About me
An Australian living in London, I work as the graphics lead at the open-source consultancy Collabora. During my 10 years with Collabora, I’ve worked with clients such as ARM, Intel, Google, Raspberry...
View ArticleBeen a while
hi Yeesh, it really has been a while, hasn’t it. Last time we spoke, I was working on X11, and my blog was being served off a FreeBSD 4.3 machine (obviously named ‘amnesiac’), from the datacentre of...
View Articlexkbcommon: what is it?
So, in my earlier post, I mentioned that I’d been working on a library called xkbcommon. Since it’s got a massively misleading name (and renaming hasn’t been totally ruled out yet …), it’s probably...
View ArticleWeston on Raspberry Pi
One of the platforms we’ve been working on for a while at Collabora is the Raspberry Pi. Obviously the $25 pricepoint makes it hugely appealing to a lot of people — including free software developers...
View Articlelinux.conf.au CfP closing fast!
Everyone’s favourite Australasian open source conference, linux.conf.au, is unsurprisingly back for 2014. This time, it’s in Perth, where it’s relentlessly hot and sunny all year; I’m told the beaches...
View Articlefreedesktop.org CoC
On Friday, after consulting with the other freedesktop.org admins, I pushed a change to the freedesktop.org wiki, adding a Code of Conduct, based on the widely-used Contributor Covenant. In doing...
View Articlepl111: the most satisfying driver submission
The pl111 driver might be the most satisfying driver submission yet. Not because I’m desperate to see it in tree; I don’t actually have that hardware. Not because it’s bringing really exciting new...
View ArticleIntroducing freedesktop.org GitLab
This is quite a long post. The executive summary is that freedesktop.org now hosts an instance of GitLab, which is generally available and now our preferred platform for hosting going forward. We...
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