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Cake day: July 5th, 2024

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  • As someone with an Nvidia GPU on Wayland, unfortunately quite a few places.

    Resuming from sleep requires power cycling the monitors.

    Glitchy transparent artifacting down to the desktop if windows are overlapping next the task bar.

    Widgets in the system tray (KDE Plasma - I have temperature readouts) disappear and reappear randomly, and sometimes switch which taskbar they live on.

    VRR support is pretty bad, causing black screens when using full screen applications.

    2D-heavy games are flooded with thousands of vulkan draw calls, leading to abysmal performance and massive current spikes (and therefore coil whine). This is mitigated per-game with dxvk settings - often removing the whine without improving performance.

    HDR is … technically available.

    Overall I’m happy, but I cannot recommend this experience to anyone I know because it would drive them insane.




  • Consider: the facts

    People are very bad at judging their own productivity, and AI consistently makes devs feel like they are working faster, while in fact slowing them down.

    I’ve experienced it myself - it feels fucking great to prompt a skeleton and have something brand new up and running in under an hour. The good chemicals come flooding in because I’m doing something new and interesting.

    Then I need to take a scalpel to a hundred scattered lines to get CI to pass. Then I need to write tests that actually test functionality. Then I start extending things and realize the implementation is too rigid and I need to change the architecture.

    It is as this point that I admit to myself that going in intentionally with a plan and building it myself the slow way would have saved all that pain and probably got the final product shipped sooner, even if the prototype was shipped later.