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Last week, I improved Papers' code around link previews. You'll get in Papers upcoming release. Want me to tease what to get in 49? We were meeting, as we regularly do: So, at the same time, @FineFindus, sitting across from me … completely rewrote the thumbnailer … of course in Rust. All that, while [@pabloyoyoista](

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975 Posts, 104 Following, 614 Followers · Free Software hacker by coincidence, maintainer by necessity. I have made it one of my life goals, to...

) worked on improvements for the context menu for annotations. (Based on @Tobias Bernard's¹ great mock-ups for it.) ¹ for clarity: not present #GNOME #GNOMEHH

I just read it one too many times that Linux on Mobile should focus on this app, and not that … No. You do not bootstrap an ecosystem like a minimal viable product. The former we need, not the latter. We DO need multiple apps per category—for navigation, and messaging. And there is room for multiple multimedia players. Each and every one can serve an ever so slightly different use-case. And THIS is what makes an ecosystem lively, and not „technically having everything“. Let's create it together!

It has been three and a half months since I announced “I will make Papers – the soon-to-be default document viewer in GNOME – work on mobile, while improving the UI in general.” For that, I was granted a stipend by Google Open Source. And, I would say: I delivered on this promise—see for your self, with the next release of Papers. Now, my project is over (but I am here to stay), and if you want to read a bit more about what I did, I’ll humbly recommend my blog post:

Markus Göllnitz

Document Viewer on Mobile

If you only want a document viewer on your phone, get Papers on Flathub. If you are interested in the resulting source code of my GSoC project, che...

When you wanted to request your extended streaming history from Spotify, you used to need to email their privacy support. It is great that you are only a mouse click and a 17 day waiting period away to find out that your gini coefficient for listens per recordings is decreasing. 🙃