Nostr notes by Julian Sparber

Today a friend and I spend a few hours building Reflection on ...

2025-12-17T17:26:30Z

Today a friend and I spend a few hours building Reflection on MacOS. App icon is missing for some reason but the rest feels pretty great 😁

Reflection is now actually local-first, and almost the entire ...

2025-09-29T17:28:27Z

Reflection is now actually local-first, and almost the entire code base doesn't care whether you have network, or whether your device can't establish a connection to other devices via p2panda.

Still not merged nor fully polished but we are getting there :)

Finally got the notification grouping merged into GNOME Shell. ...

2025-02-14T10:22:52Z

Finally got the notification grouping merged into GNOME Shell. You should expect it in GNOME 48 🎉

Looks like it would be pretty easy to build an office suite that ...

2025-01-09T16:38:09Z

Looks like it would be pretty easy to build an office suite that follows the GNOME HIG.
I recently figured out there is a LibreOffice tiled render that can be embedded into GTK, there is even a prototype in core of LibreOffice.

I think we reached an important milestone today about my work on ...

2024-10-17T16:05:40Z

I think we reached an important milestone today about my work on modernizing notifications in GNOME and for the FreeDesktop.

Most of the improvements I proposed for version 2 of the xdg-desktop-portal got merged today. This has been a long journey and many thanks go to everybody involved, especially to those who reviewed the my changes 🎉

If you haven’t followed the journey: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1298

Thanks for everybody for coming. I hope we will have an other ...

2024-10-06T18:05:46Z

Thanks for everybody for coming. I hope we will have an other Hackfest in Bologna soon.

The first local GNOME hackfest in Bologna is going great. We are ...

2024-10-06T13:54:38Z

The first local GNOME hackfest in Bologna is going great. We are around 20 people way more then expected. People are learning, hacking and chatting.

I'm not a UI designer, but I spend a few hours creating ...

2024-10-04T21:23:57Z

I'm not a UI designer, but I spend a few hours creating mockups for the app we are gonna build on Sunday.

I wend over them together with Tobias Bernard (npub1dkc…3gke), and I was surprised how few changes he suggested. I guess looking up what other apps do and copying is a good way to make an app look and feel good 😁

Exciting update about the hackfest: We will now offer lunch for ...

2024-10-04T10:35:53Z

Exciting update about the hackfest: We will now offer lunch for participants of the hackfest. 🍲

The lunch will cost about 8 Euros. A friend volunteered to cook for us with the deal that any extra funds would go to the local social bicycle association Efesta (https://efesta.net), which we both are part of.

The event will be so much bigger than I anticipated, already more than 15 people signed up.🎉

Same event but now with a nice graphic. 😁 If you want to ...

2024-09-26T16:45:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…wvsz
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Same event but now with a nice graphic. 😁
If you want to participate, add yourself to the list at https://pad.gnome.org/hackfest-bologna-2024#

#gnome #bologna #italy

The first local GNOME hackfest in Bologna will happen on the 6 of ...

2024-09-24T13:29:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…k9vd
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The first local GNOME hackfest in Bologna will happen on the 6 of October.

We will try to create a simple Rust/GTK app for the 2FA mechanism used by Lepdia a SPID (Italian's public digital identity system) provider.

If you live close by and want to join you can find more details and add yourself to the list in this [pad](https://pad.gnome.org/s/hackfest-bologna-2024)

Ever wondered how focus stealing prevention works in GNOME Shell? ...

2024-09-20T14:24:57Z

Ever wondered how focus stealing prevention works in GNOME Shell? Or why you see "<App> is ready" notification?

https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2024/09/20/understanding-gnome-shells-focus-stealing-prevention/

I'm planing a Hackfest for October in Bologna (Italy) to ...

2024-09-06T15:17:35Z

I'm planing a Hackfest for October in Bologna (Italy) to foster a local GNOME community and to have fun working on a project with multiple people.

The idea for the Hackfest is to write a GNU/Linux app (using Rust and GTK) for the 2FA mechanism used by Lepida ID a SPID (Italian's public digital identity system) provider.

Feel free to reach out if you would like to join.

If you missed my talk about notifications during the ...

2024-08-13T10:09:10Z

If you missed my talk about notifications during the #miniguadecberlin the recordings are online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtN1EeVNa_Q