Luis de Bethencourt Software dev. GStreamer guy. Linux hacker. Curious geek. @ Amazon Alexa Former: SUN, Collabora, Samsung Open Source, Prime Video
Toronto, Ontario
Joined November 2008
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Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops! 🥴
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I am officially no longer the Engineering Manager for the Accessibility Experience Team at Twitter. I have words. 🧵
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10 years later, I suddenly realize I never actually announced that I once designed & coded my own no-BS music player in a few weeks with #Python, @GTKtoolkit 3, @GStreamer 1.x, and a wild @luisbg. I guess it's too late to ask the public to flatpak it 😅 github.com/nekohayo/wolfgang
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I'll be performing my one man show at this years @fundyfringefest
Come on down to check out all the great acts of this years festival!
#fundyfringefest #saintjohn
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We are hiring a developer to work on our internal web applications. It's a dynamic position for people who enjoy being part of all the steps of sw development.
If you want to join our team and help support and empower Igalians, don't hesitate to apply!
igalia.com/jobs/full_stack_d…
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Am I the only one who feels that Rust+GTK4+libadwaitia is sparking a renaissance of native GNOME apps not seen before since the Python and Mono GTK2 days?
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Igalia is pleased to introduce @WolvicXr :
A new browser project with an initial focus of picking up where Firefox Reality leaves off
igalia.com/2022/02/02/Introd…
ALT A photo of the virtual environment inside of wolvic, a bright winters day in a 3d nordic forest with the word wolvic floating in the air above a 3d wolf
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@BevyEngine 0.6 is out now!
It features a brand new faster / prettier / simpler renderer, shadows, clustered forward rendering, frustum culling, batched sprite rendering, native WebGL2 support, Materials, shader imports, ECS ergonomics, and much more!
bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-6…
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Mattamy Homes are major donors to Doug Ford and they bankroll Ontario/Canada Proud. One reason we are not in a full lockdown in this province is because Doug is catering to their interests. This workplace incident is a telling example of the contempt they have for your sacrifices
One of the GTA's largest property developers says it was "extremely inappropriate and entirely unacceptable" that workers associated with one of its dry wall contractors had a stripper at a job site last week in the middle of the pandemic. bit.ly/3x1XGgw
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Linux Kernel mentor program for Spring 2021 to help fix kernel bugs is now open for applications:
mentorship.lfx.linuxfoundati…
Help spread the word, the last two rounds of this resulted in loads of kernel patches submitted in lots of different areas and a few job offers.
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dwarf.world udpate:
- This I worked on light propagation so caves get darker the further you go inside them.
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev
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Since elves don't exist, I think parents should be real with their kids and have an " Amazon Worker The Shelf". Could be a good teaching moment.
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Crowds at Sky Harbor: The day after the CDC recommended people cancel their Thanksgiving travel plans, #azfamily viewer Ed Westerfield caught this scene of passengers waiting at their gates
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Having malls stay open extra late because the lockdown starts on Monday kinda misses the point don't you think?
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dwarf.world update:
* larger worlds WIP
* a ton of perf optimizations to support maps of this size
* new art
* nice faked shadows (as you can see on the left side).
* I know it's sunday but forgot to post yesterday :D #screenshotsaturday
