mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06FLOSS project necromancer.
Geek, husband, lover, software developer, Londoner. Not necessarily in that order.
he/him
Proud #GTK and #GNOME dev; member of the GNOME Foundation.
"One of the people responsible for the failure of the Linux desktop", according to a random YouTube user.
Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad.
Seth was the leader of the GNOME Usability project, which led to the creation of the human interface guidelines; the words might have changed over 25 years, but he's one of the people that made the Linux desktop, and we're still walking in his footsteps.
"I don't understand why people in this political and ethical movement related to software development and consumption have strong opinions about the politics and ethics of a bunch of software development tools" is an incredibly nuclear level take that boggles the mind
As much as I enjoy seeing a pompous startup founder getting owned by their own stupidity, the bit that makes me repeatedly slam my head on my keyboard is:
"After the deletion, I asked the agent why it did it."
The stochastic parrot doesn't know *why*, nor it will answer *why* it did stuff: you just asked an LLM to summarise what it did, and inject some word salad to fill out the steps.
These people are self-deluded fools playing russian roulette with a fully loaded machine gun.
Inside me there are two memes. One is about music players for GNOME. The other one is about music players for GNOME.
At the tender age of 45 I may have finally come to accept that my gut is a good judge of character
I have been working on this project at @igalia@floss.social for about a year, alongside @tchx84@mstdn.io
https://www.igalia.com/2026/03/09/Introducing-Moonforge-A-Yocto-Based-Linux-OS.html
There's more to come, so stay tuned
Happy to report that the new Ghost in the Shell does not disappoint: it adapts the manga in a beautiful way.
Embloggeration happened: in which I talk a bit about what I've been doing at Igalia in 2025
https://www.bassi.io/articles/2026/03/17/lets-talk-about-moonforge/
Nothing makes a case for closed source development practices like free and open source software users
Today:
Astronauts are like me fr fr
If your FLOSS project self-hosts its issue tracker, may I recommend implementing a rule that redirects any referral coming from reddit to: https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/fart-with-extra-reverb-63068/
In honour of Patrick Muldoon's passing, I put "Starship Troopers" on this evening. It's still amazing how *unsubtle* the movie is, and that's even before you see Neil Patrick Harris in a SS uniform…
