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Achievement unlocked: today someone at work posted a link to a website in German and I just casually read it.

Scrolling window managers are trending now.

Yet another thing that makes me slightly annoyed I didn't go all the way with implementing Userland like 5-6 years ago. It scrolled its tiles; it's there in the demo. If I ever get back to that project, by the time I do it, all of its ideas will be old hat by then. But hey, I'm glad people use them now (I'm not saying they took my ideas of course, it's just convergent evolution).

That's why having ideas is not enough. You gotta put them into action.

Hisham 3d ago

Paul Biggar 3d ago

Iran is the 5th country that Israel has attacked this year

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Hisham 3d ago

🇩🇪 24. Woche - meine erste Witze auf Deutsch
#meinjahraufdeutsch

Hisham 3d ago

pessoas de #PortoAlegre:

qual é o provedor menos-pior pra internet caseira atualmente, Claro, Vivo, Tim? (tem outras opções?)

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Hisham 4d ago

htop's visuals was also very centered around its color scheme. I picked cold colors deliberately, focusing of cyan (because I like it) and green (for that Matrix-y look; it was 2005 after all, and I wanted to use a UI like the ones we saw in movies; top circa 2005 looked like an 80s bank terminal). Hot colors only appeared in the htop UI very sparingly, as red accents ("red alert!").

Seeing other top-like tools use the same colors made me feel like "I made it" as a dilletante graphic designer.

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Hisham 4d ago

My artform of choice has always been music, but amusingly enough a friend once called me a "visual" person and I think that comment wasn't too off the mark.

Ultimately, I exercised my visual muscles through software. I always paid attention to colors, and thinking about this made me think of how I centered the GoboLinux visual identity around its palette back in the day (2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060218213031/http://www.gobolinux.org/ ). It was weird seeing that color scheme become a tech cliché for startups 10-15 years later.

GoboLinux - the alternative Linux distribution

Hisham 4d ago

I just saw screenshots of the Amiga classic "Another World" zip through my timeline (https://mastodon.social/@scummvm@manitu.social/114670326936528377)

and it really drove home to me how distinctive the _color palette_ is in that game. That game is praised for its art style and I think people most often mean the shapes, but the colors play a part that is just as important into building its aesthetic.

Hisham 5d ago

Were you ever greeted by the "Caret Browsing" dialog box after misclicking F7?

Yes, I have

60.9%

No, what are you talking about

32.6%

I use caret browsing and I swear I'm human

6.5%

Poll ended at Jun 14 at 1:55pm.

Hisham 6d ago

Niko Jun 10

-funsafe-math-optimizations
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︀︀fun AND safe math optimizations? sign me up!

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