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ritchie.acidiclight.dev
Dev of Socially Distant - Blind programmer - and my friends call me Ritchie.
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I wonder if the #system76 devs ever get cosmic headaches after debugging...

I....may or may not have summoned the iological fortitude needed to apply for a job at the #KDE e.V.

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