Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I wish multi-window applications were a thing again, particularly with web apps. Instead of cramming all the UI on a single screen I'd love to have floating bits that I could dock among all my other windows.

See, I'd do the shitposting account if the Mastodon web UI made it less annoying to switch accounts. :P

My friend mentioned that the Gideon Fhe Ninth series is related to #Homestuck and now I can't unsee it.

I'm reading Harrow the Ninth and they're literally in a similar scenario as Homestuck with ghosts and drama

BTW, if anyone is looking for a #gig to get @agregore published across some of the major platforms, I'd love to chat.

Ideally you'll have published an Electron app to either Windows/Mac OS/Ubuntu/AUR.

Boosts appreciated.

https://github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregore-browser/issues/217

#jobs #windows #mac #ubuntu #aur #electron

The hardest problem in computer science is getting any of your dependencies to compile cross platform. The second hardest is app distribution across said platforms. 😜

Jeeze. I wish there was a tool or service out there to publish apps to all the major #linux package managers. I really dread having to learn like six package manager systems and create scripts to convert my app to them in order for users to be able to load it. 😭

I wanna make a fedi server which leans heavily on #p2p on the server side. E.g. instead of duplicating media locally all the time, it can upload it to #IPFS and have a way to resolve the media URL to a p2p URL so that clients can load it from cache or the network. This would combine with the cache pruning of IPFS so that the instance's size is bounded and unused media gets purged as part of garbage collection.

Very thankful that people exist that can do maintenance on servers for reasonable prices.

I've been using etke.cc for all my #matrix stuff and they're great. It'd cost me many times more of my time to do the stuff they can get done.

My new years resolution is to treat more online stuff as pull based and just browse once a while

Thinking about this blog post I never published: https://blog.mauve.moe/posts/stripped-down-browsers.md

Might be cool to revisit it (before I was looking from a Node.js approach, now I'm not sure).

Honestly, I think it might be worthwhile to stop worrying about getting native 2D UIs working cross platform using "native UI elements" and jump straight to 3D rendering with accessibility API integration. 🤷

So far I've only managed to get FLTK and libui working.

FLTK is the one that doesn't handle native styles for some reason. They advertise that it's using native UI libraries, and it has a thing for theming, but it just gives me the default GTK style on Linux. 🙃

QT seems to be the most "cross platform", but it's environment is huge and full of corpo-ware.

I'd love to move past the "using entire web browsers for UI" mode of app development, but it's hard.

People love to complain about the web and how it's so awful and bad, but I'm looking at making a cross platform GUI which uses native elements, and the stuff I've tried either doesn't actually use native UI elements and styling or doesn't support basic stuff like scrollable areas.

Libui seemed super promising (trying it in #rust), but literally I can't make scrolling text with it. 🙃