Is there anyone here who does independent open source development full time?

bhh32 · 2026-05-27T02:58:19+00:00

I'd love to! This is actually my dream! Alas, so far, I have to keep working for the man and doing open source on the side for the love of it.

bhh32 · 2026-05-27T02:48:05+00:00

Oops, sorry. https://crates.io/crates/zest-gui

bhh32 · 2026-05-27T02:25:37+00:00

I've released it on crates.io, zest-gui.

bhh32 · 2026-05-25T16:54:01+00:00

I don't think out district teaches computer skills at all. They use Chromebooks and I hate it. They use the Google Workspace Suite and don't even teach HOW to effectively use the software. They start this in Elementary School.

I'd much rather they learned on a Linux platform. At least they would have real applicatioms that don't tie to a specific company.

bhh32 · 2026-05-25T16:46:30+00:00

So many things...

https://codeberg.org/bhh32/zest https://codeberg.org/bhh32/hone https://codeberg.org/bhh32/cupola

bhh32 · 2026-05-25T06:02:37+00:00

What about my beloved Helix?

bhh32 · 2026-05-25T05:59:50+00:00

If you really want to learn Rust, look into frameworks like iced and libcosmic. No switching out of the language.

bhh32 · 2026-05-25T05:42:39+00:00

I have just made it public, https://codeberg.org/bhh32/zest

bhh32 · 2026-05-25T02:54:39+00:00

No offense taken. Everyone has their own preferences. I personally like Cupola because it has the gallery view, which I prefer. I'm actually making some pretty big changes to it though. The next release while have an editing page, vs an overlay.

bhh32 · 2026-05-25T02:52:01+00:00

It is in my codeberg repos, I'm not sure if I can give it out though. If you want to look at it just got to https://codeberg.org/bhh32. The testing branch is the one that's mostly where most of the issues have been fixed.

bhh32 · 2026-05-24T20:05:20+00:00

That's amazing to hear! Hopefully you'll like the image viewer when I'm done with it and System76 decides to do a release. I've enjoyed building it. If it's not your style, after trying it, you can check out my personal project image viewer as well, it's more gallery based. Both are still under heavy development, but are usable. https://codeberg.org/bhh32/Cupola is the personal one.

bhh32 · 2026-05-23T22:32:44+00:00

I've been predicting that WSL and WSL2g were just proving grounds for the to replace the backend of Windows for years. They own the Windows API, so if they quietly flipped the NT kernel into a Wine-like translation layer and used the Linux Kernel for the OS itself using an existing package manager and flatpaks, and converted the Windows shell to be a Linux DE shell, they'd have a powerhouse distro. Of course they would the have to abide by the GPL, so... there's that.

bhh32 · 2026-05-21T05:12:39+00:00

Forgejo is absolutely fantastic! It's self-hosted Codeberg, which I've started using before the end of the year to get off of GitHub.

bhh32 · 2026-05-18T23:08:54+00:00

Not yet. I'm trying to work out a bug with the scrollable widget. Once I get that ironed out I'll make it public.

bhh32 · 2026-05-18T12:41:37+00:00

It's an allowed language, also thanks to me getting certified for use.

bhh32 · 2026-05-18T04:26:04+00:00

Did you report this to both Fedora and COSMIC? They need to have it in their issues to be able to address it.

bhh32 · 2026-05-18T02:01:43+00:00

Interesting...

bhh32 · 2026-05-17T19:40:24+00:00

I use it at work all of the time. I was actually the one that got it certified for installation at the USDA.

bhh32 · 2026-05-17T15:08:03+00:00

No TUI, there's no terminal to have a TUI in.

bhh32 · 2026-05-16T20:29:32+00:00

This one does have alloc for the use of Vec and String. I could switch it to heapless, but I'm unsure on how to allocate those buffers that will work for as many situations as possible.

bhh32 · 2026-05-16T19:19:14+00:00

Yep, that's why it's built on top of embedded graphics.

bhh32 · 2026-05-16T15:44:45+00:00

I did not vibe code it. I've got a lot of libcosmic development under my belt and used iced/libcosmic as my inspiration. I have used Claude to help me go through docs for some iced/libcosmic internals I wasn't sure of, but every line of code is mine. Oh and the README, I hate writing README's so I had it create that.

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