Philip Withnall

@pwithnall
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Software developer, fell runner, caver.

Interested in the outdoors, environment, software maintenance, and copious photos of stiles and industrial heritage.

Websitehttps://tecnocode.co.uk
Pronounshe/him
A twisted hawthorn on top of a rocky knoll, in the Machars of Galloway.
#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland

if you like Auroras and Bobby and want to help bring my design work to other #FOSS projects, I’m looking for sponsors. :)

https://mastodon.social/@hbons/116166139945148680

This week I did some more car sharing and blocked up some draughts in a building I help maintain, to reduce its heating bills.

#EnvironmentThisWeek

Building a GNOME app? If you follow the HIG and especially if you apply for inclusion in the GNOME Circle, we would love to help you with an icon.

Check out some metaphor explorations from the past two years: https://blog.jimmac.eu/posts/friday-sketches/

Apply here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/app-icon-requests/

#gnome #sketch #app #design #request

Friday Sketches (part 2) | Jakub Steiner

Continuing to share app icon design sketches on Mastodon every Friday.

Friday Sketches (part 2) | Jakub Steiner
@nekohayo Well that’s a bundle of joy.

"'These proposals would not only have a disastrous impact on the science of #astronomy, they would also hinder the right of everybody on Earth to enjoy the night sky. That is unacceptable.

"The stars above us are a valued part of human heritage – deploying more than one million exceptionally bright #satellites would utterly destroy this and permanently scar the natural landscape.'"

https://www.itv.com/news/2026-03-17/astronomers-alarmed-by-plans-to-use-space-mirrors-to-light-earth-at-night

#Space #SpaceX #ReflectOrbital #SunlightAsAService

You might remember my distress at not having been able to grab any tiny balancing sheep photos. Went out for a walk today and it wasn't perfect (the pathway is noticeably higher than the field which makes it tricky) BUT VICTORY IS MINE! 🐑 😁

I continue to stand by rubbish-but-real being better than polished-but-fake.

Behold my rubbish-but-real triptych.

#tinyBalancingSheep

Thanks to everyone who’s contributed to improving our app centre and updater!

Merge request contributions are always welcome, there are plenty of UI papercuts which you could help to fix — https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues?label_name%5B%5D=User%20interface 😁

Issues · GNOME / gnome-software · GitLab

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GitLab

GNOME 50 has been released! 🥳

Here’s a quick summary of the improvements which gnome-software 50 contains:

- Reduce CPU priority when running in the background
- Remember window size between restarts
- Improved error reporting in the repositories dialogue
- Improved notifications for trivial flatpak app updates
- Lots of UI papercuts fixed
- Improved question about deleting data when uninstalling an app
- More safety reporting for uncommon flatpak app permissions

#GNOME #GnomeSoftware

This (last) week I made some enquiries with my council about dark skies in planning policy.

#EnvironmentThisWeek