Category: Accomplishments
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MyPaint + Wacom screen tablet + GNOME3 = ♥
A little-known fact about me is that I can draw better than your average cat. It is a hobby of mine that became dormant with my pretty challenging professional and Free Software activities in the past few years. Drawing is hard, let’s go hacking One of the things that previously threw me off from drawing…
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Se libérer de Bell et Vidéotron: passez Go et réclamez 1000$ par année
Ceci est un guide, basé sur mon expérience, pour vous libérer de l’hégémonie de fournisseurs tels que Bell et Vidéotron tout en augmentant votre connaissance de la technologie. Notons que ce guide est hautement contextuel à la quasi absence de compétition que l’on retrouve au Québec. Les Français, eux, ont Free (entre autres). Petite parenthèse…
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Pitivi 0.93 released
Last week, a flash snowstorm brought me around 2ft of snow overnight. I thought, “If I’m going to clear that much snow, might as well have some fun and make a timelapse out of it”, and so I did. While watching it, I realized, “Hmm… that’s an interesting metaphor for the huge amount of preparatory…
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Pitivi status update for Q1 2014, fundraiser launch
Since my previous technical update in January, I haven’t had time to touch Pitivi’s code. Thankfully though, Alexandru Băluț has been filling the gap with a ton of refactoring work: around 150 commits! That took a fair amount of time to review and merge, believe me. Besides code cleanup, he also finished the port of the…
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Scratching some Media Library itches
Besides catching a cold and shovelling snow, this holiday season I spent some time scratching itches in Pitivi. For starters, thumbnails generation: if you’ve been using the new Pitivi, you certainly ran into this: As you can see, thumbnails were not necessarily being shown for all clips. That was not the result of a buggy…
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Pitivi 0.92 and the wandering opensourcerer
The past few weeks have been pretty crazy. At the last minute, I ended up going to the GStreamer Conference in Edinburgh, thanks to the GStreamer project sponsoring my attendance. As always, it was a fantastic event and it was great to meet up with old friends and see great topics being discussed. I was pretty…
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Pitivi 0.91 "Charming Defects"
And so it has come to this. A few days ago, we stealthily published the tarball of the first Pitivi video editor release based on the GES engine. Incredible but true! 0.91 is finally out! In case you were living under a rock for the past two years, this release is the result of a…
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DIY sound suppressor for the Unicomp / model M keyboard
When you spend the vast majority of your spare time working on open-source software like Pitivi, sometimes you feel like hacking on hardware made of dead trees for a change. Dead trees have very few bugs unless you let them sit on the ground for extended amounts of time. As I was quite unsatisfied with…
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GStreamer Hackfest 2013: Moving Images
I’m back from this year’s GStreamer hackfest, which was fantastic as usual — an intersection of great minds, big challenges, flaky Wi-Fi and good food. Christian already did a generic summary, so I’ll be narrating from the GNonLin/GES/PiTiVi perspective. See the end of this blog post for a nice video retrospective. Edward provided an initial…
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PiTiVi status update for Q1 2013
Time for a little report on recent improvements in Pitivi. Nothing earth-shattering to make you drool with envy; just a lot of fixes, cleanup and improvements to small details. Next week, we will be in Milan for the GStreamer hackfest, so I’ll make sure to give you a nice report on what we managed to…