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Emmanuele Bassi

@bassi.io
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He/him. Geek, husband, lover, software developer, Londoner. Not necessarily in that order. Proud GTK and GNOME dev. "One of the people responsible for the failure of the Linux desktop" according to a random YouTube user.

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Igalia @igalia.com · 30/09/2026
All Systems Go! Fifty minutes until Emmanuele Bassi presents “Moonforge: Making Yocto Easy To Assemble” 11:55 CEST in the Galerie. See you there?
IGALIA @ ALL SYSTEMS GO! 2026

Moonforge: Making
Yocto Easy To Assemble

Emmanuele Bassi
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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Folks, you’ve gotta get comfortable saying “your behavior is fucked up, and justifying it using the language of social justice and therapy doesn’t change that.”
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
alas, we only measure velocity in terms of fast we fuck around and not how slowly we find out as a result and getting programmers to think about the consequences of their actions is as hard as ever, now we've found new ways of "it works on my machine"
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Emmanuele Bassi @bassi.io · 06/09/2026
turning a big dial taht says "fascism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Prison?
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lyndsay @magpie.tips · 26/08/2026
"what a week, huh?" / "lemon it's Wednesday" meme
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Igalia @igalia.com · 12/08/2026
BIG NEWS: Bocoup is now Igalia! The two worker co-ops have agreed to join forces, with several members of Bocoup coming aboard at Igalia, along with the brand assets and web site. More details in our official announcement: www.igalia.com/2026/Joining...
Igalia + Bocoup
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this was a misatke @thiswasamisatke.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Spoons figured it out?
Meme of Michael and Janet from The Good Place. Michael says “spoons figured it out? Spoons? This is a real low point.”
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GNOME @gnome.org · 29/07/2026
Amberol is a sleek music player that plays music and nothing beyond that, it doesn't overwhelm with tons of unneeded preferences. It's also what popularised using album art for the background in music players! apps.gnome.org/Amberol/ Thank you @bassi.io for making this! #GNOME #GNOMECircle #music
Screenshot of Amberol playing "Return to Slime" by DM Dokuro and SixteenInMono. The UI background has a purple gradient.
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
THEY TALKED TO THE COMPUTER IN STAR TREK BEACUSE ITS A *TV SHOW* AND YOU CANT HEAR WHAT SOMEONE IS TYPING NOT BEACUSE IT IS GOOD UX
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Lots of the UK’s rising fascism problems are causing by bored well off 60 year olds in villages with too much Facebook screen time
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ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔬𝔰 ☽|☾ 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔰 @chaospriestess.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
Screencap of Sam Neil in Event Horizon, his flight suit features an Australian flag with the union jack replaced by a yellow circle on black and red, the Australian aboriginal flag
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
RIP Bonnie Tyler, an absolute goddess. This isn't even the only comic I've written where Total Eclipse is central, as central as it was to all those years when we DJed, and became the ceremonial phonomantic ending, because where can you go from here? Apex pop culture.
Cover of Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl by Jamie Mckelvie, homaging thevideo to total eclipse of the heart.Page from Immaterial Girl, homaging the video.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
this, forever
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Tango! @pikeshorse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Bob Peak (1967)
Bob Peak 1967 artwork for tv Guide
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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 24/06/2026
So many AI dorks calling themselves “prompt engineers” thinking they’re the best at asking a computer the right question for shitty art, yet would be befuddled by two brothers standing at a fork in the road claiming that one only lies while the other only tells the truth.
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 20/06/2026
"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 06/06/2026
I hate this myth so fucking much because it started after a study specifically to see if brains developed after 18. So they limited the study to age 25. And people decided that meant brains develop only until 25 even though a later study with no age limit showed brains NEVER stop developing.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/06/2026
Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...
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Anthopic, OpenAI Should Not Be Allowed to IPO, Says Ed Zitron
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
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GNOME @gnome.org · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 No matter where you look in our project, you'll find LGBTQIA+ people. We are lucky to have so many fantastic queer contributors. We stand with you, especially in today's divided world. #PRIDE #QueersInFoss
White GNOME logo on progress flag wallpaper. This is one of the default wallpapers in GNOME.
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brad [Dwigt Rortugal arc] @bradicality.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a Business class and the professor is writing like "profit = revenue - costs" on the board and everyone is taking notes like its actual school
(brown hog with head exploding meme superimposed over text) The comment led to what he described as a "head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count. He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features
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Emmanuele Bassi @bassi.io · 24/05/2026
I'm still playing the originals with WINE on Linux, but you bet this gets downloaded on day 1.
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/
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Myka @puzzledpolygon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
lol. lmao even.
A screenshot of a reddit post decrying the price increase of GitHub Copilot which switches to usage based billing. The post shows a screenshot of this users current billing, 39$. Next to it, it shows a preview of their billing going forward: 1063$.
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tante @tante.cc · 07/05/2026
"Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship."
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Programming Still Sucks. — Writing
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 05/05/2026
I don’t want to be rude but this should have made two billion dollars
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Emmanuele Bassi @bassi.io · 29/04/2026
2027 is going to be the year of the Windows gaming desktop
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AIPT @aiptcomics.com · 27/04/2026
Gerry Conway, co-creator of the Punisher and writer of the iconic death of Gwen Stacy, has passed away. A legend whose work helped shape modern comics. Rest in peace.
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Comics legend Gerry Conway passed away at 73
Gerry Conway, co-creator of the Punisher and writer of the death of Gwen Stacy, has passed away.
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Jet @jet0.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/04/2026
On the NASA #Artemis II livestream just now: "... and the song you heard was Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan to kick off the crew's day" 🩷🐴🌈
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026
More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕
A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2026
If I were on a mission whose computer system required me to deal with Microsoft Outlook in space, I’d give up and go back to the slide rule
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 31/03/2026
Good stuff from the creator of Claude Code at the end of December
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Boris Cherny
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Dec 27, 2025
When I created Claude Code as a side project back in September 2024, I had no idea it would grow to be what it is today. It is humbling to see how Claude Code has become a core dev tool for so many engineers, how enthusiastic the community is, and how people are using it for all
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Yash Gourav Kar
@YashGouravKar1
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Dec 27, 2025
you didn't write a line of code for claude code?? (in the last 30 days)
Boris Cherny
@bcherny
Correct. In the last thirty days, 100% of my contributions to Claude Code were written by Claude Code
4:48 AM · Dec 27, 2025
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/03/2026
saw “nobody put a sequel clause in their contract” and started cackling, this rules so hard the merchandising alone is probably worth more than the payday given that half the little girls at my kids’ school were going as one of the kpop demon hunters for halloween
Kang and Appelhans are exclusive to Netflix for the next five years as they make the film, and together will be paid a guaranteed $10 million a year over that time. Their share of merchandising sales starts now — just in time for that McDonald's collab — and they'll get a royalty share on music for the sequel. (Belloni says "a murderer’s row of K-pop artists" is jostling to be part of the new movie.) They'll also help manage the franchise, consulting on merch and spinoffs like a mooted concert tour.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The best preparation for being a parent wasn't NCT classes or books; it was managing a team of software engineers. My 4 and 2 year olds are far better at playing with others than those maladjusted coders.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
1488 Jump Street
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
tweet from Yash Bhardwaj 

her: he's probably thinking about... 

marc andreessen: "           "
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Emmanuele Bassi @bassi.io · 18/03/2026
Embloggeration happened: in which I talk a bit about what I've been doing at Igalia in 2025 www.bassi.io/articles/202... #igalia #moonforge #yocto #openembedded
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halting problem
In which I talk a bit about what I’ve been doing at Igalia in 2025
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
wait, fuck, this is gorillaz
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Someone needs to send an ambulance to X
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Sherif EA @sherif.eurosky.social · 16/03/2026
I am very excited to announce our partnership @eurosky.social with @igalia.com! The partnership will accelerate the development of independent, European-operated infrastructure for the open social web, enabling developers, organizations, & communities to build new applications. cc @xanlopez.xyz
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Igalia @igalia.com · 10/03/2026
Starting soon! Marga Manterola on modern Yocto best practices — 14:45 in the Yocto Use Cases session. #EmbeddedWorld #ew26 #Yocto
Banner with Marga's talk details
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Igalia @igalia.com · 10/03/2026
🚀 We've released Moonforge, a brand new fully open-source Linux distribution based on Yocto. We aim to provide a production-ready foundation for building embedded operating systems! Read more: www.igalia.com/2026/03/09/I...
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Introducing Moonforge: A Yocto-Based Linux OS | Igalia
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers an...
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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Easily one of the top charts of all time
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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I love the idea of some hotel receptionist saying “And we’re looking forward to welcoming Lord Mandelson next week as well“ and Hoyle saying “wait what”
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Igalia @igalia.com · 23/02/2026
Igalian and @gnome.org maintainer @bassi.io was recently interviewed on the "Kernel und Kernobst" podcast where they talked at length about the GNOME project and how it's developed by hundreds of open-source developers. Find out about this and more at: www.trommelspeicher.de/podcast/spec...
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Podcast Special - An interview with Emmanuele, a developer behind the GNOME project
This is a podcast special where we had an interview with Emmanuele, a developer of the GNOME project.
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Emmanuele Bassi @bassi.io · 23/02/2026
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tante @tante.cc · 19/02/2026
It's the weirdest thing. Say these things work (they do not): Isn't the pitch that these things do shit for you while you enjoy life? But these men do not want to (or are unable to) enjoy life. They want another hit from the slop machine. They are addicts and need help.
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