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I've never actually written a blog before. ptrtoliam.dev/blog/wlclient-…

xdg-session-management finally merged, after 6 fucking years. This is a protocol that actually everyone wanted, the reason it wasn't merged up until now? I'm not really sure.

@e0syn @lushptr

@lushptr @ptrToLiam yes this is about you two

everyone who has ptr in their name ily

@e0syn @lushptr '@' is the pointer dereference operator of Xitter, lol

related repo with 2 approaches writing a wayland client without libwayland: github.com/ptrToLiam/wl-s…

I've never actually written a blog before. ptrtoliam.dev/blog/wlclient-…

@eddieprograms It is written, and released. x.com/ptrToLiam/stat…

@ptrToLiam Yes please

Decided to try writing a blog post and realized it's been quite a while since I've written any sizable text.

@NewAgeRetroNerd I'd rather try and fail than not try at all.

Be honest, do you fear the fall?

Use tools to extend your reach, not to replace your brain.

@GarrettPetersen I mean... obviously. You need to have a planet for the gameplay to take place on. Otherwise the gameplay is just floating in the void with no oxygen.

Every indie game dev knows that before you decide on your game's mechanics, you need to create a complete globe simulation with climate, cloud formation, precipitation, a water table, astronomically correct stars, planets, and moon.

@gnukeith Since when is '06 old?? I'm '03...

I JUST OPENED THIS APP WHY I AM BEING VIOLATED HELLO!!?!?! x.com/Shitpost_2048/…

I don't see the problem. I'm sure the requirements doc said: "User must be able to drag a file onto the fonts pane. While hovering, a large red 'do not drop here' symbol centered in an unthemed gray box should interpolate over to the upper right corner of the drop area. The gray box should be flush with the right edge of the drop area, but should remain unaligned off the top edge by seven pixels. The cursor should then change to the background-wait cursor for approximately one second, then change back. The entire application should now close spontaneously, and the cursor should switch to the standard add-a-copy cursor indefinitely. When the user finally releases the mouse button, the cursor can revert to normal, but no action should be taken." The devs crushed it on this one. I have no idea why you're complaining.

@haydendevs so many levels available to descend through

@ptrToLiam there really is levels to the larp

look at all this larp

Genuinely if you're a new person on Linux or someone developing on Linux avoid gnomeshit.

That's literally just GNOME btw. Everyone who doesn't work on GNOME hates them, including other Wayland developers. They're the main reason why development is so slow.

@Flanz111 @bee_fumo You can pair hyprland with something like noctalia shell or dank material shell and not have to worry about manually configuring the wm much at all.

@bee_fumo What should a gamer use, KDE is unstable as fuck for me(it literally broke 3 times already, been using it for 1 month), GNOME is tablet DE and I cba using hyprland to play my games...

@sduck378 Last time I tried to use GLFW at all on wayland, it didn't work. I ended up just building it for X11 and relying on Xwayland.

the fact that glfw's getmonitorcontentscale straight up doesn't work with fractional scaling on wayland and you have to create your window with a dummy size then use getwindowcontentscale and then resize the window to the size you actually want

I feel that people who are bad at coding are more bullish on AI. And this explains a lot.

@_forg__ I started the project nearly 2yrs ago and, in the span of a few months, got it kinda working but didn't quite understand why and just left it alone for a while. Returned to it recently, with a much better understanding, made it simpler, better. Am actively working on it again.

@_forg__ I'm basically putting together the resources I would have liked to have when I started my current project, lol.