Notices by Hylke Bons 🥜 (hbons@mastodon.social)

The Linux Foundation had $300 million in revenue in 2025.

can't hire a designer.

absolutely pathetic.

Bobby made it into #GNOME Circle today! proud! 🥳

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Circle/-/work_items/270

because I keep biting off more than I can chew. I wanted to release a small utility first to get familiar again with #GNOME / #GTK / #Flatpak development.

also something that I need myself. a week worth of hacking.

introducing Bobby: a SQLite file viewer.

https://github.com/hbons/Bobby

#rust

RE: https://mastodon.world/@pkmgm/116510358398464141

shiny squirrel appeared!

@amszmidt @slomo a little “we’re on it” seems not too hard no?

@gregrorio yes, although in the FSF case it’s more likely they don’t realise the severity because don’t communicate much outside their bubble.

@lain where are they? I only know @gombang…

don’t want to give this too much attention, has anyone seen this?

a whole suit of shamelessly generated #gnome slop apps. the music app is an obvious copy of Amberol!

https://gnomestarterpack.com/

@vadim are you kidding?

RE: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/116251378634855765

smoke weed. do #FOSS.

“due to bad experiences, I don’t work with scammers. I don’t want scammers to contact me.”

“but how do you know they’re scammers? what if the scammer does good work?”

every #foss discussion right now.

#GitHub sticking two fingers in its ears and going LALALALALALALA

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/185387

got my first AI slop PR and it feels so so much dirtier than I thought it would be. fuming. 😡

@forteller yes! that's the plan. thanks for the inspiration. :)

the NOAA space weather data does not have an API. it's a bunch of undocumented random .json files behind a CDN that sometimes partially cuts cached files.

so I wanted to have something reliable to work with first.

it's... interesting for an official government agency... 🤨

alright let's get started!

got a backend that mirrors+archives to SQLite (hence Bobby) space weather data from the NOAA. and you'll be able to self-host a mirror.

now to write a beautiful aurora dashboard in #gtk #libadwaita UI!

#linux #opensource #gnome #design

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hbons/115684542795059829

several people told me (unprompted) that they liked my "micro dev blogging" for Bobby on here.

so fave if you want to see my failures in real time for the next one. :)

#gnome #linux #programming

teaser for my little winter project. ❄

#gnome #design #app #flatpak #rust #icon #foss

adding ✨.

almost done with the low hanging fruit. now need to add graphs over time.

best way to do that?

#linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #libadwaita #design #aurora

been a while since I used a Grid (probably GTK2 days). and being able to set relative positions to other items is a lot more intuitive and less clunky than hardcoding edge numbers.

also <sub> and <sup> texts are working nicely for scientific notations! 📊

#linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #libadwaita #design #aurora