Even a Stopped Clock

In 1993, I stood at the top of the World Trade Center feeling like being on top of everything.

I couldn't remember something for weeks.

The Flatpak website has been running on Middleman for years and time hasn't been kind.

One of the great annual trips we do with a bunch of friends is a train trip to Jakuszyce, a tiny stop in neighbouring Poland, and ride along the contour line through one of the most beautiful places in the Jizera Mountains.

Terry Godier wrote a beautiful essay "The Boring Internet".

Not the best film ever, but in today's Hollywood landscape it's a rare breath of fresh air.

I'm a sucker for pixel art and very constrained music grooveboxes.

A few years back I did a quick exploration of what GNOME app icons might look like in an alternate universe where we kept on using VGA displays.

Back in 2019, we undertook a radical overhaul of how GNOME app icons work.

After successfully moving this blog to Zola, doubts got suppressed and I couldn't resist porting the GNOME Release Notes too.

I've finally gotten around to porting this blog over to Zola.

Last year we went to Japan to finally visit friends after two decades of planning to.

Two years have passed since I last shared my Friday app icon sketches, but the sketching itself hasn't stopped.

GNOME 50 just got released!

One of the new additions to the GNOME 49 wallpaper set is Dithered Sun by Tobias.

Hey Kids!

The M8 has extensive USB audio and MIDI capabilities, but it cannot be a USB MIDI host.

GNOME 49 brought another round of changes to the default wallpaper set — some new additions, and a few removals too.

I savored every episode, knowing this was going to be one of those rare shows, like Severance season one, that you only get to experience for the first time once.

I'm not a professional web designer.

With GNOME 47 out, it’s time for my bi-annual wallpaper deep dive.

A couple of weeks ago, I went to see Alien: Romulus.

It’s been a while since I’ve annoyed you by mentioning drones, but here we are with DJI’s latest creation—the Neo.

They say you can't forget how to ride a bicycle.

I haven't done a good job posting to my blog this year and this is the first step to correct it.

I've been posting a few sketches on my mastodon every Friday.

GNOME 46 is on its final stretch to be released.

Congratulations on finishing yet another ride around the Sol with me.

The refresh of the Human Interface Guidelines in both the content and presentation is something to be proud of, but there were a couple of areas that weren't great.

With the 45 release out the door, it would be a shame not to reveal some of the behind the scenes for the new wallpapers.

I've been wanting to make a game for as long as I remember.

This post is very unlikely for you.

While Flatpak itself is an architecturally decentralized way to distribute apps, Flathub embraces the convenience for people to come to one place to install apps.

As we gear up for the release of GNOME 44, let's take a moment to reflect on the visual design updates.

Builder has been absolutely wonderful for a designer to dive in and fix up graphics assets for Application.

Just like last year, October was filled with quick pixel dailies.

As mentioned in the previous post I've been creating these short pixel art animations for twitter and mastodon to promote the lovely apps that sprung up under the umbrella of the GNOME Circle project.

To keep the habbit alive, I continue to do a daily pixel routine, now covering almost all of the GNOME Circle apps.

In the classic analog synthesizer, a sound is created by a simple oscillator and then carving/shaping the sound with filters.

GNOME 43 Wallpapers Evolution and design can co-exist happily in the world of desktop wallpapers.

The Berlin hackfest and conference wasn't a polished, well organized experience like the usual GUADEC, it had the perfect Berlin flavor.

Flatpak has been at the center of the recent app renaissance, but its visual identity has remained fairly stale.

Next week it's going to be a year since Ingenuity made the first flight in an atmosphere of another planet.

Mentioning my ever lasting adoration of the realtime engine in Blender on twitter kind of exploded (for my standards), so I figured I'd write a blog post.

Spending less and less time on each track in Weeklybeats is making me a little nervous as to whether I will be able to finish such a marathon.

Since the start of the year I've been doing weeklybeats.

Probably only a fraction of you had a chance to see Droneman in a theatre.

It's been exactly one year since I've done the foolish thing and changed my blog backend to write more.

I drafted a post on how the Dirtywave M8 is an amazing synth, but given the time and the growing scope of that post, I'll sum it up in a short blurb instead.

I've created a couple of minisites for key OS components, built using no frameworks, but plain CSS.