In this blog post, I will describe my recent work on improving and optimizing the handling of x87 code in FEX. This work landed on July 22, 2024, through commit...

Jasmine talks about usage of the probabilistic method in games.

Hey everyone! The 2024 Linux Display Next hackfest concluded in May, and its outcomes continue to shape the Linux Display stack. Igalia hosted this year’s event in A Coruña, Spain,...

Finally! Yesterday Khronos published Vulkan 1.3.296 including VK_EXT_device_generated_commands. Thousands of engineering hours seeing the light of day, and awesome news for Linux gaming. Device-Generated Commands, or DGC for short, are...

WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit recently released a new stable version 2.46. This version includes important changes in the graphics implementation. Skia The most important change in 2.46 is the introduction of...

In a recent effort to make the Node.js builds reproducible again (at least on Linux), a big remaining piece was the built-in snapshot. I wrote some notes about the journey...

In the previous post, we covered how the Node.js built-in snapshot is generated and embedded into the executable, and how I fixed the Node

In the previous posts we looked into how the Node.js executable was made a bit more reproducible after the Node.js snapshot data and the V8 code cache were made reproducible,...

This blog post will focus on memory issue case, and I’ll walk you through my experiences in investigating and resolving it. The issue involved WPEWebKit and the Cairo graphics library....

The element implementation in WebKit does its job by using a multiplatform player that relies on a platform-specific implementation. In the specific case of glib platforms, which base their multimedia...

The CSS highlight inheritance model describes the process for inheriting the CSS properties of the various highlight pseudo elements: ::selection controlling the appearance of selected content ::spelling-error controlling the appearance...

Early this month I spent a couple weeks in Montreal, visiting the city, but mostly to attend the GStreamer Conference and the following hackfest, which happened to be co-located with...