Wesley Moore @wezm@mastodon.social

Hello all. My new self hosted Pleroma server seems to be working well so I’m going to make that my primary account. Follow @wezm for future toots.

https://decentralised.social/wezm

Following on from my post, "A Tiling Desktop Environment", this weekend I built a new website to document my thinking and research as I consider the comments received, try out suggestions, and look into the state of open source desktop environments. It's called Desktop Institute. You can find it at https://desktop.institute/

Hello all. My new self hosted Pleroma server seems to be working well so I’m going to make that my primary account. Follow @wezm for future toots.

https://decentralised.social/wezm

Following on from my post, "A Tiling Desktop Environment", this weekend I built a new website to document my thinking and research as I consider the comments received, try out suggestions, and look into the state of open source desktop environments. It's called Desktop Institute. You can find it at https://desktop.institute/

I set up a Pleroma instance at https://decentralised.social/ my account there is @wezm I'm still testing it out before migrating fully but feel free to follow that account.

Ordered a Raspberry Pi Zero today to do some experimentation running my Rust stenography engine on the Pi and have it act as a keyboard. Ultimately it would be good to run it on a microcontroller but first steps first. I’m thinking I might try using NetBSD as the OS. #stenography #NetBSD #rust

I think I’ll try GNOME with PaperWM. I tried KDE on this laptop on the weekend and no windows would show up!? There were entries in the task bar but no visible windows. #Linux

Using a laptop that is sometimes connected to an external display with Awesome is killing me. Runtime errors from awesome, external display not working somethings, display manager (lightdm) crashes taking out the whole session blaaargh 🙁

Hello Reason React Native https://reasonml-community.github.io/reason-react-native/en/blog/2019-06-17-hello-reason-react-native/

GNOME 3.32 is awesome, but still needs improvements in key areas – Uncertain Jatan https://jatan.blog/tech/gnome-3-32-is-awesome-but-still-has-key-areas-for-improvements/

Wondering why mutter vendors forked versions of clutter and cogl 🤔

In my GTK travels last night I also discovered the broadway GTK backend. It renders GTK apps via a server in the browser. Here it is showing a quite responsive and faithful rendition of gedit. For more info check out the main developers blog: https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/

TIL mutter depends on zenity (a command line tool that generates Gtk dialogs), which in turn depends on webkit2gtk. Seems a little excessive but I suppose if you assume both dependencies are part the wider platform and would be installed anyway it makes sense to make use of them.

Trying out KDE + Kröhnkite

Commentary from GitHub’s Semantic project on why they use Haskell. I liked the part pictured — it’s a pretty compelling sales pitch. https://github.com/github/semantic/blob/master/docs/why-haskell.md

Apple to stop shipping Ruby, Python, and Perl in future releases. “Future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by default”. Native binaries FTW 😉 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes/macos_10_15_beta_release_notes