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Sebastian Wick: Improving the Flatpak Graphics Drivers Situation

https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/flatpak-graphics-drivers/

Published: January 5, 2026 23:30

Graphics drivers in Flatpak have been a bit of a pain point. The drivers have to be built against the runtime to work in the runtime. This usually isn’t much of an issue but it breaks down in two cases: If the driver depends on a specific kernel version…

Andy Wingo: pre-tenuring in v8

https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/01/05/pre-tenuring-in-v8

Published: January 5, 2026 15:38

Hey hey happy new year, friends! Today I was going over some V8 code that touched pre-tenuring: allocating objects directly in the old space instead of the nursery. I knew the theory here but I had never looked into the mechanism. Today’s post is a…

Jussi Pakkanen: Converting Chapterizer from Cairo + Pango to CapyPDF

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/01/converting-chapterizer-from-cairo-pango.html

Published: January 4, 2026 20:56

Chapterizer (not a great name, I know) is a tool I wrote to generate books. Originally used Cairo and Pango to generate PDF files. It works and was fairly easy to get started but has its own set of downsides:Cairo always produces RGB PDFs, which are not…

Jussi Pakkanen: New year, new Pystd epoch, or evolving an API without breaking it

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-year-new-pystd-epoch-or-evolving.html

Published: January 2, 2026 11:00

One of the core design points of Pystd has been that it maintains perfect API and ABI stability while also making it possible to improve the code in arbitrary ways. To see how that can be achieved, let's look at what creating a new "year epoch" looks like.…

Lennart Poettering: Mastodon Stories for systemd v259

https://0pointer.net/blog/mastodon-stories-for-systemd-v259.html

Published: December 31, 2025 00:00

On Dec 17 we released systemd v259 into the wild. In the weeks leading up to that release (and since then) I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release, under the #systemd259 hash tag. In case you aren't…

Sam Thursfield: Musical update

https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/musical-update/

Published: December 27, 2025 20:15

Like many software engineers, I sometimes see my career as 20 years of failing to become a professional musician. Although its true that in the software industry we get to stay in better hotels than most independent musicians can afford. And we rarely have…

Sophie Herold: GNOME in 2025: Some Numbers

https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2025/12/27/gnome-in-2025-some-numbers/

Published: December 27, 2025 13:10

As some of you know, I like aggregating data. So here are some random numbers about GNOME in 2025. This post is not about making any point with the numbers I’m sharing. It’s just for fun. So, what is GNOME? In total, 6 692 516 lines of code. Of that, 1 611…

Asman Malika: Everybody Struggles

https://blogs.gnome.org/malika/2025/12/22/165/

Published: December 22, 2025 20:48

There’s a quiet assumption that once you’re accepted into a program, an internship, or a new opportunity, things are supposed to click. That confidence should come automatically. That the struggle somehow ends at the door. It doesn’t. Lately, my struggle…

Jussi Pakkanen: An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/12/an-uncomfortable-but-necessary.html

Published: December 22, 2025 15:58

Note: this post represents my personal opinions as a Debian maintainer of a single package (Meson). It is not my intention to throw anyone involved in the service under a bus, but some things about it are not good and need to be spoken aloud (in my opinion…

Marcus Lundblad: Xmas & New Year's Maps

https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/12/xmas-new-years-maps.html

Published: December 21, 2025 22:56

It's that time of year again in (Norther Hemisphere) winter when year's drawing to an end. Which means it's time for the traditional Christmas Maps blogpost. Sometimes you hear claims about Santa Claus living at the North Pole (though in Rovaniemi,…