Free & #OpenSource contributor (#Linux + #GNOME + #GStreamer) since 2004. Now co-maintaining the most magical desktop productivity apps combo (@GettingThingsGNOME & GNOME Calendar) as their benevolent lean engineering manager + occasional User Interaction & UX designer.
Waging war on mediocrity & unsustainability in business.
Founder of @ideemarque + @atypica, and Managing Partner at @regento.
Ex-Collabora, ex-psy, ex-Shinra.
I don't roleplay but I wear a cloak. ❄️
#fedi22
| Personal website | https://fortintam.com |
| Company website | https://idmark.ca |
| Languages | 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🐍 (#Python) |
| Geographic natural habitat | #Montréal (#Montreal) #Québec #Canada |
Installed #Fedora 44 on a PC to replace a buggy Debian "stable", and got to use the new Anaconda UI (the one made with a web interface behind the scenes)…
Wow. For the first time in decades, the advanced partitioning tool lets me delete & create partitions without issues! It doesn't mis-parse sizes, it gives me hints (in sidebar) on which partitions it expects/needs, and it doesn't lag!
The installer was my no.1 issue in Fedora, and it finally works for my usecase 😌
Something that has been on my mind for nearly 30 years: why did the French translators for FF7 rename "Cloud" to "Clad", while "Claude" was _right there_ ?!
Claude couldn't have been more French even if they replaced the Buster Sword with a big baguette.
One thing I obsess a little bit over is the fact that it’s 2026, we pretend that Linux is a serious OS, but we‘re still losing your data on a regular basis.
Out of memory conditions (OOM) are one of our biggest pain points, so I just did a quick experiment with macOS to see how they are handling OOM.
I loaded about 200 memory heavy tabs in Firefox and kept a close look at memory usage.
(1/4)
Minutes ago, my dad saw me grinning by myself and asked what was so funny that I'd show that facial expression.
I explained to him that I had an idea today to extend https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/93 's proposed #UX to introduce a special kind of #DST "Easter egg" in #GNOMECalendar to extend March 31st to March 32nd, providing relief to Europeans for their loss of sleep that makes them more vulnerable to #AprilFools news shared on #AprilFoolsDay.
Dad stared blankly at me and said, "…I don't get it." 🤣
It's not only Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️⚧️ but also World Backup Day! Therefore, Pika Backup 0.8 is available as of today. After two years of work, this release not only brings many small improvements, but also a rework of the code base that dates back to 2018. This will greatly help to keep Pika Backup stable and maintainable for another eight years.
Learn more on https://apps.gnome.org/PikaBackup/ and help Pika Backup via a donation on https://opencollective.com/pika-backup or to me directly https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/projects/
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Today we celebrate the trans members of our community and stand with them against discrimination.
GNOME wouldn't be where it is without our trans contributors. Thank you for being here! 🏳️⚧️
#transgenderdayofvisibility #transrightsarehumanrights #TDOV
I've been using wired ethernet for 20+ years for all important computers, VoIP phones, IPTVs.
Regularly folks tell me, "The new gen #WiFi [insert nickname] solves stability & speed problems, no need for wires, it's not 2005 anymore!"… yet every few months I encounter another situation where WiFi inexplicably fails and I think about this article from 2017: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/802-eleventy-what-a-deep-dive-into-why-wi-fi-kind-of-sucks/
Today's incident: mom's laptop WiFi randomly disconnecting from OpenWRT. Screw that, I'll pull a new gigabit cable 😤
I have a lot of empathy for #GNOME users who struggle to figure out a way to do unattended graphical remote desktop to their own computers, as it silently refuses to work when the screen is locked or blanked.
There's an extension to work around that security limitation, but you have to know such a limitation exists to begin with.
Here I am suggesting an explanatory label in the GNOME Settings app to alleviate this for the foreseeable future: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/3716
Big news! Today we’re launching the GNOME Fellowship: funded positions for contributors to work on the GNOME project’s long-term sustainability. 🎉
We are starting with one 12-month fellowship; applications are open through April 20.
Find out more: https://fellowship.gnome.org/
I heartily recommend testing your apps with various accessibility settings enabled.
You can find so many odd issues with those. "Always Show Scrollbars", for example:
* I found a performance bug with vertical tabs in #Firefox that completely flew under the radar: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2016616#c14
* Noticed the awkward look of scrollbars in the middle of Meld: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/issues/956
* Discovered misalignment in GNOME Calendar's week view: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/621
Jonas
Sophie
GNOME
