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Andrew Branson

@abranson@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06
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79 Followers
28 Following
19 Posts
Joined September 26, 2023
Location:
Thoiry 01710, France
Reddit:
https://reddit.com/u/sailing-by
GitHub:
https://github.com/abranson
last.fm:
https://www.last.fm/user/billranton
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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

The #sailfishos #mastodon account integration plugin is now merged to devel and will be included in SailfishOS 5.2, maybe even installed by default. Mastodon out of the box!

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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

Merging new version of #sailfishos Browser on #firefox ESR115 right now!

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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago

Sailfish OS 5.1 early access released, finally with Bluetooth support for Android Apps! Watch your disk space before upgrading though.

https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/release-notes-pispala-5-1-0-7-early-access/29751

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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

The source for my Mastodon account integration plugin for #sailfishos is now open on GitHub: https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfish-account-mastodon

Announcement here:
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/mastodon-account-integration-source-now-available-on-github/29216

GitHub

GitHub - sailfishos/sailfish-account-mastodon: Sailfish Account Mastodon

Sailfish Account Mastodon. Contribute to sailfishos/sailfish-account-mastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago

Vibe coding is making it possible for people with very little experience to build apps. QML on #sailfishos is simple enough to support that, but the cross-platform packaging side with the SDK is still pretty tricky.

So I put this together:
https://github.com/abranson/build-sailfishos-skill

Install into the Codex home of your IDE, and it will know how to build and package your apps using Coderus' brilliant dockerized SDK. Hopefully it lowers the barrier a bit and helps more people turn their ideas into real apps.

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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 4mo ago
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@kokorins@fosstodon.org Sure, the Sailfish Browser uses Gecko as its web engine because too many browsers use Chromium. It's a descendent of the Maemo browser, back from when Gecko had Qt support built-in. That has since been removed upstream, so Sailfish OS has been maintaining that and embedlite, which is quite a lot of work so over the years it's fallen behind a bit. @flypig@mastodon.social did the last bump to ESR91, and this one means we're sort-of on a still supported Gecko, which hasn't happened for a few years.
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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

Everyone seems to be getting their new #pebble except me. So Rockpool for #sailfishos is going to have to wait until I do, especially as the official app has stopped even trying to use BLE with the og watches. I guess the more stable they get that, the less work I have to do to replicate it on a proper operating system.

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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago

Updated my #sailfishos port of the #FOSSASIA Badge Magic app to support sending multiple badges. You can either let them play in a slideshow, or cycle through them with the second button on the badge. Rudimentary animation!

https://openrepos.net/content/abranson/badge-magic

It's harbour compliant so hopefully it'll be in the Jolla store at some point.

If you don't have one of their nifty badges, they usually sell them here, though it looks like there are SSL issues over there right now: https://fossasia.com/

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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@veskuh@mstdn.social
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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@frankps@mastodon.babb.no I think that'll happen when it gets included in the official repos, through the community translation service.
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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@juanejot @pocketvj The community ports are usually the place to look for ports based on LineageOS. I found this: https://xdaforums.com/t/sailfishos.4731404/ Those guys usually do pretty solid ports for Sailfish, and maintain them for a long time.
xdaforums.com
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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@nobodyinperson @juanejot @rubdos That stuff might possibly need the same Wayland extensions that just got merged into Lipstick and should be in the next release: https://github.com/sailfishos/lipstick/pull/69 That's been needed for a long time. To run GTK apps like native Firefox...
GitHub

Implement xdg-shell interface (second version) by n2klb · Pull Request #69 · sailfishos/lipstick

Changes compared to #68: do not automatically change window size, let the QML side do that when needed remove special handling of scale property, add new bufferScale property instead treat topleve...

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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@juanejot Yeah it can be frustrating waiting for email info from Jolla, but remember that they're a small company who are having to ramp up to this unexpected level of interest very quickly. The community (Forum, IRC, Matrix or Telegram) is probably the best place to ask any questions you have. But: It uses RPM packaging. Get the SDK and emulator if you want to check out the OS. It has a really good built-in Nextcloud integration.
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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@rubdos@mastodon.social @doubleubee@mastodon.social @dylanvanassche@fosstodon.org Might be a new Rockpool brewing right now...
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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@ilpianista sure, but that's a couple of extra steps away from it being searchable on github.
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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@ilpianista I do agree, though they all have their place. I can't put Quickddit on Chum because it needs to be built with a secret (API key), and if it still broke the harbour rules I could only put it on Openrepos. I thought community ports got Harbour access though? Chum exists for apps that can't abide by all the restrictions of the harbour.
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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@veskuh@mstdn.social Does it have a yolo mode where it just runs the command straight away? Then you have an ask shell!
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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 2w ago
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@troed@swecyb.com Sounds like your radios are unusually broken. Was it always like that?
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Andrew Branson @abranson@mastodon.social
· 7mo ago
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@gay_garstly@troet.cafe @jbz@indieweb.social I wouldn't be very happy if the engine compartment of my car was locked so I couldn't get in, so I don't want my mobile forbidding me from having root access. It's mine.
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