kolunmi

Bazaar has breached 2,000 downloads in a day on flathub for some reason! This hasn't happened since we first submitted Bazaar to Flathub!

If you enjoy Bazaar and would like to support the project, please do consider donating to me at https://ko-fi.com/kolunmi or to Alexander at https://ko-fi.com/alexandervanhee !!

I'm pleased to finally be recognized for not only creating the first gay app store, but doing so before the release date of the highly anticipated gta6, the first gay video game!

🥂 May bazaar continue to cause much discomfort to this goofball and many more just like them!

lisp is always fun to mess with, it is just such untapped potential imo. Here I can define an inline animation code body that will be run similar to the way @chergert@my.devsuite.app once described through using libdex and awaiting tick promises in a for loop inside of libdex fibers. This is fully stackless though, since it is using a completely normal widget tick callback routine under the hood. But the way lisp handles scoping means the same thing can be set up with a few macros 🤯

I’m irreparably emotionally scarred and write a lot of code. Please help me find a job oh god, just so I can exist in peace and never have to risk abandonment again. Am I doing this right? #getfedihired

@pwithnall@mastodon.social @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

Sorry for the super late comment, but:

Bazaar benefits from only having to deal with one backend (flatpak), which means its internals can be significantly simpler. Query results don’t have to wait for the slowest backend, or cater for different granularities of information provided by different backends. It also benefits from a lot of this code having been written and bugfixed already, over the years. 3/

While it is true that bazaar only has the one flatpak backend, I’ve made it a strict rule from the beginning that anything that has to do with with package management must be invoked through the generic BzBackend interface, which the flatpak backend implements. And this pattern is seen elsewhere in the codebase. Generic structures have been maintained in as many places as possible to facilitate the creation of theoretical new backend. Alexander actually created a gnome shell extensions backend quite easily because he was able to reference the way flatpak objects were subclassed and adapt it to his needs

This of course is not to say that bazaar doesn’t have it easier than gnome software, it most definitely does, but that considerable efforts have been made to make bazaar receptive to new backends as a fundamental design choice

Of course, I referenced gnome software many many times in the early development of bazaar, so I simply wasn’t treading a new path like gs had to. It was the same language, same stack, same gui library, so bazaar owes a lot to gs and its iterative development from Phillip and others over the years.

I think gnome software needs to be celebrated for forging the path rather than ridiculed. It had to cooperate with emerging technologies, and seeing how sporadic and unintuitive much of the Linux packaging landscape is to anyone with fresh eyes, it’s actually done an incredible job imo

New bazaar release!! https://github.com/bazaar-org/bazaar/releases/tag/v0.7.14

fixed a bug where the download timeline graph would completely redraw after any mouse movement, causing some lag. Now it only redraws the changed parts!!

playing with ideas for new progress bar themes in bazaar lol

Added numeric evaluation to the .wdgt format I'm working on!! (gtk)

Added spring transitions!!!

thoughts? not sure I like it

Added macros to the format, as one does

Added a importable json module to glisp, so you can turn json streams into native types automagically: https://gitlab.gnome.org/kolunmi/glisp/-/blob/main/src/builtin/json.gl

working on better error messages

gtk_snapshot_push_fill is awesome, can't believe I've been sleeping on this!! https://github.com/bazaar-org/bazaar/pull/1376

first attempt at recreating the progress bar in bazaar with the new .wdgt format!!

idea 1: theme selector

@alatiera@mastodon.social @autisticplushy@lgbtqia.space lolll I forgot about this, yikes