Hello, world
2019-08-11
My new web home
Hey people. I finally got around at creating a static blog.
After using Hugo for a while, and initially deciding to try out Pelican, just to realize it’s in a sad, outdated state right now, I settled on Hexo.
It’s not like I’m crazy for JavaScript, quite the contrary. But I do realize it has its place sometimes. Using npm
to install plugins is pretty clever, and besides at the end of the day I am the only one that has to use it.
It has a more complex structure compared to the aforementioned solutions, but if it gets the job done I can’t complain too much.
Recap
This is an interesting point in my life. In July I got my bachelor’s in Computer Science, it was a pretty great achievement, and soon I’ll be heading to Milan to get a master degree.
About my projects, things are going very well. I am focusing a lot on GTK/GNOME apps, probably because I’m making things I want to use in the first place.
HydraPaper got a pretty substantial update, introducing libhandy into the mix to spice up its looks somehow, and mostly to make use of some comodity widgets it offers, namely the awesome HdyPreferencesWindow
.
For the thesis of my bachelor’s, I presented another interesting app called Unifydmin. It’s a control center and administration panel for servers. It’s a very interesting project, but it’s still quite rough around the edges. I have to find the motivation to pick it up again, but right now I’m focused on another project.
And this project is Feeds, a feed reader. It may sound dumb, but I couldn’t find a single feed reader app for linux that I liked. Everything is either old, slow or electron based. After some time complaining about this (my girlfriend and friends can tell you about it), and basically using reddit and the podcasts I follow to get the latest news, I said F it, and made my own thing. It’s going pretty well and the people that tried it seem to like it, and that makes me actually very proud of it.
And I think that’s about it for now. I hope I manage to get my S together and start blogging more frequently, because I quite enjoy being able to share dev stuff online.
Let’s see where that goes.