This morning, I tried more ideas for fixing the remaining endianness bugs in Mozilla's graphics engine. I found a few more leads but so far no progress on cracking the image decoding issue. It was a beautiful day out and my allergies are waning since it's finally autumn, so we took my gran out and… Continue reading Saturday: Mozilla and Bixby
Big Endian Firefox: Now with more compositing
I'm currently in the process of trying to bring up the PowerPC platform as a fully supported architecture in Firefox. I've already implemented better support for XPCOM / JS interfacing, and fixed a crash in the JavaScript interpreter. My next challenge is fixing graphical issues, which is proving to be more of a challenge than… Continue reading Big Endian Firefox: Now with more compositing
A re-introduction to blogging
I've finally moved my blog off Google Blogger and over to WordPress. WordPress is much nicer and I'm much happier with this platform – and recommend it highly! I have so much to say, and so many drafts that I've written. I wanted to start by noting that I imported the "best of" my old… Continue reading A re-introduction to blogging
Ridiculous unusable download URLs for open source projects
I told myself (and everyone I know) that I wouldn't write another blog post until I moved the blog off Google Blogger, but I can't stay silent on this issue. UPower, the open source power management software used on Linux (and I believe the *BSD family), has recently changed their download URLs. As the lead… Continue reading Ridiculous unusable download URLs for open source projects
Exposing The Wayland Lie
Since a growing number of people have been asking me "when" Wayland will be fully supported on Adélie, I felt like I should clear up all the lies that Wayland's development have apparently made in to folklore. 1. "Wayland can't be keylogged, unlike X11." Apparently, some people think that X11 is insecure because it allows… Continue reading Exposing The Wayland Lie
Identity, shame, stigma, and intolerance
I have seen a great number of people in the past few years disavow being a part of a culture or community that they once enjoyed or identified with due to an influx of sexism, nationalism, or other intolerance. I feel like this is a mistake and will only serve to strengthen intolerance amongst the… Continue reading Identity, shame, stigma, and intolerance
Fixing the laptop I broke
Using assembly language to fix a Linux computer with a broken libc.… Continue reading Fixing the laptop I broke
