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  2. date: 2020-02-15
  3. layout: post
  4. title: Status update, February 2020
  5. tags: ["status update"]
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  8. Today I thought it'd try out something new: I have an old family recipe
  9. simmering on the stove right now, but instead of beef I'm trying out impossible
  10. beef. It cooked up a bit weird — it doesn't brown up in the same way I
  11. expect of ground beef, and it made a lot more fond than I expected. Perhaps the
  12. temperature is too high? We'll see how it fares when it's done. In the
  13. meanwhile, let's get you up to speed on my free software projects.
  15. First, big thanks to everyone who stopped by to say "hello" at FOSDEM! Putting
  16. faces to names and getting to know everyone on a personal level is really
  17. important to me, and I would love FOSDEM even if that was all I got out of it.
  18. Got a lot of great feedback on the coming plans for SourceHut and aerc, too.
  20. That aside, what's new? On the Wayland scene, the long-promised Sway 1.3^W1.4
  21. was finally released, and with it wlroots 0.10.0. I've been talking it up for a
  22. while, so I won't bore you by re-listing all of the cool stuff in this release -
  23. it'll suffice to say that I think you'll enjoy it. The related tools —
  24. swayidle, swaylock, swaybg — all saw releases around the same time. The
  25. other release this month was scdoc 1.10.1, which was a simple patch release.
  26. Beyond releases, there's been some Wayland development work as well: wev
  27. received a simple bugfixes, and casa's OpenGL-based renderer rewrite has been
  28. completed nicely.
  30. aerc progresses nicely this month as well, thanks to the support of its many
  31. dedicated contributors. Many bugfixes have landed, alongside contextual
  32. configuration options — so you can have different config settings, for
  33. example, when you have an email selected whose subject line matches a regex. A
  34. series of notmuch patches should be landing soon as well. himitsu has also seen
  35. slow progress — this pace being deliberate, as this is security-sensitive
  36. software. Several bugs have been fixed in the existing code, but there are a few
  37. more to address still. imrsh also had a little bit of improvement this month,
  38. as I started down the long road towards properly working UTF-8 support.
  40. SourceHut improvements have also landed recently. I did some work shoring up our
  41. accessibility standards throughout the site, and SourceHut is now fully
  42. complaint with the WCAG accessibility guidelines. We now score 100% on standard
  43. performance, accessibility, and web standards compliance tests. SourceHut is the
  44. lightest weight, most usable forge. I recently fixed a bug report from a Lynx,
  45. user, too 😉 In terms of feature development, the big addition this month is
  46. support for attaching files to annotated git tags, so you can attach binaries,
  47. PGP signatures, and so on to your releases. More cool SourceHut news is coming
  48. in the post to sr.ht-announce later today.
  50. This month's update is a little bit light on content, I'll admit. Between FOSDEM
  51. and taking some personal time, I've had less time for work this month. However,
  52. there's another reason: I have a new secret project which I've been working on.
  53. I intend to keep this project under wraps for a while still, because I don't
  54. want people to start using it before I know if it's going to pan out or not.
  55. This project is going to take a lot of time to complete, so I hope you'll bear
  56. with me for a while and trust that the results will speak for themselves. As
  57. always, thank you for your support, and I'm looking forward to another month of
  58. awesome FOSS work.