    Dans le cadre d’un formulaire de routine, j’ai dû fournir une photo d’identité «style passeport». Or, j’en ai marre de me faire arnaquer, de payer cher pour une photo qui sera inévitablement moche. Les photos prises «par un professionnel» n’ont rien de professionnelles lorsque Passeport Canada accepte les photos prises par les préposés de pharmacies!…

  • Break the kettles and sink the boats

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    This is it.  The “ges” branch of Pitivi has been merged to “master”. The changes that have been merged are quite significant: over four hundred commits, 175 files changed, 13943 insertions and 30341 deletions (net result: more than 16 thousand lines of code removed while at the same time adding features and solving longstanding bugs). While “master” is…

  • Quart de siècle

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    Today, I am turning 25 years old. Holy carp. A quarter of a century old. At this rate, how the heck can I solve the massive amount of bugs remaining in GNOME and GStreamer in only a hundred years?

  • Thumbnails are back

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    …it’s back. And it will not stop until it has accomplished its mission. This week, Daniel Thul fixed and reactivated the clip thumbnailing code for Pitivi’s timeline. But he didn’t just stop there. No sir. He implemented caching too, and that made my week. We don’t just process thumbnails on-demand anymore, we now save them to…

  • La pression sociale

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    Voici quelques pensées générales sur la responsabilité, le déterminisme et sur la société dans laquelle nous vivons. Je vais à contre-courant sur une poignée de choses dans la vie: Je refuse d’utiliser Facebook pour gérer mes relations avec mes véritables amis (en d’autres termes, les « relations privées »), pour les raisons énumérées précédemment. À la…