Emmanuele Bassi

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

All Systems Go! Fifty minutes until Emmanuele Bassi presents “Moonforge: Making Yocto Easy To Assemble” 11:55 CEST in the Galerie. See you there?

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"

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.

Prison?

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...

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

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

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.

this, forever

Bob Peak (1967)

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.

"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything

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.

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...

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

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

I'm still playing the originals with WINE on Linux, but you bet this gets downloaded on day 1.

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/

"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."

I don’t want to be rude but this should have made two billion dollars

2027 is going to be the year of the Windows gaming desktop

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.

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" 🩷🐴🌈

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: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

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

Good stuff from the creator of Claude Code at the end of December

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

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.

1488 Jump Street

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

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

Someone needs to send an ambulance to X

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

Starting soon! Marga Manterola on modern Yocto best practices — 14:45 in the Yocto Use Cases session. #EmbeddedWorld #ew26 #Yocto

🚀 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...

Easily one of the top charts of all time