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Stéphane Cerveau: Introducing GstPipelineStudio 0.3.4
GstPipelineStudioAs it’s not always convenient to use the powerful command line based, gst-launch tool and also manage all the debug possibilities on all the platforms supported by GStreamer, I started...
View ArticleMichael Sheldon: How to make Flutter’s AlertDialog screen reader friendly
While developing Pied, I discovered that Flutter’s AlertDialog widget isn’t accessible to screen reader users (there’s been a bug report filed against this for over a year). Text within the AlertDialog...
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Víctor Jáquez: GStreamer Conference 2023
This year the GStreamer Conference happened in A Coruña, basically at home, along with the hackfest.The conference was the first after a long hiatus of four years of pandemics. The community craved it...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer 1.22.7 stable bug fix release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the stable 1.22 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! This release only contains bugfixes and...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: i accidentally a scheme
Good evening, dear hackfriends. Tonight's missive is an apology: not quite in the sense of expiation, though not quite not that, either; rather, apology in the sense of explanation, of exegesis:...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: whiffle, a purpose-built scheme
Yesterday I promised an apology but didn't actually get past the admission of guilt. Today the defendant takes the stand, in the hope that an awkward cross-examination will persuade the jury to take...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: a whiff of whiffle
A couple nights ago I wrote about a superfluous Scheme implementation and promised to move on from sheepishly justifying my egregious behavior in my next note, and finally mention some results from...
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Michael Sheldon: Pied Beta
For the past couple of months I’ve been working on Pied, an application that makes it easy to use modern, natural sounding, text-to-speech voices on Linux. It does this by integrating the Piper neural...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm
Let's talk about tree-shaking!looking up from the troughBut first, I need to talk about WebAssembly's dirty secret: despite the hype, WebAssembly has had limited success on the web.There is Photoshop,...
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Christian Schaller: Fedora Workstation 39 and beyond
I have not been so active for a while with writing these Fedora Workstation updates and part of the reason was that I felt I was beginning to repeat myself a lot, which I partly felt was a side effect...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: colophonwards
A brief meta-note this morning: for the first time in 20 years, I finally got around to updating the web design of wingolog.org recently and wanted to share a bit about that.Back when I made the...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: the last 5 years of V8's garbage collector
Captain, status report: I’m down here in a jeffries tube, poking at V8’s garbage collector. However, despite working on other areas of the project recently, V8 is now so large that it’s necessary to...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: v8's mark-sweep nursery
Today, a followup to yesterday’s note with some more details on V8’s new young-generation implementation, minor mark-sweep or MinorMS.A caveat again: these observations are just from reading the code;...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: a simple hdr histogram
Good evening! This evening, a note on high-dynamic-range (HDR) histograms.problemHow should one record garbage collector pause times?A few options present themselves: you could just record the total...
View ArticleGStreamer: New GStreamer Matrix chat space
Hello everyone, As part of the ongoing effort to provide better tooling and services for the GStreamer community at wide, there is now a Matrix instance for GStreamer available at...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: sir talks-a-lot
I know, dear reader: of course you have already seen all my talks this year. Your attentions are really too kind and I thank you. But those other people, maybe you share one talk with them, and then...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: service update
Late last year I switched blog entries and comments to be written in a dialect of markdown, but there was a bug that I never noticed: if a text consisted only of a single paragraph or block, it would...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer 1.22.8 stable bug fix release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce another bug fix release in the stable 1.22 release series of your favourite cross-platform multimedia framework! This release only contains bugfixes and...
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