emersion @emersion@octodon.social

sway 1.0-alpha.4 released:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.0-alpha.4

Input handling in wlroots

https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/17/Input-handling-in-wlroots.html

>You can’t just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis.

From the classic read:

http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thenightwatch.pdf

Simple, correct, fast: in that order

https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/09/Simple-correct-fast.html

Displays cannot have fractional pixels therefore fractional scaling is a lie and you are dumb

Complicated software breaks

Reminder that you should add this to .ssh/config:

AddKeysToAgent yes

Which will ssh-add keys on the fly as you use them to SSH into things

In terms of commits and lines of code sway's initial commit to 0.15 < 0.15 to 1.0

0.15 to 1.0 is nearly 4,000 commits from over 50 contributors

New blog post: How to implement a basic ActivityPub server https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/

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I /really/ need to add http://n-gate.com to my rss reader because it’s *so good*. This is the best description I’ve ever seen of the Microsoft acquisition of Github.

Please don't write JavaScript that fucks with scrolling

Just don't

please

sway 1.0-alpha.3 is now available:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.0-alpha.3