Over the past few weeks, Ignacy and I have made good progress on the next phase of features for parental controls in GNOME: a refresh of the parental controls UI, support for screen time limits for…| Philip Withnall
I was reminded today that I put together some notes last year with people’s feedback about what worked well at the last GUADEC. The idea was that this could be built on, and eventually become anoth…| Philip Withnall
Goodness, it’s been a long time since I blogged. I’ve got a lot of updates to give, but perhaps let’s keep this post short, and dedicated to publishing the details of the two talks I gave at GUADEC…| Philip Withnall
I’ve just finished estimating the carbon emissions from GUADEC 2022, and have a few interesting highlights from the report. The report is based on data collected from the streaming servers, registr…| Philip Withnall
Over the last couple of days I’ve been looking at a refcounting issue in GLib’s D-Bus implementation. As with many things in GLib, the allocations in this code use refcounting, rather than new/free…| Philip Withnall
While at GUADEC I finished a small script which uses the GitLab API to estimate the resource use of a project on GitLab. It looks at the CI pipeline job durations and artifact storage for the proje…| Philip Withnall
Another post which is not about software! I’ve recently, finally, finished reworking my garden, and here’s a brief writeup of what happened. It includes some ideas for low-embodied energy and ecolo…| Philip Withnall
I attended GUADEC 2023 this year in-person in Rīga. It was nice to be able to see more people in person than last year’s mini-GUADEC in Berlin, and nice to be able to travel overland/oversea to Rīg…| Philip Withnall
I’m really pleased with how the mini-GUADEC in Berlin turned out. We had a really productive conference, with various collaborations speeding up progress on Files, display colour handling, Shell, a…| Philip Withnall
I’ve just booked travel for getting to Riga, Latvia for GUADEC 2023, and I thought I’d quickly write up my travel plans in case it saves someone else some time in planning travel. I am not flying, …| Philip Withnall
