A new chapter
After sixteen years at Collabora, I'm moving on: stepping down as maintainer of WirePlumber and starting a business focused on software engineering in the age of AI.
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4 posts, newest first.
2026
2025
Customizing WirePlumber’s configuration for embedded systems
Recently, I had the opportunity to work with a customer that required customization of WirePlumber’s configuration for use in their embedded Linux system. Oftentimes, people are confused about how to customize WirePlumber for their use case. I thought I’d take this opportunity to discuss how it was configured in this particular case and why.
2024
What is going on with WirePlumber?
I’ve been quiet about WirePlumber for a significant amount of time. It was back in 2022 when after a series of issues were found in its design, I made the call to rework some of its fundamentals in order to allow it to grow. I mentioned this in the Collabora blog at the time. And long story short, the year now is 2024 (time flies, who knew?!).
2023
Thoughts on PipeWire 1.0 and beyond
PipeWire 1.0 was released last week. This is a major milestone in a long journey that I had the opportunity to be a part of and I am grateful for it.