Ricardo Garcia

Yesterday we said goodbye to an amazing #XDC2026 in Toronto! 🎉 A huge thank you to the organizers and sponsors for bringing the community together once again, to everyone who connected with us, and to the incredible open source graphics community. Until next time! 👋

Final day of #XDC2026! Our colleague @garai.ca takes the stage with an exciting talk before this fantastic event comes to a close. Don't miss our last session! XDC live streaming link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5W5...

Day two of #XDC2026! Another packed day of talks, discussions, and all things #OpenSource graphics. We have an exciting demo and talks lined up by Lucas Fryzek, Karmjit Mahil, @austriancoder.bsky.social and @jasuarez.github.io. XDC live streaming link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPwe...

First day of #XDC2026! The premier #OpenSource graphics conference is underway today in Toronto. We’re excited to have four speakers José María Casanova, Eri Pazos, @rg3.name and @madeehaj.bsky.social sharing their ideas and experiences. Come say hello! Details: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tNG...

Starting my trip to #XDC2026. See you in Toronto!

Next week at XDC 2026 in Toronto, our colleagues will be presenting nine talks covering the latest in #OpenSource graphics, from graphics drivers and Vulkan to the technologies shaping the open graphics ecosystem. We’re looking forward to sharing ideas! 🎉 Details: igalia.com/2026/09/22/I... #XDC2026

In one week from now I'll be in Toronto attending #XDC2026 with a bunch of @igalia.com colleagues. This year I'll present about a memory usage problem we fixed in VK-GL-CTS. If you missed my 2025 talk, find the slides, video and transcription below. See you in Toronto! rg3.name/202609212017...

My @igalia.com colleague Danylo has written a fantastic blog post with a 5-year retrospective on #Turnip, the #OpenSource #Mesa3D driver for Adreno GPUs. It's full of details and stories, and worth a read. You can find it here: blogs.igalia.com/dpiliaiev/tu... #VR

The partial solar eclipse reminded me how absolutely indescribable experiencing totality is. Was lucky enough to see it in 2017 at the most batshit disorganized music festival in the middle of Oregon. If you ever have a chance to experience an eclipse totality, don’t miss it.

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...

Our colleague @txenoo.bsky.social worked with Google and @raspberrypi.com to bring on-device inference to the Raspberry Pi 5 using LiteRT. More information here: www.igalia.com/2026/08/12/B...

New post: PanVK Extension Sprint - Mesa 26.1 🚀 18 Vulkan extensions landed in PanVK for Mesa 26.1 - driven by DXVK/vkd3d-proton needs, DDK parity, and mesamatrix gaps. PanVK is getting to the point where you can throw a DXVK game at it and expect it to work. christian-gmeiner.info/2026-04-20-p...

New blog post: our colleague Caio worked on extending V8’s memory profiler API with a new metric: the total number of bytes allocated by an Isolate since its creation: blogs.igalia.com/weblanguages...

We're deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Alexander Morton, the voice of beloved Zoltan Chivay in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. Thank you for bringing Zoltan to life. The Continent is already missing you 💔

Next week I'll be in Barcelona attending the @khronos.org F2F Spring Meeting 2026. If you're around, come say hi! /cc @igalia.com

We're live at #EmbeddedWorld! Hall 4, Booth 4-443 — demos running all day.

Tomorrow at Embedded World! Hall 4, Booth 4-443. Demoing Moonforge — live OTA updates on RPi5 via RAUC — plus a Zephyr BLE app built entirely on upstream code, and WPE WebKit on embedded hardware. Talks: Tue 14:45 Yocto best practices, Thu 15:00 web engines for embedded. #EmbeddedWorld #ew26

Igalia is proud to announce our Coding Experience program for 2026! Open to all new programmers, students and self-learners alike, applications are invited till the 3rd of April in one or more of five areas of Open Source development. Apply now! www.igalia.com/2026/02/27/I...

We’re incredibly proud of our collaboration with @imaginationtech.com integrating a device farm into Mesa's upstream CI system to improve the testing and quality of their #OpenSource driver for PowerVR GPUs. Learn more at their blog: blog.imaginationtech.com/imagination-...

Interop 2026 has launched by announcing the focus areas for this year! The year-long cross-vendor coordination effort on improving web feature interoperability will include a bit of HTML, a dash of JS, a handful of CSS, and perhaps a surprise or two… www.igalia.com/news/interop...

Khronos is celebrating 25 years of shaping visual computing with open standards! Come reminisce with us: www.khronos.org/blog/the-khr... #khronos #anniversary

Congratulations to @bkardell.com on joining the W3C TAG! www.igalia.com/2026/02/10/I...

Linux 6.19 has been released and once again, our team delivered improvements, features, and bug fixes across different areas of the kernel.... www.igalia.com/2026/02/09/L...

Igalia’s compilers team did a ton of awesome work in 2025, and we "compiled" it all for you in a blog post! Read it here: blogs.igalia.com/compilers/20...

#Vulkanised2026 is about to start in San Diego next week. Our colleague and graphics expert Emma Anholt will present "Vulkan Debugging on Linux" on Monday at 13:00. Don't miss this talk if you are looking for #Linux tools and techniques for debugging #Vulkan application and driver issues.

Wrote a blog post about the work I've been doing at @igalia.com to implement the Temporal proposal in JavaScriptCore: blogs.igalia.com/compilers/20...

Yesterday we said goodbye to #FOSDEM2026 and we'd like to thank the organizers and volunteers that make this huge #FOSS event possible every year. Big thanks also to everyone who attended our talks and came to say hi, and for the multiple shout-outs we got in other talks. See you next year!

It's the first day of #FOSDEM2026 and you shouldn't miss our 4 talks! Our colleagues @base-art.net, Eri Pazos, @mariospr.bsky.social and @rego.bsky.social will cover #WebRTC, #WebKitGTK, #GStreamer, Interop, #MathML, Web Platform or @servo.org

We’ll be out in force at @fosdem.org '26 at the end of this week, with eight talks on a wide variety of topics—the latest on @servo.org, GStreamer work, graphics stacks, MathML interop, WebAssembly runtimes, handing out Servo stickers, and more! www.igalia.com/2026/01/26/I...

Really wishing that somebody would hire my company (@igalia.com) to standardize/implement support for import maps in web workers. I already have a draft spec PR ready and there is interest from the community, which company wants to be the hero funding pushing it forward? :)

Had a good chat on platforms w/ Ian Hamilton from UploadVR.

Year-end donations round, 2025 edition 💸 rg3.name/202512282037...

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🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats Open Source FEX Appeal: Inside Igalia's work on Steam devices @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with colleague Dhruv Mark Collins to discuss Igalia's work with Valve on the Steam devices! www.igalia.com/chats/steamy

We're in our way to Japan for a week full of knowledge sharing and discussions on cutting-edge topics at the #OSSumit Japan and the #LinuxPlumbers Conference 2025. ✈️ 🗾 You can read more about our participation in these conferences at: www.igalia.com/2025/12/05/I... (🧵 1/3)

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The latest Linux kernel release is out, and we’re proud to have helped make it what it is! Get the details: www.igalia.com/2025/12/01/L...

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I published some notes about @vulkan.org's new VK_EXT_custom_resolve extension and the work I did at @igalia.com related to it. More info here: rg3.name/202511262000...

I've written about the #xdc2025 talk explaining the work done at @igalia.com to improve the @raspberrypi.com GPU driver. blogs.igalia.com/jasuarez/202...

Really proud to see the work of my colleagues and other Valve contractors come together like this. Amazing work! And glad to put my small grain of sand in the pile with @vulkan.org CTS. 🤗

Now that this is publicly announced I can say it has been delightful to be part of the small team of contributors to FEX, bringing you x86 games to ARM64 hw - now integrated into the Steam Frame.

The Vulkanised 2026 program has been released! The 2026 program includes keynote presentations & technical talks spanning a wide range of topics that matter to everyone using Vulkan Explore the program and register today! vulkan.org/events/vulka... #vulkan #api #programming #gpu #raytracing

We're looking forward to the RISC-V Summit North America next week where Mikhail Gadelha (one of our compiler engineers) will be presenting "Unlocking 15% More Performance: A Case Study in LLVM Optimization for RISC-V". Be sure to catch his talk next Thurs riscvsummit2025.sched.com/event/28OTp/...

Linux v6.17 has been announced, here's what Igalia contributed to it... www.igalia.com/2025/10/07/L...