Ricardo Garcia

@rg3.name

Open Source Developer at Igalia. Gamer and FOSS enthusiast. He/Him. Opinions expressed here may not reflect the views of my employer. @rg3@mastodon.online on Mastodon.

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...

PanVK Extension Sprint: Mesa 26.1

Last week marks the Mesa 26.1 branch point, and I wanted to take a moment to look back at what happened on the PanVK front. Spoiler: it was a busy one. The landscape PanVK - the Vulkan driver for Arm ...

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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 💔

Black-and-white screenshot from The Witcher 3 of Zoltan Chivay with his arms crossed. The dwarf character has a big bushy beard and small spiky mohawk. The edge of the image is outlined by a thin gold frame.

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

Our booth at Embedded World, Hall 4. White booth walls with "igalia is open source" branding in colorful text and "web, standards, for everyone" labels. Left wall has a monitor and the Moonforge demo station with hardware diagrams. Back walls display logos of open-source projects Igalia contributes to, including Servo, Vulkan, Chromium, WebKit, RISC-V, GStreamer, Wayland, and more. White meeting table with chairs in the foreground.

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...

Igalia 2026 Coding Experience Open for Applications | Igalia

Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers an...

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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-...

Imagination GPUs Enter Mesa CI

Imagination integrates its GPUs into Mesa CI for robust, automated testing and improved driver stability with nightly runs and pre-commit checks. ===

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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...

Interop 2026 Focus Areas Announced | Igalia

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...

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#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.

#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.

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!

Collage of Igalians presenting at FOSDEM 2026. From top to bottom and, in each row, from left to right: Eri Pazos, Andy Wingo, Chema Casanova, Marga Manterola, Mario Sánchez, Philippe Normand, Manuel Rego and Juan Suárez.

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...

Igalia at FOSDEM ’26 | Igalia

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...

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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? :)

Support import maps in workers by nicolo-ribaudo · Pull Request #10858 · whatwg/html

This patch started as a conversation with @guybedford. I tried writing some spec for one of the potential approaches discussed in WICG/import-maps#2. This PR is not actually ready as I have not fin...

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