Silicon Island

In Chapter 1 I gave the context for this project and in Chapter 2 I showed the bare minimum: an ELF that Open Firmware loads, a firmware service call, and an infinite loop.

In a previous post I gave the context for my pet project ieee1275-rs, it is a framework to build bootable ELF payloads on Open Firmware (IEEE 1275).

I have been doing random coding experiments with my spare time that I never got to publicize much outside of my inner circles.

It has been a while since my last post, so I figured I just picked up a topic that has been around my mind lately.

I’ve been toying around with Rust during Easter.

Changes are risky, taking on a new role on a new company with people you never worked before, growing a whole org from scratch is hard work that comes with a lot of uncertainties.

Everybody knows that I have always been a firm believer in Gtk+’s potential to be a great cross platform toolkit beyond Linux.

Since the beginning of December I started working for Amazon in Madrid to run the team responsible for the Kindle experience on PC and the web.

This is an extract of an email I just sent internally at Red Hat that I wanted to share with the wider GNOME and Freedesktop community.

I have recently created a C API for a library dealing with Boot Loader Spec files as well as the GRUB environment file.