Notices by Emmanuele Bassi (ebassi@mastodon.social)

@kaia Oh, I'm perfectly comfortable with the perma-virgin incels of /g/ to get their hate boner on me. They are a useless waste of air anyway.

Next time you decide to implement the GTK documentation generator and make it publicly available, Emmanuele, just write a memo instead

STOP DOING FREE SOFTWARE

- SOURCE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE OPEN
- YEARS OF PROJECTS yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for having the source available
- Wanted to have features for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "PAYING"
- "Yes please file BUGS. Report ANY ISSUE you found" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what users have been demanding your Attention for all this time.

"Hello I would like you to support my use case please"

They have played us for absolute fools

Ended up binging five episodes of The Apothecary Diaries in a row. It’s really anime House, M.D. set in I Can’t Believe It’s Not Imperial China™️ and with a gruff but cute anime girl

I hope Aoi Yuuki is getting a good massage after each episode, considering she’s solo carrying the entire show on her shoulders…

My last #introduction was in 2018, so let's update it:

- I'm a free and open source software developer, mainly contributing to the #GNOME ecosystem and software development platform
- I am, through no fault of my own, the maintainer of the GNOME developer documentation website
- I write the occasional app, like Amberol
- I stream my work on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/ebassi
- I still plan on finishing the History of GNOME podcast
- I build #gundam plastic models
- trans rights are human rights

Closed source software had it right: never allow direct public access to a project's issue tracker

Were I the GNOME almost-benevolent dictator for life, I'd provide a decoy public issue tracker, like Apple does

"You should never use Flatpak/Snap! It's all newfangled shit that makes Linux look like a phone!"

- iPhone: 2007
- iPhone with actual apps: mid 2008
- Android (i.e. Linux on a phone): end of 2008
- Flatpak first release: 2015
- Snap first release: 2015

If you complain about this stuff then I expect you're using release tarballs to build your software, like in the Old Days of Slackware at the very least

Plus, since it's an *early onset* form of brain rot, the "golden age" usually refers to stuff happening less than 10-15 years ago, which is ridiculous, and it's just a form of elitist gatekeeping in the most charitable of cases.

The saddest things of all in IT is the early onset brain rot that makes you look back to the past as a better age, and any new tech as something worse that should be avoided in favour of Ye Olde Solutions.

Yes, computers suck, but guess what: they always sucked, and there is no prelapsarian golden age to which you can return to.

Spoilers

Some highlights:

- cairo: +384 -41621 (still need to get rid of Autotools and GL)
- gdk-pixbuf: +5926 -13180 (dropped Autotools and a bunch of loaders)
- gi-docgen: +288646 -7048 (HTML templates are huge)
- gtk: +149732 -141668 (nearly neutral over 3 different API series)
- libepoxy: +10155 -215771 (dropped Autotools and CMake and a lot of bad commits)
- pango: +2762 -21078 (dropped Autotools)

Inspired by @brainblasted I ran a bit of script-fu on my jhbuild checkout, and found out two things:

1. I have commits in a bunch of projects that I completely forgot about
2. over the years I added 1.2mil lines of code to GNOME (and related) projects, and removed about 900k lines, which means I'm about 300k lines in debt

I aim to be code contribution neutral by 2050.