I've been digging around on web platform status pages to see what's come out and what's planned for web developers. You can take the girl out of browser work but...

A few days ago was the 30th anniversary of the first time I wrote an HTML document.  Back in 1993, I took a Usenet posting of the “Incomplete Mystery Science...

Captain, status report: I’m down here in a jeffries tube, poking at V8’s garbage collector. However, despite working on other areas of the project recently, V8 is now so large...

If you’ve been paying attention to the evolution of the Linux gaming ecosystem in recent years, including the release of the Steam Deck and the new Steam Deck OLED, it’s...

Today, a followup to yesterday’s note with some more details on V8’s new young-generation implementation, minor mark-sweep or MinorMS.A caveat again: these observations are just from reading the code; I...

Vulkan Video encoder in GStreamer # During the last months of 2023, we, at Igalia, decided to focus on the latest provisional specs proposed by the Vulkan Video Khronos TSG...

I know, dear reader: of course you have already seen all my talks this year. Your attentions are really too kind and I thank you. But those other people, maybe...

A self-help guide for examining and debugging the AMD display driver within the Linux kernel/DRM subsystem. It’s based on my experience as an external developer working on the driver, and...

Android has all kinds of nice development tools, but sometimes you just want to run an apk and don’t need all the surrounding tooling. In my case, I have already...

This blog post introduces sched_ext, a recently proposed extensible scheduler class. sched_ext allows you to write and run your custom process scheduler optimized for your target workloads and hardware architectures...

Introduction I came across the paper Ownership You Can Count On (by Adam Dingle and David F. Bacon, seemingly written in 2007) some years ago and it stuck with me...

Last week marked a major milestone for me: the AMD driver-specific color management properties reached the upstream linux-next! And to celebrate, I’m happy to share the slides notes from my...