Xan López

Hacker at Igalia since February 2009
Vigo (Spain)
Free Software enthusiast, trying to improve the world a bit by giving it software that does not suck. Mostly failing for now :)
POSTS
Web 3.8: the peace dividends release
I’m very happy about this release. Thanks to hard choices that we dared to make in the past we are now breaking new ground and giving GNOME some of th...
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Theory and praxis of Netbanking
Do you know how when you get sick you suddenly cannot remember anything about your life but being sick in the past? With almost every memory gone, all
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On advertisement and international traveling
AdBlock, integrated
For a long time our adblock story was a bit underwhelming. We had an extension to do the job, but it was buggy and it would often
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We are almost there: Web in 3.6.0
It’s that time of the year again where we have a look at what happened in the project in the last 6 months. In mere weeks it will be released...
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Next on GUADEC
GUADEC has been going on for a few days already, but it is far from over. This is a short post to make some noise about some upcoming BoFs &...
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Do Not Track support in Epiphany
Twitter’s last Privacy Policy Update helpfully informs all users that they do now support the Do Not Track (DNT) browser setting, which aims to stop t
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Japan Freedom Hackers: Assemble!
Turns out I’ll get to spend the next two weeks in Tokyo, starting next Sunday. It will be third time I visit this weird and fascinating place, but I’m
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Summer of Code, Web 2012 vintage
This year’s Summer of Code has already started, and Epiphany has been lucky enough to get two students assigned. Let’s see who they are and what they’
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Web. It’s what’s for dinner.
GNOME 3.4 is around the corner, and with it a new version of its little web browser that could. This is for sure one of the most action packed release...
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