Finally got my new Wayland Vulkan bar/panel/dock in a state where it might be useful to myself and other lunatics.

My plan is to spend my weekend using it to create a nice Wayland bar that fits my needs. I'll hopefully be able to provide some nice rice once that's done.

For anyone curious, I recommend checking out the examples, since they demonstrate things quite well:
https://github.com/chrisduerr/stele/tree/master/examples

#rust #vulkan #wayland #whydidyouwritethistheresperfectlygoodalternativesalready

nwg-hello 0.4.4

#sway #swaywm #Hyprland #Wayland #nwgshell

https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-hello/releases/tag/v0.4.4

So far as I can tell, the arguments for replacing #X11 by #Wayland are :

→ X11 is old, and computer programmers are compulsive novelty–seekers who burn down their own homes every 2—3 years on average

→ X11 does not support a small number of exotic use cases, which could reasonably be handled by specialized software

→ X11 has numerous sets of extensions which all do pretty much the same thing in subtly different ways

I just realized I won't be able to stream when I usually do tomorrow, so I'm going to try to today. It's short notice, yet again, apologies...but about 1 hour from posting time, 10am CDT / 16:00 UTC, I get started.

https://www.twitch.tv/endparen

I plan on updating with upstream #McCLIM and previewing those, then will take stock of where I want to next focus.

#CommonLisp #Lisp #Wayland #OpenGL

Decided to just make my life a little easier and use pango+cairo for text rendering, now by new Wayland bar is essentially done.

I'm an artist and a visionary.

#rust #vulkan #wayland

Windows woes pushed me to embrace Linux #kde #linux #plasma #ubuntu #wayland #windows

https://www.heymunky.co.uk/2026/04/01/windows-woes-push-to-embrace-linux/