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ritchie.acidiclight.dev
Dev of Socially Distant - Blind programmer - and my friends call me Ritchie.
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hello cosmic, ritchie was here https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/issues/1237

Somebody once told me that I need to proceed with alacrity and confidence. They were really confused when I confidently opened GNOME Terminal.

more fixes https://gitlab.acidiclight.dev/sociallydistant/sociallydistant/-/merge_requests/30 #gamedev #SociallyDistant

ritchie https://gitlab.acidiclight.dev/sociallydistant/sociallydistant/-/merge_requests/29

#KDE #Plasma 6.3 lets me zoom so far in that **I can see forensic levels of detail when debugging UI in Socially Distant. It has been an invaluable resource for debugging the game's text renderer. <3 #gamedev #linux #accessibility #ritchieisaplasmoidconfirmed

Putting in a lot of work on Socially Distant's UI scaling support. <3 https://gitlab.acidiclight.dev/sociallydistant/sociallydistant/-/merge_requests/29 #gamedev

Calling all ASCII artists! https://lighthouse.acidiclight.dev/t/community-contest-help-us-fix-neofetch/45 #gamedev

I love my boyfriend <3

damnit ritchie stop trying to go to couldflare.com, it's cloudflare.com you dummy

It is a common misconception that you can take a Docker container and rip it from its host, put it on a new host, and have everything just work. No. File permissions are a thing, and if you screw them up, Redis will eat your RAM.

my community scares me sometimes https://lighthouse.acidiclight.dev/t/why-does-soap-taste-so-good/42/2

is there any rule against bringing chili and garlic bread to tech over tea?

I can't believe it's not btrfs

sometimes I make impulsive decisions and this time it's because my stream deck works on linux https://Ko-fi.com/home/coffeeshop?txid=bfc851de-fbdd-4127-aff9-423c0e5061bf&mode=public&img=ogiboughtsomeone

Trying to track down a Kwin alt+tab hang. Um....now that I have a kwin dev workin' with me to track it down, I can't get the hang to last long enough to backtrace it. Argh.

Why do I submit merge requests asking for permission to merge code into my own game's repository? It's so you guys can see what I'm doing, and so that I don't have to log into Steamworks to upload a build. A script does it for me at merge. <3

I am implementing user-defined widgets into Socially Distant's window API. This allows in-game programs to move toolbars into the window title bar, like you would do in libadwaita in real life. It is QUITE controversial in the community. :P

I have a headache. A message from the government of Ritchie.

I have a tenkeyless keyboard idfk what the fuck they did with the ten key but it's fucking gone

I just put out a Socially Distant devlog. First one of 2025! It's now in early-access for my lovely Patreon supporters. <3 https://www.patreon.com/posts/121153049 #gamedev

if you follow the same people as me, you are likely about to scroll through miles and miles of centos I decided to add to that by just saying the word centos three times this has been my random useless post about centos bye guys <3

#test #post #please #ignor ritchie

a friend said I should do linux from scratch instructions unclear, installed linux on scratch

DLSS should not, and should stop being, a substitute for well-written rendering code.

More core gameplay code in Socially Distant <3 https://gitlab.acidiclight.dev/sociallydistant/sociallydistant/-/merge_requests/21

only the metalheads will get these jokes

I know we already have KDE Plasma, but I'd like to see KDE Liquid, KDE Solid, and KDE Gas.

show your local police department some love and appreciation walk up to a nearby police cruiser and give it a head pat warning: not actual advice

Gameplay. It's coming. https://gitlab.acidiclight.dev/sociallydistant/sociallydistant/-/merge_requests/20

I just reproduced the bug with another test note. https://hub.acidiclight.dev/s/4mkZZzpFcFracHY Some lines visually overlap. Also it seems to be generating an image preview rather than just displaying the markdown as-is?

Any of y'all #nextcloud server admins know why the frick my Notes and other markdown files look awfully bad when I share them via link? They look fine in the editor But they look broken in the share preview, and in the actual page when people click on the link.

I think I just accidentally *wrote* my own screen reader.

I am not at all excited to write the #windows backend for this... But we will... in the name of blind #accessibility . <3 https://gitlab.acidiclight.dev/sociallydistant/sociallydistant/-/merge_requests/19

I love #nextcloud but these toolbar icons, with the default background color, do not look great right now D: I had a custom image but they were black on black. I wish there was a way to change the color.

may I suggest a nice #ux improvement to these damn cookie consent screens if I smash the Esc key several times in a single nanosecond, please just deny the consent because I'm too blind to fucking find it

People often tell me, or ask m if I know that, a particular website/app supports alt text in images now. The other day, I was asked about Discord Mobile. This screenshot sums it up nicely. Alt text is useless if your app crashes the screen reader. Call me when these proprietary software devs

I'm 23 now what the fuck just happened

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Honey, is in fact, PayPal Honey, or as I've recently taken to calling it, PayPal Rewards + Honey. Honey is not a service unto itself, but rather another malicious component of a fully functioning PayPal Rewards system made useful