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Marks and counters in Sysprof
Last year the Webkit project started to integrate its tracing routines with Sysprof. Since then, the feedback I’ve received about it is that it was a pretty big improvement in the development of the engine! Yay. People started using Sysprof to have insights about the internal states of Webkit, gather data on how long different…
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GUADEC 2025
I’m back from GUADEC 2025. I’m still super tired, but I wanted to write down my thoughts before they vanish into the eternal void. First let me start with a massive thank you for everyone that helped organize the event. It looked extremely well rounded, the kind of well rounded that can only be explained…
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In celebration of accessibility
Accessibility in the free and open source world is somewhat of a sensitive topic. Given the principles of free software, one would think it would be the best possible place to advocate for accessibility. After all, there’s a collection of ideologically motivated individuals trying to craft desktops to themselves and other fellow humans. And yet,…
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Boatswain 5.0
After more than an year after, Boatswain 5.0 is finally out. It took me a long time to push it to the finish line, but I’m relatively happy with how it turned out, and it brings some nice features. Let’s take a quick look at what’s new in this release! New Devices Boatswain 5.0 comes…
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A Sysprof enhancement
I’ve blogged in the past about how WebKit on Linux integrates with Sysprof, and provides a number of marks on various metrics. At the time that was a pretty big leap in WebKit development since it gave use a number of new insights, and enabled various performance optimizations to land. But over time we started…
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Flatpak 1.16 is out!
Last week I published the Flatpak 1.16.0 release This marks the beginning of the 1.16 stable series. This release comes after more than two years since Flatpak 1.14, so it’s pretty packed with new features, bug fixes, and improvements. Let’s have a look at some of the highlights! USB & Input Devices Two new features…