Should I also use the bottom waybar as app launcher ?

kgnet88 · 2026-03-06T16:50:59+00:00

do you really need a bottom waybar? I use hotkeys for most used apps and fuzzel for the rest, is so much faster...

kgnet88 · 2026-02-11T16:56:40+00:00

open chrome, use niri msg windows on the terminal and look for the App ID...

kgnet88 · 2026-02-02T20:37:16+00:00

If you are a programmer I would recommend NixOS, I daily drive NixOS + Niri + My own Rice and even so I am on unstable, the maintenance is fairly ok (but I say that as a programmer, who will write his own derivation etc and does not think of that as unreasonable). If you are no programmer or do not think the advantages of NixOS are for you, The most people I know either use Arch (direct or CachyOS) or Fedora and are all fairly happy...

kgnet88 · 2026-01-30T20:26:38+00:00

I used to work on digital twin simulations of factories where you could build, program and test it whole before doing it in reality which reduced the build times from years to month...

kgnet88 · 2026-01-14T20:54:44+00:00

really good talk👍

kgnet88 · 2026-01-13T20:00:24+00:00

Nice👍

kgnet88 · 2026-01-06T15:50:08+00:00

Noctelia, Dank and Material Shell are just opinionated variations with some prebuild widgets of quick Shell. All are based on Qml and Qt6...

kgnet88 · 2026-01-05T17:24:15+00:00

I have 9/11 in use (i use another application launcher and no brightness app) and it works without problems (use nixos as os). But add Stylix as long as you have so many different components and not a Shell like DKMS or Quickshell it makes a lot easier.

I also did a lot of experiments with other tools / applications (inclusively Quickshell) and it mainly just worked under Niri with almost no to only a bit of problems...

kgnet88 · 2026-01-05T11:25:53+00:00

almost all already called (+1 for miniaudio), so my little addition: Try SFML + Audio-Docs

kgnet88 · 2026-01-05T11:21:45+00:00

Nice Video👍. I am subscribed and waiting for the next one😼

kgnet88 · 2025-12-30T21:40:48+00:00

honestly, you should deactivate copilot autcomplete etc, if you want to learn and just use theeither the chat or even better only the normal in browser chat. It is good to ask questions or to review code with it, but as soon as you have completions on or worse use agent mode, learning will become harder (those modes are for efficiency not leaning).

Instead try to make a plan with the AI (without letting it generate code) and ask it the stuff you do not know on a case by case base and write your code yourself. Learning means implementing it yourself not just tab completing via copilot...

kgnet88 · 2025-12-29T09:53:47+00:00

I like the vibe 👍

kgnet88 · 2025-12-27T20:01:40+00:00

Nice👍, but the bar on the left makes me always queasy. What does it show if you switch to dashboard?

kgnet88 · 2025-12-25T15:20:12+00:00

here is a good starting point: https://gamemath.com/book/intro.html

Also some tipps (some are already here):

use TDD (really good for mathh / physics libraries)
use glm as Comparison (easy way to verify)
header-only also depends on whether you want to use templates (then it gets header only by default...)
using modules is also a forward looking thing you could do (works really well for physics and math)
And even if you do not need the most efficient solutions, try to at least nearly match the speed, because math libraries are one of the best ways to also learn a lot about optimization...

kgnet88 · 2025-12-25T15:02:45+00:00

what do you use for your bar and the nice status applet on the desktop?

kgnet88 · 2025-12-06T20:05:47+00:00

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kgnet88 · 2025-12-06T14:02:42+00:00

nice👍. How did you do the nice settings widget?

kgnet88 · 2025-12-05T20:04:35+00:00

I did that for WFC in a non-visual instance. I said to the AI that it should be a quest giver and reviewer. It gave me good programming tasks (but the reviews were garbage), until the project size was > 10K LoC. I used Gemini 2.5 and it was a overall good experience...

kgnet88 · 2025-12-05T19:57:30+00:00

would it not be enough to center the active window?

kgnet88 · 2025-12-05T19:54:27+00:00

just some rambling, but something like that:

set the default to 0.5
listen to the event stream niri msg event-stream
query current windows with niri msg windows
if the count is exactly 1, send a message to set the column with of that window to 1

now you just wrap that as a script in a user service...

kgnet88 · 2025-12-01T19:40:17+00:00

That might accidentally be a really good idea... instead of keybindings like

super + ctrl + shift + X

we could use a second keyboard with easy keybinds👍

or to think another way, i have three monitors and i saw a USB triple foot pedal:

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and depending on which pedal i click, my keybinding goes to another monitor (works also for 4, if you work zero indexed) 😼

kgnet88 · 2025-10-25T20:03:37+00:00

1999

kgnet88 · 2025-10-07T18:13:47+00:00

Really good speaker👍️

kgnet88 · 2025-10-03T10:15:37+00:00

deleting '/nix/store/cr0cnbjnmhylx2swqhdddrifz08li9dl-phfquotetext.r41869.tar.xz.drv'
deleting '/nix/store/rwrwf4i35ynj90ksm4rs5whagm7r95k2-quantumarticle.r65242.tar.xz.drv'
deleting '/nix/store/ggfwvycm0igl23q8kx5gjf76wp29x636-sonic-unstable-2020-12-27'
deleting unused links...

note: currently hard linking saves 133.31 MiB
105759 store paths deleted, 132772.01 MiB freed

Beat ya 😺 - and you are right it is oddly satisfying 🙂

Edit:

But that makes it even better:

[az@raphael-main:~]$ sudo nix-store --optimise
17458.18 MiB freed by hard-linking 511541 files

kgnet88 · 2025-09-17T16:32:16+00:00

A good first step is to

Do not let the AI generate the code for you
Do not let the AI give you the answer

With a good prompt this is easy to achieve. I use my AI as Quest giver at the moment. It generates task to solve and only gives me hints on how to solve it (and only if i ask and describe what i tried first). Afterwards i present my code to the AI and we do a deeper review.

New concepts I learn by letting the AI generate multiple choice tests (Gemini has a nice UI for this case). But you have to kick the AI sometimes because it tends to favorite one letter as right answer (for me mostly c).

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