Hi!

For once let’s open things up with the NPotM. I’ve started working on sajin, an Android app which synchronizes camera pictures in the background. I’ve grown tired of manually copying files around, and I don’t want to use proprietary services to backup my pictures, so I’ve been meaning to write a tiny app to upload pictures to my server. It’s super simple: enter the WebDAV server URL and credentials, then just forget about the app. It plays well with sogogi (my WebDAV file server) and Photoview (a Web picture gallery). I’d like to implement feedback on synchronization status and manual synchronization of older pictures. I really need to find an icon for it too.

Once again, this month I’ve spent a fair bit of time on Sway and wlroots bug fixes, in particular wlroots DRM backend issues affecting old GPUs (these not supporting the atomic KMS API) and multi-GPU setups (I’ve had to bite the bullet and bring my super shaky setup out of the closet). wlroots 0.18.2 has been released, among other things it also fixes some X11 drag-and-drop bugs (thanks Consolatis!).

In IRC land, delthas has added soju support for the metadata extension, enabling clients to mark conversations as pinned or muted. Once senpai and Goguma add support for this extension, they will be able to synchronize this bit of state. In other words, marking a conversation as pinned on a mobile phone will also affect all other connected clients.

Thanks to John Regan, PostgreSQL message queries have been optimized by several orders of magnitude: on large message stores, they now take a few milliseconds instead of multiple seconds. I’ve turned on WAL mode for SQLite, which should help with message insertion performance.

I’ve worked on making Goguma play better with direct connections to old IRC servers such as Libera Chat and OFTC. These servers support only a few IRCv3 extensions, and they aggressively rate-limit TCP connections and commands (including CAP REQ commands sent to initialize the connection). Goguma should now reconnect less often on first setup and should connect more quickly (by reducing the amount of CAP REQ commands).

Last, I’ve added proper support for GitLab Pages to dalligi, a small bridge to use builds.sr.ht as a GitLab CI runner. GitLab Pages requires to define a special job with the exact name “pages”, which is cumbersome with builds.sr.ht. dalligi can now copy over artifacts of a previous job to this special “pages” job. I hope this can be used to automatically publish wlroots docs.

See you next year!