air @air@tech.lgbt
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Queer gamedev in the UK.
In a constant state of not knowing what I'm doing with my life.
Joined Oct 2020
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since I became a software engineer all my work has been queer coded
Here's my little #zig sideproject: a GIF search app in #gtk!
https://codeberg.org/atoft/Reactions
It went pretty smoothly working with GTK4, apart from a few things being awkward because of not using the Meson build system. Definitely seems like there's potential in using Zig for GNOME apps, even without any bindings.
I think I'm done with this project for now, but I could clean it up and try to get it on Flathub some time if there's any interest.
Well, I made it! Going to be weird being in my own place after I ended up staying with family for the past year due to *reasons*
I'm moving tomorrow 😮 I'm going to be back in Brighton for the first time in a while
continued Linux + Zig rambling, screenshots, ec
Not sure this app is particularly useful, but it's been pretty fun to work on so far 😊
continued Linux + Zig rambling
Rather, I can put a file on the clipboard, but every program I've tried interprets it as a string URI, which is not super useful.
continued Linux + Zig rambling
So although the clipboard is seemingly unable to handle an animated gif, sending a file by drag and drop does work. I'm not clear on why these two things are so different.
My fun little gif app has hit the roadblock that it's seemingly impossible to get a gif onto the clipboard on Linux 😭
Zig programming
For now I still feel like I'm missing out on destructors (or something like Rust's drop trait) to allow implementing higher level memory management types. As it stands there's no way to communicate ownership of memory returned from a function, besides documentation.
Enjoying writing Zig code so far. I find it makes me think about memory allocations a lot more than the equivalent code in "modern" C++, which feels like extra friction but is probably resulting in a better program
Someday I will toot again 🤔
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The eighth annual international Gender Census 2021 is now open until 10th March!
https://smartsurvey.co.uk/s/gendercensus2021
It's for anyone whose genders (or lack thereof) aren't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and the results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
Been watching It's A Sin. It's good so far but really bleak
need to be more gay on the internet
Linux app development
Any #librem5 folks know how quick the GPS fix is (or specifically whether A-GPS works on the Librem)?
So far a big limitation in making a location based app on PinePhone is how painfully long GPS takes, although I've seen some workarounds that I need to try.
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We are absolutely thrilled to announce that @PINE64 is releasing a Mobian Community Edition of the #pinephone! This is a major milestone for our project, which started less than a year ago as a way to bring Debian to this
mobile device!
10$ of each device sold will be donated to @mobian. See more soon about this on our blog at
https://blog.mobian-project.org
Reached level 100 Ring Fitness today 😁
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it's a good day to be non binary
- Pronouns
- he/him or they/them
Queer gamedev in the UK.
In a constant state of not knowing what I'm doing with my life.
Joined Oct 2020
