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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

What it's like to be a @pidgin developer... Needing/having way too many accounts... #Pidgin #OpenSource #IRC

A screen shot of gamja showing that I have 4 distinct clients connected to libera.chat.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Best potato harvest so far. This is my second year trying to grow potatoes. #Gardening

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The "thread speed limit" on lobsters is really annoying when trying to field questions. Good thing I'm not trying to do an AMA... #Pidgin #OpenSource #Lobsters

An error message from lobsters stopping me from replying to fast that reads

1 error prohibited this comment from being saved

There were the problems with the following fields:

Comment Thread speed limit reached, next comment allowed in 1 minute.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

It's officially official, #DigitalOcean supports the #Fascists and has given up on #OpenSource at large.

Any email from the Digital Ocean Open Source Creditors Coordinator that reads...
Hello,

We’re reaching out to share an important update regarding the DigitalOcean Open Source Credits Program.

DigitalOcean has decided to sunset the Open Source Credits Program. As part of this change, we are no longer accepting new credit applications or approving credit renewals, extensions, or additional credit requests.

If you currently have Open Source Credits that have already been granted, those credits will continue to be honored according to their existing terms and conditions. No action is required for your existing credit allocation.

Additionally, the dedicated inbox for the Open Source Credits Program will stop being monitored as part of this transition. For any further questions or assistance, please submit your inquiries through our standard support channel: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/support

We appreciate your participation in the DigitalOcean Open Source Credits Program and the work you do to support the open source community. Thank you for being part of the program.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

The triage is real... With the inevitable removal of GTK2 form Distros/Package Manager next year I've taken a very hostile stance on any bugs/feature requests for Pidgin 2 and in doing so have been closing _many_ issues. Last week we still had something like […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A screen shot of our issue tracker showing that the open issue count is down to 400.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I am by no means a keyboard junkie but I got this idea this weekend and it turned out pretty well minus the bad led placement causing partial diffusion. #keyboards #rgb

My keyboard with translucent key caps with my streaming lights on.

My keyboard with translucent key caps with my streaming lights off.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Today's haul so far. Checking potatoes next 😳 #gardening

A big tray of vegetables from my garden that I harvested today

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

And to think, people have been telling me for years to use this product and it turns out that it's just full of incomplete features..

An error message from github seemingly saying you can not apply suggestions in a pull request to a line that has been deleted.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

State of capitalism in the USA.. "best customers get a dollar if you find the coupon, click on the clip button, and then give us your phone number at check out.."

A digital coupon for the grocery store for saving ONE whole dollar if you find it.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@pidgin If anyone is curious, this is the current error we get when trying to run @pidgin 3 on HaikuOS. The issue itself is in #glib, I just don't remember what it was and wasn't sure how to fix it so I didn't try :)

A screenshot of a terminal trying to run pidgin 3 from a terminal in HaikuOS failing on a gsettings issue.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Woo, HaikuOS Updated! Also if you didn't know @pidgin 3 _will eventually_ run natively on HaikuOS as they've built a #Wayland compatible API for their display environment. It doesn't work right now because of some nonsense with gsettings that I haven't tracked down yet. #HaikuOS

HaikuOS "About this system" showing the new version, at least I think this is r1beta6?

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

So I forgot I had a double cucumber growing and life has been busy and hectic so I didn't get to harvest until today and well it's over 2lbs (1kg) 😳 #gardening

A double cucumber weighing in at 2lbs 11oz.

A double cucumber weighing in at 1.223kg

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Went to pull my garbage cans out and decided this one can stay... First time I've seen a praying mantis let alone in the wild.. It didn't pay me any mind while I watered the garden but I kept an eye on it 😅 #Milwaukee #Gardening

A praying mantis chilling on my neighbor's garbage can.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

[Death of a pet] Yesterday we said goodbye to A.C. Slater our 13 year old cat. Some of you may know him from my stream where his tail would just show up in frame looking like a tentacle before I could turn the cat cam on. We would proceed to demand my […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Slater relaxed on a blanket giving me the side eye for accidentally waking him up.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

[US Health Care System Rant] So I got curious.. Why in the fuck does lorsartan (the medicine in question) cost less with good rx (no insurance) than the $10 USD I'm being charged with my $600+ USD a month market place insurance plan!?!

A screen shot from goodrx showing the price of lorsartan with no insurance to be 8.95 USD.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

One of these days I'll get a win with a single knock out ... Actually this makes me wonder if it's possible to win with 0 knockouts... #tetris99

A Tetris 99 win screen showing that I won with only 2 knock outs.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

It has begun!! My first of what should be many cucumber harvests for making pickles. I have 16 plants this year so there's going to be a LOT of pickles... #gardening

A try with my first harvest of cucumbers, 15 in total

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Reddit (AI I assume) thinks I should share the @pidgin State of the Bird in r/birdwatching... #FuckAI

A notification from Reddit suggestion I share the State of the Bird which is a project update for Pidgin instant messenger.

The text reads:

Find people interested in your post
Try sharing "State of the Bird April 2026" in r/birdwatching

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

It's hard to believe (not really) that in 2026 we still have to tell people to just ask their question instead of asking to ask which is already asking a question... #OpenSource #TodayInOpenSource

A chat log where a user ask if someone can help instead of actually asking for help with their specific issue.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

This looks even less problematic when you look at the actual plans. The library is still moving there, the DC is tiny and the biggest user of the space is self storage. And they're adding affordable housing across the street to the north […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Drawing showing the building use break down

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

Hey Programs! When watching a streamer, please don't do this... Everyone makes typos. Trying to call a stream on a typo, especially one their compiler will catch, it's a silly thing to do as it's just distracting and not helpful at all. The best part of all […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A chat message from my twitch stream where the first thing someone said in the chat ever was to point out a typo that the compiler would have caught.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

I don't usually post memes here.. but this one needs to be shared far and wide...

A meme about employees getting replaced by AI and then their boss asking an ai why no one is buying anything and it responds that no one has a job anyone and thus can't buy anything.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

It's amazing to me how far #3dprinting has come in the past 15ish years. I got my first printer in 2012 and had to babysit every print like mad. But now I can fire off full plate prints that use 8 colors printing one color at a time and my biggest concern is […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A preview a 3d printer plate that's going to print out 8 different groups of objects on a single plate without any user interaction.

The finished print after the tiles have all been glued on.

A printer doing it's thing working all all the colored pieces

The other printer printing all of the black pieces at once.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

Not sure who the hell thinks this is an acceptable amount of ice but this is the second time they've done this so I guess I'm done with Wendy's for a while...

A large cup of soda from Wendy's with ice literally filling the cup.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

Speed running a protocol plugin implementation is interesting... But this is a legit connection... At least in the sense that I've provided a email and password and gotten an API token back. I decided on Sunday night that Zulip was going to be our next […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A screen shot of a legitimately connected zulip account in pidgin 3.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

just venting here for a second... I have a decent sized feral cat colony around my house. This past weekend I took one of them to the vet because he was in bad shape. They said it was just an URI and that he was actually TNR'd by a local non profit that takes […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Bruno, a feral cat, laying on the porch cuddled up to my foot.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

I blame google news for the initial date mix up, but I should have double checked the date on the story..

A screen shot of a google news post showing an article from 2021 as being from 3 weeks ago.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

Still some work to do, but what do you all think of the new account editor I'm working on? #Pidgin #UX #UI #askfedi

A screen shot of an in development account editor for pidgin instance messenger showing basic account settings for an IRC account.

A screen shot of an in development account editor for pidgin instance messenger showing all account settings for an IRC account.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

So tired of these bullshit games that retail stores play. Why am I saving 33% when I order online and use the discount code on the item page but people in store just get effed... And this is to pick up some #Covid19 test because I'm not feeling great and my […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A Walgreens online receipt showing a $10 USD saving because I ordered online and jumped through their stupid hoops.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

The #Twitch plugin for @pidgin 3 continues to improve! We now load who you follow and add them to the contact list. We don't grab presences yet or do any persistent/caching, but we've gotta start somewhere! Luckily #AGDQ is running this week so I've been […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A screen shot of Pidgin 3 showing a contact list full of accounts that I personally follow.

A screen shot of the GamesDoneQuick channel in Pidgin 3.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

It's funny, I remember when XOrg rose from the ashed of the XFree86 project and now we've moved past it entirely... #OpenSource #XOrg #Wayland

A screen shot of apt showing packages that were automatically installed and are no longer necessary with the `xorg` package highlighted.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

It's been a long road here, but purple-spasm can now receive whispers in @pidgin 3!! This protocol plugin has a _long_ history, it was started in 2017 and it's IRC implementation became the basis for the IRCv3 protocol plugin in Pidgin 3. I picked it back a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of the first whisper received over twitch in purple 3 using the in development purple-spasm plugin.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

#IRC formatting in @pidgin 3 are being put to the test in #libera-newyears channel on @liberachat this year! We're going to add an additional more IRC message layout at some point, but it still looks pretty good right now! #Pidgin #NYE #NEWYear #Chat

IRC ANSI art of some type of very colorful bird.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

1 hour into the first night trick or treat in #milwaukee in my life time and no kiddos. A few at the other end of the block but no one came down here.. Guess I'll have to eat all this candy myself... #trickortreat #halloween

A huge bowl of full size candy bars for trick or treat.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

One of the @pidgin 3 features I'm really happy with is notifications. We kind of had this in Pidgin 2, but it was only in the UI, so protocols couldn't touch it. Now in #Pidgin 3 protocols can, which means you no longer get a popup window for an admin […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A screen shot of pidgin 3 showing 2 notifications for admin message on IRC.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

People often ask what's taking so long with @pidgin 3 and a recent review comment embodies this pretty clearly. We move API around to make it more intuitive. In doing so, we tend to surface old odd decisions that need to be addressed, especially when it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

> why remove this from the document when the vfuncs were only moved and not deleted?

There was no `set_display_name` function in purple 2 so there's nothing to migrate.

For actions, in purple 2 there was no virtual function in `PurplePluginProtocolInfo`, the actions that showed up in `Accounts -> (account)` were from `PurplePluginInfo` so it isn't a protocol migration either.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

Remember when office internet was faster than home internet..? It'd take less time for me to drive home, upload this file, and then drive back to the office. Insanity... For context, I'm uploading a virtual machine appliance to s3 for a customer to download.

An upload status for a 4.6gb file at a rate of 1.3mb/s

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