Julian Sparber
Developer, tinkerer, hacker at heart
Currently living in Bologna, Italy. I’m an avid Free Software user and supporter. I contribute to the GNOME Project. In my free time, I like to work on different personal software, hardware, and web projects.
Check out my Blog, and my projects on GNOME Gitlab and Github. You can send me an email, or follow me on Mastodon.
Some Highlights
Over the past years I wrote multiple blog posts and I did talks about my work and topics I'm interested in. I collected some highlights here.
Understanding GNOME Shell’s focus stealing prevention
Post about demystifying an important feature of GNOME Desktop.
Read it on the Development blog for GNOME Shell and Mutter
What's new in notifications
Talk about the highlights of my work for the GNOME Sovereign Tech Fund grant.
Watch my talk at Berlin miniGUADEC 2024
Notifications in 46 and beyond
Post about my work on modernizing the notification stack for the Linux desktop.
Read it on the Development blog for GNOME Shell and Mutter
The matrix-rust-sdk: One SDK to rule them all
Co-presented a talk about the Matrix rust SDK and how I used it to built a fully end-to-end encrypted matrix client for GNOME.
Watch my talk at FOSDEM 2022
Getting Fractal up to speed
Post about why the only way forward for Fractal is a rewrite.
Read it on my blog
Digitizing a analog water meter
Post about a small university project that uses OpenCV to track water consumption
Read it on my blog
Teleport: Local filesharing app
Talk about my experience creating my first GNOME app using C and following the GNOME HIG.
Watch my talk at FOSDEM 2018
The magical box in my body
Talk about personal life and the problem that medical devices are considered magical devices.
Watch my talk at SFSCON 2017