the dude abides

Decided to scratch a "design a wallpaper" itch on Friday. It's the first wallpaper I've created in a very long time but people seemed to like the first cut on Twitter on Friday so I went ahead and created a few more colours and sizes.
It's inspired from a pretty standard t-shirt design and so it's no surprise most people wanted a t-shirt of it! I might create a few mobile size variants if I get some time, but for now here are the links by size, with each archive containing all the...

Finally, after nearly three cycles, we now have zero pixel window borders and larger shadows for the active window:
Huge thanks go to Sam Spilsbury for generally being awesome but more specifically for adding the invisible-window-borders and state-dependant-shadows to unity-window-decorator and also the ability to tweak these through the theme....

Mark's keynote at UDS spoke about one of the biggest changes to happen in Ubuntu since it's inception: Unity as the default desktop. As the technical lead for the project, I wanted to explain some of the technical changes that will occur this cycle to...

I was going through one of my old computer's hard-drives recently and found lots of mockups from a couple of years back of GNOME applications I had done in my spare time. I was inspired and opened up Inkscape to see if I could still come up with anything...