I’ve been trying to get elementary features required for GUIs working with BurntSushi/xgb and XRender.

Unfortunately, things are in a miserable state and I’m just surveying the wastelands.

I’ve learnt a shitton about X11 and extensions so far.

Studying X11, Xlib, xcb, xgb, XRender. Need to load all the concepts into my head.

I’ve almost finished porting that IRCd of mine, I just need to port/write a few unit tests, rework logging and I can start using it on my domain. Also needed to write my own simple version of netcat because I was testing TCP shutdown and “The result of testing hid with telnet, OpenSSL s_client, OpenBSD nc, GNU nc and Ncat is that neither of them can properly shutdown the connection.”

After that I’ll be looking into graphical user interfaces and how to make one.

This is so backwards: the real problem is that they broke themes in GTK+ 3 by entangling it with chaotic CSS and ignoring the consequences. You can’t even get all base theme colors from the application any longer, which is one of the factors why I consider having ported my application from GTK+ 2 as a backwards step. The older version did have a stupid widget sizing model but that could be circumvented.

Here’s hoping for another, simpler GUI library for *nix to show up that isn’t a metalibrary like WxWidgets, another bloat like Qt, or messy like Tk. Or have we already decided that Elecron is the way to go now? Is there a “market” for that?

I fully intend to incorporate this into my text editor (that I only have plans for this far). Though it’d be nice to have the editor automatically detect space-alignment, e.g. before comments, and replace that with elastic tabs automatically on load and back with spaces again on save. That way sans-serif fonts will work even with the fascist gofmt.

Well, the same thing as the last time: porting my IRC daemon from C to Go. I’ve had some problems with motivation, though that has sorted itself out and now I have before me the task of rewriting about 4000 lines of fairly straight-forward “business logic” code. It’s mind-numbingly boring and fairly time-consuming.

Since this is part of an over-ambitious project where I replace most GUI/TUI applications that I use, this rewrite being a warm-up exercise for Go in a problem domain that I’m comfortable with, I am considering starting a blog-of-sorts. I’m not sure if I could keep it alive for long as one needs to remember to describe the steps he takes and put them in context for readers which, needless to say, takes its time, but also as a side effect often provides interesting insights. There’s definitely a lot to write about.

What does one use to share a stream of short updates? I don’t feel like spamming an aggregator with them would be very productive and summarizing events at fixed time intervals seems like a hassle.

I have a bunch of Cherry MX Brown tenkeyless keyboards, mostly using and fond of Filco Majestouch 2 Ninja TKL.

In X.org configuration I have this, no need for programming:

rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     cz,us,pl,ru
variant:    dvorak-ucw,,dvorak,ruu
options:    ctrl:swapcaps,grp:sclk_toggle,grp_led:scroll,compose:menu,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

I’d just like someone to resurrect old scissor-switch low-profile keyboards with the good old keycaps and make it into an external tenkeyless keyboard. In theory I could find a preserved laptop keyboard on the internet, figure out the wiring and properties and build my own electronics and case for it but that’s not a weekend job by far, not for me at least.

Continuing learning Go and rewriting my IRCd, originally a self-contained C project. The sucky part, which is rewriting the event loop on top of a different model and ensuring the entire thing including client connections shuts down correctly, seems to be almost over.

I might or might not be surprised as to how well it translates, e.g. TLS autodetection and abstracting over the two possible transports was not an issue. On the other hand, Golang cannot interrupt libc functions like getaddrinfo() or getnameinfo() by pthread_cancel()ling a dedicated worker thread, which is what I did in my C library. Should I bother suggesting it at golang-nuts@? I’m not sure if core devs would have a positive attitude towards the idea.

If you were wondering, “Řrřlog” can’t actually be pronounced.

This is a bold statement, I do quite a bit of ssh -X work, even thousands of miles distant from the server. I do very much wish ssh -X could forward sound somehow, but I certainly couldn’t live without X’s network transparency.

I can’t agree. I’ve been using my IDE (Qt Creator!) over networked X11 and it worked really well (though the VPN used to freeze and there’s no session management, so I eventually stopped). Similarly, running Firefox on servers remotely is sometimes indispensable. What’s there to miss?

The big question here seems to be: how will it make money if not by making you a product like Facebook does it? Ads?

It seems to me that a (primarily?) self-hosted, decentralized solution is the only sensible way out, and it comes with the obvious downsides: a/ people don’t like things that can’t be easily regulated, b/ it’s hard to gain a market share with this unless your social group is a bunch of nerds.

Maybe actually hanging out with your friends in real life and sharing information the old-school way, or simply engaging more in direct messaging, for which there are privacy-focused platforms, is the best choice you have. In the end, people tend to share very superficious things on Facebook and fish for attention (been there) instead of engaging you directly in a meaningful way.

What is it that you’re really missing?

More money, more health, more “side” projects done.

Long way to go but looks nice enough. Signed, author of another custom-written IRC client.

Looking forward towards a stable release of Myrddin.

Both Exceptional (work from home) and Abhorrent (stopped doing my own projects) because this scale is silly.

And proprietary driver users have the gall to reward Nvidia for their behavior by giving them hundreds of dollars for their GPUs, then come to me and ask me to deal with their bullshit for free. Well, fuck you, too.

Boy, is he mad.

Strangely enough, nVidia seems to be the only vendor pushing for HDR and DeepColor.

So, are there, say, naked children in the blockchain yet? Either they are or they will be…

Now if only it were of any use to most developers, as it seems to be tightly coupled to macOS.

No.

I’ve managed to do this, making me feel rather productive:

• a simple daemon that resets prio, ioprio and oom_score_adj for all new processes by name according to its configuration; I haven’t even tried yet whether it achieves anything, though
• a tool that automatically reruns applications e.g. when they get recompiled
• prepared an article about the desktop-tools package in which these tools are contained
• done some work on an article that discusses TUI creation for *nix terminals and discovered a few things in the process; this article is going to take a lot of time to finish, though, it seems