crypticwyrm

My thoughts on Svelte - The magical disappearing UI framework

A few months ago I've made a Mastodon account (that I haven't really been using since I tried to stay off social media and focus on work for a while, and I also...

iftool - Live Interactive Fiction Development Environment

I've been playing around with ideas for interactive fiction creation tools for many years, even more so when multiple choice interactive fiction, the digital eq...

Do you use the Brave browser on Linux? Make your voice heard to make Widevine support a priority

Linux users of the privacy focused Open Source Brave browser have been asking about Widevine support since at least 2016, but even in the new Chromium based ver...

Flare - "Insanely Fast Vector Animation for Apps, Games and Web" announced at Flutter Live

The Flutter Live conference was yesterday, a conference all about Google's Flutter UI toolkit for Android and iOS (and soon for desktop and web) using Google's ...

Movim - Federated Open Source social media platform welcomes Tumblr refugees

Tumblr recently announced they will ban all adult content from their platform starting December 17th, a move that has surprised many people because Tumblr has b...

Microsoft releases WPF, Windows Forms and WinUI for .NET Core as MIT licensed Open Source

One thing that was still missing from the Open Source release of .NET via .Net Core was an open source version of Microsoft's GUI projects WPF, Windows Forms an...

How to write software if you're blind

As a programmer I stare at a screen almost all day every day and have done so almost my entire life, starting at age 5 with playing games and then moving on to ...

Cool Retro Term - A terminal emulator with retro CRT look for macOS and Linux

Ever wanted to experience what is was like playing the Zork text adventure back in the day? Modern computers just don't give you that experience that an old CRT...

Rumor: Microsoft is working on Chromium based replacement for Edge

The blog Windows Central reports that sources have told them Microsoft is working on a Chromium based replacement for Microsoft's Edge web browser, with the cod...

Flutter for desktop announced, a competitor to Electron?

Flutter is a great tool from Google to write native apps that run on both iOS and Android. Flutter apps are written in Dart, a language that is so similar to Ja...

Evaluating the Rust Programming Language: I don't like Rust so I'm learning it

I've decided to take a deeper look at Rust by working through the official book and writing a few small applications. My first thought when I saw Rust a few yea...

The Google Cemetery - A list of dead Google projects and why they were shut down

Google has become a bit infamous for killing off their projects. Especially the shutdown of Google Reader hit Google's brand hard in my opinion. It didn't have ...

Spectre-V2 mitigation in Linux Kernel 4.20 RC & 4.19.2 can make Linux on Intel CPUs significantly slower

If it wasn't clear before, Spectre & Meltdown, the security issues that effect mostly Intel CPUs but also to a much lesser degree other CPUs like ARM and AMD, a...

Copy Paste Grab, my first fully native Linux app in the elementary OS AppCenter, GPL3 Open Source

I've written an article a little over three weeks ago describing my experience while developing my first fully native GTK3 app for Linux, with tips and resource...

Steem Observatory is now on Github, Open Source under the MIT license

Source code repository: https://github.com/cryptowyrm/steemobservatory As promised, Steem Observatory is now on Github, Open Source under the MIT license, follo...

Shockolate - Cross platform SDL port of System Shock from the creator of Delver

While I was checking out the recent open sourcing of Delver's graphics engine and level editor (3D dungeon crawler with pixel graphics), I stumbled upon another...

FeedReader - A modern and native GTK3 desktop RSS reader for Linux

When Google Reader died, in some sense RSS died with it. You used to see little RSS icons on every blog, RSS support was built into web browsers, but now it's g...

Golua - Microsoft open sources Lua 5.3 engine written in Go

There are a few Lua implementations written in Go already, but Microsoft found none that target Lua 5.3, so they set out to develop their own as MIT licensed Op...

sr.ht (pronounced Sir Hat) - Open Source software forge goes public alpha, developers fall in love at first sight

sr.ht is a so called software forge, a suite of applications for software developers to deal with source code management, issue tracking, continuous integration...

Columns for Steem Update - Small design changes, new tight layout setting

It's been quite a few months since the last Columns for Steem update in March, but I've started working on it again after Open Sourcing it two days ago, so here...