Michael A. Murphy :system76:

https://fosstodon.org/@mmstick

System76 (:system76:) engineer and Pop!_OS (:popos:) maintainer working on COSMIC: a next generation desktop environment in Rust. Occasionally provides support on https://chat.pop-os.org and https://pop_os.reddit.com. Comments will lean towards #PopOS, #RustLang, #CosmicDesktop, #Linux, and #RedoxOS.

:github: GitHub: https://github.com/mmstick
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:protonmail: Email: michael@mmurphy.dev
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2026-04-24 17:59:00 UTC

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If you are already using the futures crate, `futures::executor::block_on` already does the same thing.

2025-12-17 01:15:48 UTC

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For the moment, you can use the Add Network Drive button to enter the URI of the server. Same syntax as in GNOME Files since it's using gvfs. Then you can add a remote path as a favorite in the nav bar with Ctrl+D.
Sometimes I see my SMB server, but I also notice it not showing up more often than not.

2025-11-20 16:23:59 UTC

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Rust isn't responsible for a programmer using an unwrap method where they should have handled the error.
> This seems to fall into the exact space where Rust claims to be safer.
In what way does this invalidate Rust's memory and thread safety guarantees? Panics are intentional. The unwrap method declares that the failure case is a programmer error (logic bug) that should throw an exception with a backtrace. If not manually caught, main() will unwind and print the backtrace itself.

2025-09-26 02:47:35 UTC

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GTK app theming should be working out of the box if you have adw-gtk3 installed.

2024-12-10 18:07:42 UTC

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COSMIC development has already led to accessibility improvements for the Linux desktop with Wayland, and for accessibility support in GUI app development with iced. Its also led to improvements in Wayland protocols and Wayland compositors using Smithay. I can tell you've not used, developed for, or looked at COSMIC. Username certainly checks out.

2024-07-06 23:12:41 UTC

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Well now you do. That would be describing [@COSMIC_desktop](https://fosstodon.org/@COSMIC_desktop )