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.

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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