In a discussion thread on the MX Linux forum someone made the comment “flatpaks are magically bloated in size.” Kids today! Statements like this require a lengthy response. Despite what…
DOS
The Death of Commercial Application Frameworks
I was going to title this post “The Death of Qt” but it is really all commercial event driven application frameworks. To understand this you need to take a journey…
The getkey Trap
This topic came up on my Jed mailing list the other day and, once again, I got in touch with my inner Bill. Your inner Bill? Yes, that cranky old…
Raspberry Qt – Part 4
Back in the day of Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) everyone had to use a modem to connect to either a bulletin board or friend’s computer. This was long before the…
If I Only Had Time to Focus
How many times have we all said that? I would complete “thing x” if I had time to focus on it. Sadly, it is a lie we tell not only…