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Bastien Nocera: Send to Pocket using GNOME
I'm a big fan of Pocket, the "Read Later" service.I regularly save blog posts, videos, tweets and articles to read later, and then consume them on my iPad 1 (I hope they don't cut off the old app yet),...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: optimizing let in spidermonkey
Peoples! Firefox now optimizes let-bound variables!What does this mean, you ask? Well, as you nerdy wingolog readers probably know, the new ECMAScript 6 standard is coming soon. ES6 has new facilities...
View ArticleBastien Nocera: On the beauty of libarchive
In your applications, you might have to deal with compressed files: ISO images of installers, e-book or e-comic types based on ZIP files, video DVD images.libarchive makes things easier by allowing you...
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: The Death of Instant Messaging in 2013
We kinda failed at freeing/opening up telecommunications for the the public, though it wasn’t really our fault.Back in the nineties, ICQ and AIM were the significant players with a “first mover”...
View ArticleBastien Nocera: GNOME Web hacks
After the Pocket integration earlier this week, I've cooked up or landed a couple more patches.Mailman passwordsThose darn mailman administrator passwords. There's no "forgot password" button and the...
View ArticleStefan Kost: 21 Dec 2013
sndfile plugin for gstreamer 1.X A merry christmas to everybody. As a little present for musicians, I started a rewrite of the sndfile plugin that had not been ported from gstreamer-0.10. The new...
View ArticleGStreamer: GStreamer Core and Plugins 1.2.2 stable release
The GStreamer team is pleased to announce a new release of the stable 1.2 release series. The 1.2 release series is adding new features on top of the 1.0 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable...
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Michael Sheldon: Rockwatch 1.3 Released
OverviewRockwatch allows your N9 to communicate with a Pebble smart watch. It makes it possible to install and manage Pebble apps, upgrade your Pebble’s firmware, receive notifications of e-mails and...
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: Le chiffrement des partitions Linux d’un ordinateur...
Pendant des années, j’ai eu un item sur ma liste de choses à faire: chiffrer (encrypter) le disque dur de données de mon ordinateur de bureau personnel. Parce que… que se passerait-il si je me faisais...
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: Scratching some Media Library itches
Besides looking for a job, catching a cold and shovelling snow, this holiday season I spent some time scratching itches in Pitivi. For starters, thumbnails generation: if you’ve been using the new...
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Sebastian Dröge: GStreamer Dynamic Pipelines
Another recurring topic with GStreamer since a long time is how to build applications with dynamic pipelines. That is, pipelines in which elements are relinked while the pipeline is playing and without...
View ArticleAndy Wingo: a continuation-passing style intermediate language for guile
Happy new year's, hackfolk!A few weeks ago I wrote about the upcoming Guile 2.2 release, and specifically about its new register virtual machine. Today I'd like to burn some electrons on another new...
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Bastien Nocera: "Acceleration of our rhythms of life"
This afternoon, I stumbled by chance on a scientific radio programme discussing, amongst other things, multi-tasking and the effect of notifications and interruptions on the user's workflow. This...
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Jan Schmidt: DVD playback in GStreamer 1.0
Some time in 2012, the GStreamer team was busy working toward the GStreamer 1.0 major release. Along the way, I did my part and ported the DVD playback components from 0.10. DVD is a pretty complex...
View ArticleSebastian Dröge: EFL and Enlightenment GStreamer 1.x support
Over the past few weeks I did some work on porting Emotion to GStreamer 1.x. Emotion is the media library used by Enlightenment and part of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL). It provides a...
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Andy Wingo: elf in guile
Good evening, gentle hackfolk!Today I'd like to wrap up my three-part series of articles on what's new in Guile 2.2's compiler and runtime. I talked about the virtual machine a couple months ago, and...
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Christian Schaller: Integrating Chrome Applications into your desktop
With the growing popularity of ChromeOS and Chrome applications we have been doing a little research project inside Red Hat to make such applications a bit more integrated into your Fedora desktop. As...
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: Praise for the Personal Desktop Computer
On my personal homepage, I maintain a timeline of personal computers I’ve owned or closely maintained. The ones I’ve been using as my personal workhorses are the ones in green:Looking back, I have to...
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Jean-François Fortin Tam: Moving planets around
A minor security problem on the Pitivi website (a script kiddie covertly filling a cache folder with pharma SEO spam) lured me into the following adventure, when MagpieRSS was suspected of having been...
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Christian Schaller: Getting Wayland Input handling ready
I noticed an article on Phoronix today about libinput which made me think I should post a little Wayland update again. So Libinput is developed by Peter Hutterer who is part of the Graphics team here...
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