Google Summer of Code
Five weeks into GSoC 2026, here's where things stand in implementing GPU reset recovery in Mutter. When a reset invalidates the GPU context and memory, Mutter currently has no way to recover: the desktop just freezes or crashes. This post walks through the recovery cycle, restoring the graphics pipeline, propagating the reset through the compositor, and the trickier bits like recovering the glyph cache.
I am delighted to announce that I am returning for Google Summer of Code 2026 to contribute to GNOME once again. Following my work on Crosswords last year, I will…
After months of dedicated work, I’m thrilled to announce that printing is finally available in GNOME Crosswords!
GNOME Crosswords renders its puzzles with an elegant grid-and-overlay system—until it needs to do it at scale. In this post, I dive deep into profiling its rendering pipeline, using tools like Sysprof, Callgrind, and QCachegrind to uncover bottlenecks in the SVG stages. What started as a slow thumbnail issue turned into a fascinating journey through performance profiling, call graphs, and the surprising overheads inside librsvg. With guidance from mentors and insights from real-world data, we’re reimagining how puzzles get rendered. It’s a story of curiosity, exploration, and optimization.
I am delighted to announce that I am contributing to GNOME Crosswords as part of the Google Summer of Code 2025 program. My project primarily aims to add printing support…