Felix' Ramblings Felix' RamblingsIt's only Tuesday evening, but boy this is already a busy week! I am in the progress of making some (minor) changes to the site:
First of all, I have added separate "Other" page to the top-bar, which contains a contact mail (hopefully in a format which will not flood my inbox with bot messages). When I first created this website, I just wanted to have my own little corner of the Internet where I can upload stuff. It sounds weird, but I didn't actually expect anyone to actually read any of my stuff "proactively". This is my way of getting things "out of my system", doing some reflection and having a place I can point my friends to if they are asking about some of the stuff I did.
I didn't expect anyone to randomly stumble on this website on their own. So I thought if I had my mail listed I would, at most, get spam messages by crawling bots. To my surprise, not only do people in-fact (somehow) stumble on my website(s), but some also go out of their way to write me a nice message, even if I don't have any contact information listed anywhere. Now I'm starting to feel bad that people spend unnecessary effort to reach me, so hopefully that will make things a little bit easier.
All that being said, imagine my surprise when I saw that my 10 month old schizo-rant got posted on Hackernews and Lobste.rs, which resulted in a total of >200 comments. I have no idea who posted my shit to these platforms and how they stumbled upon it in the first place. I certainly didn't expect anyone to seriously engage with a wall of text written by me. From what I can tell, I managed to basically get responses covering a wide range from "I agree" to "you are part of the problem" [0]. I still stand by what I said, but it's very interesting to see the various takes and responses nonetheless.
This made me wonder whether I should have an "about me" section on my site as well. To be clear, I don't think I'm a particularly interesting person (I'm interesting in the same way that car crashes are interesting), but I feel like I mislead some of these commenters. Or to put it differently: I'm not sure people would spend the same amount of effort responding to my ramblings if they knew that the author is some 25 year old dumb fuck with barely any professional experience (which, of course, doesn't stop me from having strong opinions) [1]. Funnily enough, when I initially created this website (not sure if it was already "public" or just during the prototype stage), I already had an "about" page, which I decided to remove later (because if I point my friends to the website, they don't need an about page). At least that made it easy to add a page like that back, so maybe I will extend that page in the future.
I did get a request about supporting Atom / RSS feeds (again, did not expect that, blah blah) - I will work on that and place it in the "Other"-page later. Today I got sidetracked by my system first crashing, and then completely refusing to boot. To keep a long story short (I did not want to spend my freetime with this, but here we are):
I could have saved myself a bunch of time if the RAM-LED lit up instead of the CPU-LED. Unlucky. A faulty RAM-stick in this economy is also unfortunate (especially because I have to drop a second stick to get dual channel memory to work now), but at least I still have full performance with 16GB of RAM.
It's getting way too late, so I will end this post here.
[0]: And someone took the time to clear up my confusion about wl_display_roundtrip() and wl_display_dispatch - Thank you!
[1]: I also think that my site was posted to fuel the ongoing "Wayland vs X11 fight", which I honestly have zero interest in participating in. I was simply venting my frustrations about the API / program design. I have no strong opinions (and not even knowledge) about the internals of these two projects, and I also wouldn't be daily driving Sway if I felt that strongly about the project as a whole.
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