Cegueira ideológica e Tribalismo Muita gente repete que o pior cego é o que não quer ver, mas muito pouca gente me parece refletir a respeito do que isso quer de fato dizer. O Mark Shuttleworth fez há pouco tempo um post em seu blog que eu acho que vai no ponto exato da questão quando fala de algo que ele chama de “tribalismo“. Eu tenho chamado esse comportamento de “cegueira ideológica”, mas acho que vou adotar o termo dele, que é bem mais simples e acho que bem mais correto, porque não se trata apenas de ideologia!

Remember when I said Epiphany worked out of the box with Youtube’s WebM? Well, Google has recently decided to deny us WebM, like it did before with Wave, the Pacman doodle, and who knows what else? \o/ Wouldn’t it be nice if Google practiced what they preach? Update: so it looks like my message went through to the people who needed to see it, and they found a filtering error in the User Agent sniffing code that made it think Epiphany was a too old Safari – I’m told the change will land in Youtube soon, thanks for those paying attention, and working on this!

When I started working on WebKitGTK+ I was a web developer, writing IT applications using Python and Django, and building features for content portals running Plone (argh). Even though I was an Epiphany user ever since it was forked off Galeon, I still had to use Firefox for my work, because I couldn’t really live without Firebug. It should come as no surprise, then, that one of my first patches to WebKitGTK+ was actually making the awesome Web Inspector work in our port.

Acabei de ler nos últimos dias, finalmente, o clássico e frequentemente citado livro “Hackers”, do Steven Levy. Não há discussão sobre cultura e ética hacker que não faça pelo menos uma referência a esse livro. Poucos meses atrás a editora O’Reilly lançou uma nova edição do livro, que inclui um novo apêndice, em que o autor revê rapidamente o estado da cultura e ética hackers no ano 2010, 25 anos depois do lançamento do livro original.

Some of you may have noticed WebKitGTK+ 1.2.2 and 1.2.3 have been uploaded recently. Here’s their announcement =). A quick summary: if you’re running the 1.2.x series upgrade to 1.2.3. Here’s some information regarding 1.2.2: 1.2.2 is an update to the 1.2.x stable series; along with a lot of crash, and misc fixes the biggest changes are: 1) the inclusion of a new API from the development branch (webkit_back_forward_list_clear()), because it’s simple and will help with fixing a problem in Epiphany stable, and 2) lots of drag and drop, and clipboard related work by Martin Robinson.

Google has had a very nice idea today, to celebrate Pacman’s aniversary: they made their logo become a playable HTML5pacman. If you’re wondering why your WebKitGTK+ browser is not being able to play the game here’s why: Google is doing User-Agent sniffing and denying you the fun, sending a static image that you can click to perform a search instead of the game. If you make Epiphany or Midori identify themselves as Chrome or Firefox, the game will work.

So you probably heard about WebM, right? It’s the awesome new media format being pushed by Google and a large number of partners, including Collabora, following the release of the VP8 video codec free of royalties and patents, along with a Free Software implementation. It turns out that if you are a user or developer of applications that use the GStreamer framework, you can start taking advantage of all that freedom right away!

Lembra daquele cabo pendurado na minha rua? Pois é… nem mandar mensagem pra ouvidoria, nem passar o protocolo pra alguém falar com “conhecidos” na CEMIG parece ter ajudado. Já passou mais quase um mês e o cabo, apesar de alguém ter cortado um pedaço pra não ficar caído até a calçada, continua lá. Sugestões? =)

A CEMIG é a empresa prestadora de energia elétrica em Minas Gerais. É uma empresa de capital misto controlada pelo governo do Estado. Recentemente a CEMIG tem feito propaganda com frequência ultimamente por ter ganho grande reconhecimento no mercado financeiro como empresa que se preocupa com uso racional de energia. O slogan da campanha é “A melhor energia do Brasil”. Tudo isso me deixa, como mineiro, muito orgulhoso, mas minha experiência pessoal com a qualidade da CEMIG poderia melhorar bastante.

So you’ve seen people talking about WebKit2, perhaps have seen someone claiming it “drops support for Linux“, and you’ve been wondering what the hell that means for WebKitGTK+. Well, welcome to the preemptive Q&A section with WebKitGTK+ maintainers =D. Let’s first explore some history so we can better understand what exactly is going on. What exactly is WebKit2? Currently, when we say “WebKit” we really mean one of the ports that are built on top of WebCore using the WebKit layer.