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 (

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), which we both are part of. The event will be so much bigger than I anticipated, already more than 15 people signed up.🎉

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

GNOME Shell & Mutter

Understanding GNOME Shell&#8217;s focus stealing prevention

Focus stealing prevention exists for two main reasons: One is security, since we need to prevent rogue apps from deceiving users into e.g. typing t...

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 #miniguadecberlin the recordings are online