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Owen Taylor
Personal blog · blog.fishsoup.netprogrammingsystems
Owen Taylor writes fishsoup, a personal blog at blog.fishsoup.net about programming and systems. Since 2007, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Implementing the next GNOME shell”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Owen Taylor's blog for his posts on Fedora's future direction (immutable base OS, Flatpak apps, containerized dev tooling) and an early 2008 technical overview of GNOME Shell.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Implementing the next GNOME shell2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-08-11
What Hacker News says?
Fedora folks have been thinking about this problem for a while, and in the long-term we may see the distribution get restructured to address it: https://blog.fishsoup.net/2016/08/24/summer-talks-purpleegg/ TLDR: There are no commitments yet, but we may see a future version of Fedora Workstation that consists of an immutable, replace-only base OS, applications delivered by Flatpak, and tooling for containerized devel…
Comment linking /2016/08/24/summer-talks-purpleegg/
on “The next version of Fedora picks up Rust”Submitted Reinteract - Better interactive Python as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere are a bunch of open source software to do what exactly what they advocate, that is "a tool-assisted lightweight code review". At Mozilla, we use GitHub (for project hosted on github, such as Gaia), and splinter [1], that integrates with bugzilla. I know there is an ongoing effort to switch to reviewboard [2] at the moment, as we feel our review tool should do more that what splinter is capable of doing. [1]: h…
Comment linking /2009/09/23/splinter-patch-review/
on “Proven practices for more effective, efficient peer code review”Submitted Avoiding Jitter in Composited Frame Display as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGNOME Shell is the window manager (and some would argue a little bit more) for GNOME3. The GNOME wiki is a good place to start. A mostly up-to-date design overview is available at https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/ A technical overview can be found at Owen Taylor's blog http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/10/22/implementing-the-next-gn... It's old, from when the shell was just being planned, but all the major archi…
Comment linking /2008/10/22/implementing-the-next-gnome-shell/
on “Analysis of the conflict among Canonical, GNOME, and KDE”Submitted GNOME Shell Status as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gnome-battery-bench as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Application/Compositor Synchronization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing the next GNOME shell as a story · 1 points
HN discussion