The Guardian has a piece on British typographer and graphic designer Margaret Calvert, who’s (partially or wholly) responsible for the British highway signage typeface (Transport), the British Rail typeface (Rail Alphabet) and the pictographs on British road signs, and whose autobiography is also out:
Emmanuele Bassi
FLOSS project necromancer.
Geek, husband, lover, software developer, Londoner. Not necessarily in that order.
he/him
Proud #GTK and #GNOME dev; member of the GNOME Foundation.
"One of the people responsible for the failure of the Linux desktop", according to a random YouTube user.
Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad.
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Some dudes would rather clean up documentation for AI agents than make documentation easier to read for everyone, such as people
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The talk I gave yesterday at #FOSDEM, titled "Free as in Burned Out, who really pays for Open Source Software?" has already been published!
You can watch it here:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/L3BK7S-free-as-in-burned-out/
GTK hackfest ➡️ FOSDEM (somewhat) ➡️ OpenEmbedded workshop
This is officially the longest time I spent in Brussels since my first visit 20 years ago
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We are still at #FOSDEM !
If you are considering becoming a recurring donor, now it is your time!
Come to our stand in K level 2 and you get this t-shirt!!
@laund @christophbegall none of this is a fully rust project
@purpleidea FOSDEM and questionable hygiene practices, name a more iconic duo
@purpleidea no; I’ll have to try it next time
@laund @christophbegall we cross compile for Android, but keeping the CI happy on Windows and macOS with the Rust toolchain is its own full time job. We do that because we depend on AccessKit for accessibility anyway.
The main reason we don’t use librsvg is, though, that it does not allow us to use the rendering primitives we use for widgets, and that it does not support animations.
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Save the date: Our FOSDEM social event takes place on Saturday 31st
1. Pizza🍕: https://pommodorobxl.be/fr
7.30-9.30pm
2. Drinks🍻 at garden bar: https://www.deliriumvillage.com/bar/floris-garden/
9.30pm onwards
@laund @christophbegall nothing specific to librsvg: it's just the rust toolchain being a lot, especially on Android.
@christophbegall hard to build on Windows/Android/macOS. Also: it does not generate drawing operations for GTK, so we can’t optimise the output
I'm looking at you, Sphinx…
If you have a tool that takes a build directory as the target for generating a bunch of files, make it automatically generate a gitignore file inside the same target directory. A simple:
echo "*" > ${builddir}/.gitignore
will do, and save a lot of time.
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If you’re going to FOSDEM, please wear masks. The venue is stuffy and con crud was a thing before the virus that can take away your ability to concentrate enough to make software.
@jablkoziemne @hbons @markusms Welcome to Liquid Glass
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