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git-pages is still pre-1.0 but i think it could get to that point not too far from now

✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

it's not really possible to pack up native dependencies in a way where they're executed in-place from a zip file, but since we publish Windows redistributables (and will maybe publish other kinds in the future), you don't _have_ to

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

other idea is to make it so that you can pack an application (not an applet) into e.g. `BurningTool.glasgow` file, which then you can double-click or drag onto the Glasgow icon, or run `glasgow python BurningTool.glasgow`. this would be just a zip file with a `__main__.py` (maybe even a wheel […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

now that we have Qt integrated with #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer, one thing that would be desirable (but probably won't happen just yet) is a GUI entry point, i.e. an application you can launch to interact with most any applet the main blocker for this is that applets' configuration is currently […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

dealing with the average open source application build/install guide that involves like ten different steps is unplesasant. people filter out on every single step. this is how I end up doing things like "shipping the Yosys toolchain as a Python package"

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

for example, Glasgow Interface Explorer for Windows ships with every dependency included, works on everything since Win7, and isolates itself from the system environment to the extent it's possible. it's a bit more work, yes. but the end users never have to deal with shit like "Python for […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

partly as a result of this, my software is frequently described as "the only thing that 'just works'" or variations on it. through the combination of controlling what i can, and removing as many pieces that i can't control, i end up with a very predictable result

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

in retrospect, a huge chunk of my approach to OSS boils down to "I cannot be made responsible for things I do not control, _and I should be made responsible for things I do control_ ". I also try to apply the same fairly to others

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

added Qt integration for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer via PySide6 the dialog below is just 125 lines of code (plus a .ui file from Qt Designer); it offers every basic function of `memory-25q` applet in a touchscreen-friendly format

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

"drinking monster energy" sounds like something the church would get really upset about

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

would anybody else be interested in an application that works as a reverse proxy to cache.nixos.org and uses a local directory as a last level cache? there's already an application for it but it's full of slop (this is only useful for Nix VMs that don't share `/nix/store`)

cache.nixos.org

cache.nixos.org is up

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

wrote a Forgejo Actions workflow that lets you update a Nix source derivation by clicking two buttons in the Codeberg UI codeberg.org/GlasgowEmbedded/redist…

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To temporarily avoid.

Restore location includes the.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

if you get really good at pve you get to pvp the government

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

massively multiplayer pve first person shooter (the United States of America)

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

you condition everyone to react to the sounds produced by your shitty messenger, then you change the sounds for no reason. go to fucking jail

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

whoever decided that this setting needs to automatically turn on every autumn needs to be found, tarred, feathered, and then fired

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

oi mate, you got a loicense for that `template<>`?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

so i've registered Glasgow Research Systems Ltd to handle commercial support for Glasgow Interface Explorer

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@recursive @qualia are there reasons to ever use fake-leather other than for how it looks?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@fractalolivia don't know about that, i routinely use applications from early 2000s and sometimes late 90s on windows and they... work? they've done a good job maintaining backwards compatibility. that said, compatibility isn't my problem with macos, or i'd hate using linux too. no, it's the […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@fractalolivia the graphical interface is the bit that makes me go "I'd rather use Windows", yeah.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@dalias I believe the situation is similar in practice in the US, though I don't know what the laws are

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@dalias for UK: > Since 2024, rules have been in place saying that you’re entitled to a refund if you’ve been tricked into sending money via a UK bank transfer (via Faster Payments or CHAPS).

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

people say that paying the ransom to (ransomware) criminals should be illegal because it rewards extoring people. that logic seems sound! why does this logic not apply to the refunds that your bank will (sometimes, has a legal obligation to) pay you if you got scammed? n.b.: one could make a […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

if apple wanted us to build applications for their platform they'd give us a first-party way to run macOS VMs that isn't misery-inducing

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@qualia "look! these people manage to make FPGA toolchains look bad", more or less are my feelings

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

i would genuinely rather use windows than macos if i had no choice but those two OSes (as my daily)

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

if the support is anything less than _unbelievably helpful_ i'm fucking refunding it

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

using this software makes me want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

time from attempting to deal with Parallels to opening a ticket because it is catastrophically broken: idk under a hour I guess

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@0xabad1dea (sorry, this is an incomprehensible answer. i have many of my computers named after types of tuna. longtail is a type of tuna, which your post reminded me of)

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@LunaDragofelis > If so, maybe consider suing them for the expenses and hopefully setting good precedent I am not wealthy enough to do that. tell that to someone who isn't an immigrant... or who is a rich immigrant I guess

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@LunaDragofelis i did it in person by going to Post Office and they just fucking rejected it in theory you can do it via the browser, in practice i'm not sure this is actually viable??

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