Re: [dev] Article in line with suckless.org

2021-08-08 Thread Greg Minshall
Martin, there is much wisdom in what you write. and, the text you cited (i summarize as "write once, throw it away; write it again another day") is also very powerful. the problem, ultimately, is understanding what the problem to be solved actually is, wrestling with that problem until you reall

[dev][dmenu] Setting FC_SCALABLE causes slowdowns

2021-08-08 Thread Miles Alan
I'm working on trying to speed up dmenu rendering in some edgecases. I've sent a patch to the hackers ML about line-length effecting performance. A second issue I'm noticing is that the line within drw.c: FcPatternAddBool(fcpattern, FC_SCALABLE, FcTrue); will cause vast rendering slowdowns based

Re: [dev] Article in line with suckless.org

2021-08-08 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Sat, Aug 7, 2021, at 14:02, Sagar Acharya wrote: > I have written this article at the link below. > > https://designman.org/sagaracharya/blog/pretend_computer_security > > It enhances the value of suckless by pointing the problems in gigantic > softwares. Let me know what you think. I'm remi