Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

Free & #OpenSource contributor (#Linux + #GNOME + #GStreamer) since 2004. Now co-maintaining the most magical desktop productivity apps combo (Getting Things GNOME! (npub154u…hlj7) & GNOME Calendar) as their benevolent lean engineering manager + occasional User Interaction & UX designer.

Waging war on mediocrity & unsustainability in business.
Founder of ideemarque (npub1fs8…frzz) + Studio Atypica (npub10td…yq0a), and Managing Partner at Regento (npub1pp4…wrnu).

Ex-Collabora, ex-psy, ex-Shinra.
I don't roleplay but I wear a cloak. ❄️
#fedi22

Personal website: https://fortintam.com
Company website: https://idmark.ca
Languages: 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🐍 (#Python)
Geographic natural habitat: [#Montréal](https://mastodon.social/tags/Montr%C3%A9al ) (#Montreal) [#Québec](https://mastodon.social/tags/Qu%C3%A9bec ) [#Canada](https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada )

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2026-03-19 06:36:46 UTC

Very happy about the new @npub1dug…kxeq release, and I'm proud about what my fellow contributors have accomplished together in this cycle. Tons and tons of bugfixes and new features! The release notes at https://release.gnome.org/50/ cover a small portion of the most user-visible changes, but there's a lot more to discover.
Meanwhile, in the #GNOME hashtag…
(after 40 minutes of reading through https://fedi.absturztau.be/notice/B4O8ucxRQoQyBxrrpg, I cannot imagine a more insane thread in the #fediverse)
#FLOSS #OpenSource #gratefulness
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2026-03-14 00:07:56 UTC

PSA: following the example from various other projects within GNOME, and based on libadwaita's policy document, GNOME Calendar now explicitly forbids AI-generated contributions: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/725
We honor the exquisite art of organic homegrown code made with care and a willingness to learn the craft, and want to protect the time of people who help review merge requests.
#MaintainerLife #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #OpenSource #GNOMECalendar #NoAI #aislop #genAI #LLM #GNOME #libadwaita

2025-04-08 20:00:56 UTC

Incredible how twist-lock powerbars are absolutely not a thing in North-American #hardware / #electronics stores (or any online store, even Chinese ones), and only found at reasonable prices in their natural habitat: #Japan.
I don't mean "twist to close", I mean twist-lock with the device plugged in. Incredibly useful for under-desk mounting, so that you can lock your "wall warts" in place without gravity (or any slight pull on the cord) unplugging them… this should be standard design.
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2025-03-15 23:15:05 UTC

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GUI toolkits deal with widgets.
The backgrounded app status is not a widget.

2025-03-15 13:02:07 UTC

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That doesn't make intuitive sense to me, and I'm not sure the widget toolkits people are going to think it makes sense either.
The background apps API is not a direct "do this specific graphical widget" kind of thing, it's an "operating system behavior" API.
It is the same to me than inhibiting screenlock or suspend (it does not involve a GUI toolkit) or emitting desktop notifications (you don't ask a widgets GUI toolkit to do it for you, you just do it)—the behavior is up to the DE.

2025-03-09 21:35:09 UTC

As courtesy, after I was recently made to comment on qBittorrent's ticket about supporting the XDG background application status APIs (i.e. the replacement for traditional system tray icons, and more), I have now provided that kind of information to the Transmission project as well: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/5484#issuecomment-2709060231
#FreeDesktop #Wayland #Flatpak #Linux

2025-01-08 13:58:21 UTC

Ever wondered why websites and web applications keep consuming CPU/power in the background with #GNOMEWeb?
This is the #WebKitGTK enhancement request I have filed to allow stopping the animations frame clock and telling websites that the window is not in focus (so that they can throttle themselves): https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285167
Not sure how widespread power throttling is among #web apps, but this provides a path for pretty significant power savings in #GNOME, #LinuxMobile & #embedded with #Wayland.

2024-09-02 16:41:17 UTC

"Whaddyamean, you could remove the built-in spyware?
No no no, that's a bug, the removal option was not supposed to be available, let's fix that…"
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/2/24233992/microsoft-recall-windows-11-uninstall-feature-bug
I do pity the general population who has to be subjected to that sort of built-in data collection, and all the security and privacy problems it entails. Too bad #Linux is not even a blip on the public consciousness & cultural upbringing.
#Windows11 #WindowsRecall #SurveillanceCapitalism

2024-08-21 00:55:50 UTC

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For what it's worth, Astra Monitor claims to be "performance-focused" and "Designed to be lightweight and efficient. Resources are only queried when needed. No polling. No wasted resources. Hidden components are not queried nor rendered."
Even then, I have configured it to set very slow refresh intervals, like "once per 3 to 10 seconds" for most things, particularly on my laptop, to have the smallest possible impact on energy consumption.

2024-08-13 13:20:41 UTC

I don't have a #LinuxMobile phone, but if I did, and I were to be using the #GNOME Snapshots app to take pictures, I would want to have exposure locking, focus locking and white balance locking and manual controls, like I do on #OpenCamera (incidentally, that's why I can take decent pictures on a phone, at all).
Here's the ponies-on-rainbows feature suggestion for this mobile #photography trick: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/snapshot/-/issues/215

2024-08-07 02:53:51 UTC

Wow, a friend of a friend gave me a #Monstera Deliciosa to thank me for giving them 2 🚲 to get settled in the city :blobaww:
I'm a bit worried as to how to not kill this plant. #houseplants don't do terribly well here when they need "bright indirect light", as my windows block 80% of rays outside visible spectrum, and it seems most plants & devices think it's dusk all the time.
Should I place it east-facing? Or 1-2m away from a south-facing window & gradually bring to the edge (acclimate it)?