Julian Sparber

@jsparber
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Developer, tinkerer, hacker at heart
Websitehttps://juliansparber.com
Bloghttps://blogs.gnome.org/jsparber/
@tbernard @hbons @pojntfx @zeenix there is some custom CSS for the emoji avatars, to make the font smaller. Maybe it's custom CSS in the app that doesn't use the default font or size? 🤔
@mattiasb @ondrejkolin that's actually something @Valentin build and is a feature of btrfs, that allows to move a running root partition to disk.

Lots of fun stuff at Boiling The Ocean 10 today, including

- Fairphone 5 audio hacking
- Reflection newcomer session
- Fixed document sorting by editing date in Reflection
- Fixed multi-window zooming bug in Reflection
- Reflection on macOS
- GNOME Maps UX
- Bazaar app version pinning UX
- GNOME 50 celebration
- Talk: "Readability, Legibility, Usability" by @frankrausch
- and more!

#gnome #linuxmobile #postmarketos #gtk #localfirst #berlin

Reflection runs pretty well now on macOS, thanks to @zeenix bringing a Mac to #BoilingTheOcean yesterday 👀

The weird part is that hopefully for GNOME 50 nobody notices any change.

https://teams.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/Design/icon-development-kit/

#gnome #gradualphasein

For hackathon movie night, we followed the theme of movies with UI names in them again. Previously: "For the Plasma" (2014) and "The Gnome-Mobile" (1967).

This time:
"COSMIC Journey" (1936 !!!)

Reviews coming in below!

@tbernard and @adz talking about @modal, p2panda and Reflection at FOSDEM.

We are still at #FOSDEM !

If you are considering becoming a recurring donor, now it is your time!

Come to our stand in K level 2 and you get this t-shirt!!

#GNOME #FriendsofGNOME

A very nice first day at FOSDEM. I spent time at the @matrix booth and met overwhelmingly enthusiastic people, then left it to our fabulous team of volunteers.

I’ve met Allan and @jsparber at the @gnome booth, got one of those fabulous systemd T-shirts, said hi to the @postmarketOS gang, got a T-shirt and brainstormed with @pabloyoyoista, got to thank Proxmox and OpenTofu for the great tools they provide.

#FOSDEM is where internet friends materialize.

Hello FOSDEM! The Modal team is in Brussels in full force this week.

Many of us are attending the GNOME OS hackfest, and @adz and @tbernard have a talk in the Local First room on Sunday: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/MCVBNK-p2panda-modal-reflection

Let us know if you want to meet up :)

#gnome #localfirst #fosdem #reflection

FOSDEM 2026 - Towards a Local-First Linux Desktop with Modal, Reflection and p2panda