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We're excited to share our brand new GNOME Developer website! The site includes helpful components, tools, docs, and tutorials along with a new version of our Human Interface Guidelines. Check it out: https://developer.gnome.org/

#opensource #GNOME #documentation

If you're interested in GNOME Mobile development, adaptive apps, and the future of the GNOME platform join our virtual Q&A later this week!

We'll have many of the core people behind various pieces of the stack, including @agx, @KekunPlazas, @exalm, @dos, and myself.

Thursday, July 29
14:00 UTC

meet.gnome.org/ale-z3p-pjq-kkn

We're kicking off #GUADEC2021 with a welcome party! Bring your favorite drink and snack and join us in Track 1 at 19:00 UTC today for this informal social: https://events.gnome.org/event/9/page/108-social-events

Check your registration email for the Track 1 access code, or register today to receive it!

Rust GCC Backend was officially merged in the compiler.

https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/442#issuecomment-876358112

Reminder to all GNOME Foundation members: today is the last day to vote for the Foundation Board. Check your email for voting instructions and make sure to submit before 23:59 UTC.

View the list of candidates here: https://vote.gnome.org/2021/candidates.html

#OpenSource #FOSS

Libadwaita 1.0.0-alpha.1 is out!

Start porting your application from GTK 3 and Libhandy to GTK 4 and Libadwaita now with our migration guide: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/1.0.0-alpha.1/migrating-libhandy-1-4-to-libadwaita.html

Be aware that the API is bound to change until the first beta, planned for mid-August.

It's now possible to compile small Rust programs with libgccjit! This will enable Rust on a bunch more architectures.

https://blog.antoyo.xyz/rustc_codegen_gcc-run-core-tests

Admittedly these programs don't run correctly yet, but getting something basic working often takes 80% of the work in PL.

"Break ABI to save C++" is a great talk, among other things because it uses Compiler Explorer to show exactly what happens at the assembly level when you change things that will break ABI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By7b19YIv8Q

I posted a wall of text to give my views about the future of instant messaging in the GNOME community.

IRC has served us very well for many years, but I think it's time to let it go and move together towards a more modern platform.

That doesn't mean ditching IRC just like that would be a success. We need our community members to want to move together in the same direction.

A new platform is a target, but without transition plan we're doomed to fail again.

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/irc-matrix-and-thanks-for-all-the-kicks/6482

Looks like #Rust in GCC is progressing nicely: https://thephilbert.io/2021/05/03/gcc-rust-monthly-report-5-april-2021/

If you know #C, consider helping out.

MellowPlayer is a free and open source software for listening to music from various cloud services in a single desktop application window

Install: Flatpak and AppImage packages, EXE (Windows)

https://linuxmasterclub.com/mellowplayer/

Did you know #postmarketOS supports a few smartwatches? Well, now you do!

However, up till now we didn't have a proper UI for them. Since I put a lot of work in the Mer stack to get it running for #Glacier, it was only a few more packages to get #AsteroidOS up and running on #postmarketOS as well!

Merge request coming in real soon!

1111 apps on Flathub 🎉

Huge kudos to @barthalion, @wjt, @bilelmoussaoui and everyone else who helped to get it to this point!

A few days ago I had an idea for a simple e-ink project and found Inkplate - an Open Hardware design with ESP32 and recycled Kindle displays.

Programmed it to wake up daily at midnight to download a PGM image over WiFi (https://gitlab.com/dos1/kartka) from a server which checks some stuff like trash collection schedule. Should last years on a single battery charge.

Check it out if you look for a super approachable way to build some e-ink stuff! https://inkplate.io/

Anything done with #AlpineLinux or #postmarketOS that you could turn into a 🗨️ talk for AlpineConf? Submit your talk now!

"Anybody from the Alpine community (or related projects such as downstreams like postmarketOS) is welcome to submit a talk for the conference, even if they are not a developer, as long as the talk is related to Alpine. So, for example, if you've built something cool with Alpine, we want to hear from you!"

https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/devel/%3C69c9fb7d-1531-92c4-5a93-8d9e4264ee%40dereferenced.org%3E

Here comes libadwaita! Read about our plans to make GNOME apps and GTK 4 even better, and about the future of libhandy: https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2021/03/31/introducing-libadwaita.html

New tutorial: Drawing GNOME app mockups in Inkscape!

If you've ever wondered how to get started drawing app mockups like we do on the design team, this is for you :)

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2021/03/22/drawing-mockups

Do you use an RSS/Atom reader?

Boosts appreciated for sample size :)

Finally took the time to write about those tabs I've been tooting about: https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2021/03/13/reinventing-tabs/