For #ScreenshotSaturday I have a small UI widget update to share: the incoming message monitor on the top left column.
Basically, it takes the timestamps of new messages in the log from my text-based browser game prototype (Blasphemess), and then it represents visually how many messages there are and how recently they appeared. It updates in real-time, and because it's a log-scaled X-axis, it can range from 1 second ago to 10 hrs ago with clarity for the player.

The intent is to allow players to understand at a glance if they are dealing with new messages coming in actively, or if they are looking at old messages, since some players may be logging in once a day, and others may sit there actively for hours at a time.

The widget is user-configurable, here they are split into 3 streams: combat, misc. and speech monitors, but there's also a combined monitor variant too.

RE: https://mastodon.art/@JenJen/115828193398319704

I've used Linux for my whole life, but I've grown more jaded since I started working in the tech sector (I tried to avoid tech to do real work).

There are some ways to make linux more approachable, but it's still the same fundamental issue with any specialisation.
Tools, skills, etc. get complicated and we SHOULD be communal, it offloads so much burden when you don't have to do everything alone.

That means giving people grace, supporting people, and being welcoming.
I don't think everyone in the linux community needs to change, nor do I think linux needs to stay complicated.
We just need more helpful, welcoming people, and less of the dictating "I'm going to teach you in the way I learn best" and more "What way works for you to use this?" listening.

Because not everyone learns the same way, or wants to know deep technical lore.
Most people want to DO SOMETHING and like mentioned in these threads: computers are just a necessary evil to accomplishing that something.