Author: Tamius Han

How to Justify Your Separation Ending

Where we look into what makes an ending meaningful and satisfying, and what doesn’t. Continue Reading... "How to Justify Your Separation Ending"

“Fixing” spectacle’s offset bug on Hi-DPI screens

Spectacle is KDE‘s screenshot utility. Since the beginning of time (but only reported years ago), it has a bug that annoys people using multiple high or mixed PPI monitors. For example, consider my desktop. It looks like this: 5120×2160 at 34″ gives us a PPI (pixels per inch) of about 160. This has its benefits, but also some drawbacks — especially on Linux. Wayland… Continue Reading... "“Fixing” spectacle’s offset bug on Hi-DPI screens"

Reimplementing touchpad gliding, the pleb way: The first attempt

I’ve done the long ass rant in my previous post so I can focus on my road to solution in this one. Long story short: I got a touchpad I have multiple monitors, which means I have to drag my finger across the touchpad a lot Cursor gliding is a solution (Linux) drivers don’t do cursor gliding. They do coasting, but they’re shit at… Continue Reading... "Reimplementing touchpad gliding, the pleb way: The first attempt"

Reimplementing touchpad coasting/gliding, the pleb way: Introduction

Quick note: I initially tried to keep the intro short, but quick history of touchpads ended being not … so quick. This post thus mostly talks about quick history of touchpads, available options and why you might want to get one. Despite being in just about every laptop, touchpads seem to be a very neglected piece of hardware that nobody seems to use if… Continue Reading... "Reimplementing touchpad coasting/gliding, the pleb way: Introduction"

Dealing with keyboards is mini-hell

It’s been a while since I’ve written about programming, but lately I’ve gotten back to working on Ultrawidify. With no major bugs or problems that require immediate fix, I can finally get to work on bugs and features that I’ve been kicking down the line for a while. Problem of the week are, of course, keyboards (or keyboard layouts). In javascript, you have roughly… Continue Reading... "Dealing with keyboards is mini-hell"

Toothless, Intelligence, and Agency: Did Toothless Willingly Betray Green Death?

Nine years after How To Train Your Dragon was released, people still like to argue about just how intelligent Toothless (or other draconids of the franchise) really are. Some people argue that they’re intelligent and sapient, other argue against with mostly dumb excuses (the most retarded ones to date are vague fog of “but they aren’t human” and “they don’t believe in gods”). One… Continue Reading... "Toothless, Intelligence, and Agency: Did Toothless Willingly Betray Green Death?"

Ultrawidify and the Improper Cropping

Yet another day, yet another post about stuff going wrong. This time, I’ve got a bug report that “videos are jumping around” on Facebook and some other pages. I tried to verify the problem … and everything worked fine for me. Then I decided to boot up Windows and there it was — the problem as described. So nice — we have a problem… Continue Reading... "Ultrawidify and the Improper Cropping"