bicolao

What's so interesting about tiling managers? I've been using i3. But my usage is so simple (I guess) that I have just a few windows maximized in tab mode, usually just two: browser and terminal. I rarely need to split vertically. To be fair I like i3 simplicity. But I'm not really "wooed" by i3. I may be missing something?

> I misread this as AI initially ...

The japanese have it harder because "ai" means love. But perhaps "love" will be written in kanji while "AI" in katakana, so writing form is not confusing.

I'm more amazed you run the same machine for 20 years. Another 20+ years user, but I've reinstalled 5-6 times when I change laptops.

> Every time I try and learn Vulkan I end up getting confused and annoyed about how much code I need to write and give up.

Vulkan isn't meant for beginners. It's a lot more verbose even if you know the fundamentals. Modern OpenGL would be good enough. If you have to use Vulkan, maybe use one of the libraries built on top of it (I use SDL3 for example). You still have freedom doing whatever you want with shaders and leave most of resource management to those libraries.

It's 2000. Build failure was pretty much expected for any software. Probably a good idea to stay home and work through any problem. Nowadays you'll just fire up a build and go. And the build is probably finished before you're out of the door.

> I get your point, but reviewing your own PRs is a very good idea.

Yes. You just have to be in a different mindset. I look for cases that I haven't handled (and corner cases in general). I can try to summarize what the code does and see if it actually meets the goal, if there's any downsides. If the solution in the end turns out too complicated to describe, it may be time to step back and think again. If the code can run in many different configurations (or platforms), review time is when I start to see if I accidentally break anything.

fuse probably isn't a good example here because you still have to enter kernel space if i'm not mistaken, then out again to the fs driver in userspace then probably back to kernel space (block driver). fuse has many upsides, but I don't think performance is one of them.

If this is ad hoc solution, what's the "right" approach?

past? I'm still running it. If I don't, I find something is missing on the right side of my screen. I got my theme off freshmeat.net. The original source is gone now [1], so I have to copy the theme to any new laptop I have.

[1] can't find a mirror anywhere. But if anyone knows the "Industrial" theme, I'd love to know.

because it's not worth the risk of breaking plenty applications out there (or in the case of office, documents). I have heard stories of MS making changes to keep older apps working. Imagine carrying all that to a new rewrite.

It was experimental to allow the developers to tweak UI, including breaking backward compatibility if needed. But I left Git shortly after these were added. I guess nobody picked this up to finish the job (even by just removing the experimental status, since nothing has changed for years and I assume nobody complained about them).