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Simon Ser

emersion@hachyderm.io

<p>I write open-source software.</p>

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    In 2024 someone posted a bounty for a new feature in hydroxide (a ProtonMail bridge). It was a while since I&amp;#39;ve tried bounties, so at first I considered seeing if that would prompt high-quality, reviewer-friendly patches. After thinking about it for a bit, I&amp;#39;ve decided to reject the bounty: drive-by contributors aren&amp;#39;t what the project needs, money is likely to foster a toxic environment due to failed expectations, and maintainer pressure would increase. These few last m...

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    Sway 1.12 has been released! https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.12

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    Display Next Hackfest is over! This edition was fantastic, I was super happy to meet up with display folks (greybeards and newcomers alike), and we got a lot of patches written and volleyed betwen kernel and compositor devs. Of course, with Hackers (1995) in the background.

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    TIL about Microsoft Comic Chat, an IRC client from 1996 https://github.com/microsoft/comic-chat

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    Yay, my Mesa MR to add support for querying the type of an EGL device has landed! https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/40616

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    I&amp;#39;ve added a whole bunch of DRM YUV pixel formats to pixfmtdb! I&amp;#39;m not too far from covering all DRM formats, currently I&amp;#39;ve described three quarters of these (110 out of 148). Example: https://pixfmtdb.emersion.fr/DRM_FORMAT_P010

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    I&amp;#39;ve added pagination to drm_info output: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/emersion/drm_info/-/merge_requests/118

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    We&amp;#39;ve launched a new website for Goguma :) https://goguma.im/

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    Goguma v0.9 has been released! https://codeberg.org/emersion/goguma/releases/tag/v0.9.0

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    meri has added an upload button, loading indicator and cancel button to gamja, the Web IRC client! https://codeberg.org/emersion/gamja/pulls/211

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    The Goguma IRC mobile client now supports reactions! (This requires a modern server supporting IRCv3 client message tags, and is only enabled when the server allows reactions.)

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    wlroots v0.20 has been released! https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases/0.20.0