AI, Computer Literacy, and the New Divide
2 V 2026 13 min read
As we've been exposed to what AI can do over a few years now, with a field continuously growing, many opinions about the situation have emerged. Some people are optimistic; some are pessimistic, but I am a bit of both. The more I look at AI's growth, progress, and potential future directions, the more I...
D-Bus is a disgrace to the Linux desktop
15 XII 2025 12 min read
D Bus was introduced by GNOME folks about 20 years ago. For software made only 20 years ago, as opposed to 40 like X, it's surprisingly almost equally as bad. As a service, D Bus is incredibly handy and useful, and overall, I believe the idea should absolutely be used by more apps. However, the...
Road to the Account and the Path Forward
10 VII 2025 3 min read
Yesterday, I've finally opened registrations to the Hyprland Account infrastructure. As expected, within 20s a small bug has surfaced which made the backend repeatedly crash. Ah, life of a software engineer. That was fixed promptly and registrations started flowing in steadily. As of right now, about 12...
Electron ain't bad, actually
26 IV 2025 4 min read
Recently I've released to the public a new side project of mine, Vermilion. It's a fast and stylish music player with a bunch of streaming services integrated, written with electron, svelte and typescript. A lot of people have seen it already, and if there was one thing people did not like, it would be...
Hyprland's development isn't what it used to be
20 II 2025 5 min read
Hyprland's development has been going on for almost 3 years now. It's been pretty much solely led by me for the most time, although recently there has been a few people very active in improving the ecosystem, which makes me glad. Tonight, I'd like to talk a bit about how the development has changed, and...
Should we support annoying platforms?
25 XII 2024 7 min read
Hyprland, as a display server, is being used on many, many different platforms. Although its main target are common desktops and laptops (be that nvidia, intel or AMD), people may use a vast array of hardware, including embedded systems, wonky chinese chips, and even mobile phones (shoutout Amir)...
That one Q&A with Yours Truly
16 XI 2024 18 min read
I've announced I'll make a small Q&A, and well, this is it. :) The questions When can we expect Wayland to XWayland drag and drop support on Hyprland once someone donates good enough antidepressants for the side effects of working with X11 code What is your long term plan with Hyprland (i.e., after you...
We don't need more Wayland Compositors
7 XI 2024 5 min read
As we move off of X11 and into Wayland, there are a few people that lament their loss, as their WM of choice does not have a Wayland port. Some people complain about the seemingly small diversity. The reality is that, although there are quite a few standalone Wayland compositors, you don't hear about...
The Linux desktop is self-destructive
11 VII 2024 9 min read
I've had this thought in my mind for a long while now, but some recent events have finally made me decide to write a blogpost about this. In short: The Linux desktop and the community around it focus way more on bringing each other down than actually progressing the software further. If not for the fact...
What is the wlroots rewrite, why, and how's it going?
14 V 2024 6 min read
My endeavors at rewriting wlroots have become quite a common topic in many parts of the Hyprland spaces online, and I've noticed that a lot of people do not actually understand what it entails, or what it is, and what it's not. Because of that, I've decided to write a small blogpost detailing the reason...
The results of the Fourth Hyprland Census
8 V 2024 4 min read
A while back I conducted the fourth Hyprland census, and got some interesting replies. As is tradition, I will sum up the results and give my own comments in a small blogpost. We've gotten 2x more replies this time, thank you to everyone who participated! Demographics As usual, we start with the...
Writing my own malloc to fix my trampolines
14 IV 2024 4 min read
This is a continuation to a blogpost I made quite a while back about x86 trampolines in Linux, read it before this one: link. A while back I made a tweet about a bit of code that fixed almost all my problems with trampoline hooks, and it's been the most successful tweet of mine of all time, probably...
Freedesktop/RedHat's CoC team is worse than you thought.
9 IV 2024 4 min read
Before reading this, please make sure to read "part 1" of this entire story: My previous blogpost is here I will update the story here, as I have received an email from Alex about a day after I made my blogpost. As with "part 1", I want to preface this with how this post is not to start a hate campaign...
How Freedesktop/RedHat harass other projects into submission
7 IV 2024 10 min read
There has been an update to this story, as the member has responded to this blogpost. After reading this post, make sure to read the follow up The name of the person contacting me has been censored due to excess online hate. Please do not go harassing the person. I never would have thought I'd have to...
What the Cursor?
10 III 2024 7 min read
As I've recently launched hyprcursor, a completely new cursor format for use in a modern desktop aimed at replacing the old standard of XCursor, I think it's a good idea to make a blogpost about how cursors actually work on Linux (and BSD, blah blah) in general to help people understand what's going on...
Come help shape Hyprland!
30 I 2024 5 min read
Although I don't like complaining about working too much or burnout, there are points at which it is fair to speak up about such issues, in my opinion. For me, as I approach 2 years without a single day of a break in developing hyprland, I believe that entitles me to open up a bit about how it's been...
How to work full-time without a salary, aka do FOSS.
13 XII 2023 6 min read
As much as I'd love to give advice on how to not work like me, I unfortunately don't have much experience in that. So, instead, I can give you tips on how to write code full time for (almost) free. Or, in other words, how to not go insane from working in FOSS without an actual job paying you to do so...
Inclusive community activists are harming FOSS
6 XI 2023 7 min read
Firstly, I have to preface this entire article with stating that I have nothing against inclusive communities at all. We live in a free world, you're allowed to create whatever communities you like, as long as they are legal and moral. What this article is about, is people, by some referred to as "SJW"s...
Changes to the Hyprland community
20 IX 2023 4 min read
With recent drama, I have decided to investigate the issue of harassment in the Hyprland community a bit more. This post is to outline the already present changes and the nearest future's upcoming ones. I'd like to highlight that my previous post on the matter is still up there and, unlike what some...
Misinformation about the Hyprland community
17 IX 2023 12 min read
This blogpost is mostly a reply to Drew DeVault's post titled "Hyprland is a toxic community" (link). In this post, I'd like to try to be as clear as possible, avoiding paraphrasing and throwing in personal opinions as much as possible, which I'd like Drew to also attempt next time he makes a post with...
The results of the Third Hyprland Census
20 VII 2023 3 min read
A while back we've conducted the third hyprland census, now it's time to reveal the results. No PDF this time because 1) I am lazy and 2) nobody was using them. Straight to the point, no bullshit. Demographics As usual, we start with the people. Not much has changed, again, males under 25. What a...
C++ Interacting With C? Wrap it!
19 VII 2023 5 min read
C++ is a generally great language, offering versatility, speed and power to those who have time to learn it well. Although it does have some weaknesses, like the known "10 ways to accomplish one thing, C++ has them all", one of the most critiqued weak spot of C++ is the apparent lack of memory safety...
Maintaining FOSS Projects Sucks
10 V 2023 6 min read
Many people like to complain about software. Although praise for software may sometimes be more frequent than hate, it's usually the hate that is more pronounced. That's the reality that we live in. As Schopenhauer says, that which inconveniences us is visible as the turmoils in life, because the...
Advanced Trampoline Hooks in x86 Linux
27 II 2023 5 min read
After having mostly finished the initial plugin system implementation in Hyprland, a bunch of people were curious about the new hook system, and understandably so. Hyprland uses trampoline hooks to let plugins call their own code before or after a chosen method is executed, allowing them to change the...
New Blog Design
24 II 2023 2 min read
Hello hello and welcome after a short break. I have now decided that it was high time to update the blog's design. The previous one was definitely bad . It wasn't terrible, but it was pretty bad . The issues with the old design The previous design had two glaring issues: æsthetics. performance The first...
The Results of the Second Hyprland Census
5 XII 2022 4 min read
After a few days of the census starting, I've now received over 200 responses (206 to be exact) and I want to thank everyone who has partaken in the Census. Y'all are awesom I mean, hypr! Now, with all of the replies, I will go through them one at a time, comparing them to the last Census and sharing my...
Hyprland and the bundled wlroots
17 XI 2022 4 min read
As you may have noticed, if you are a Hyprland user, Hyprland does not depend on wlroots. However, it still is a wlroots based compositor. How is that? Well, in short, Hyprland bundles wlroots. What that means, is that there is a git submodule in the Hyprland tree, and that wlroots is locally built, then...
Addressing some common Hyprland complaints
13 X 2022 3 min read
In before Brodie Robertson releases his promised Hyprland video in two years (probably lol) I decided to address some common complaints regarding Hyprland here. Hope you enjoy this massive rant about idiots. Hyprland's developer(s) are very unprofessional! Ok, and? Honestly, although I understand where...
I've finally fixed the view count
13 VIII 2022 2 min read
Well, this won't be a long blogpost. I am letting you all know that the viewcount up to today has been SEVERELY deflated. Why? Because of my stupidity in code, and partially because I just didn't notice. Yes, it seemed a bit off but I just brushed it off as a "who wants to read a programming blog lol"...
The Results of The First Hyprland Census
12 VIII 2022 7 min read
After a few days, I've gathered over 100 replies to The First Hyprland Census. I've asked a few questions to better direct Hyprland's development. Now, with all those replies, The report is done. It's available in PDF format if you prefer it like that, or, you can read it below. Thank you to everyone who...
A Ramble About Typos in Hyprland
28 VII 2022 2 min read
I think I have to start this with a preface explaining what I classify as a "typo" in programming. In my opinion, a typo in programming is not when you misspell a name of the variable, for example from MyVar to MyVae , as that would be quickly caught by the linter, or the compiler. What I mean by a typo...
You can now support me on ko-fi!
26 VI 2022 1 min read
After this being suggested for a while now, I've decided to launch a ko fi page. Ko fi is a neat platform where you can tip me a bit of money once, or register for a tier. If you have some spare dollars, or euros, or whatever currency you use, and you like what I do online, you can go to https://ko...
Hyprland - Hypr, but better, and land.
22 VI 2022 3 min read
Haven't written a blogpost in a while, but hey, I'm writing another one now. If you have absolutely no idea what Hyprland is, I recommend you go and take a look at the repo here. Hyprland, just like Hypr, started with an idea. The idea was that since Hypr was nearing the point where I was not really...
The main site is finally updated!
16 IV 2022 3 min read
My main site, vaxerski.xyz, has finally been updated after 2 years of pretty much no change. The 2020 website, although having I'd say a pretty nice and simple design, had some flaws. Firstly, it was VERY minimalistic. I mean, three links and a video. That's it, pretty much. So, this time, after getting...
It's not Awesome, it's Hypr!
6 IV 2022 4 min read
Hypr was my first "major" public project. Yes, I've done big projects at work, and before too, but it was the first that I've written from the ground up, was big and public. It's also one of those projects that I am still proud of, and not only because it's gained over 330 stars already on Github. In...
Hello World, may I say.
6 IV 2022 2 min read
After some battling it with Node.JS and Express.JS, I've managed to get a more or less functional site. Well, at least until I break it and then I have to panic make it work again. So, with that being said, I am proud to announce that my blog is online starting from today! I will post stuff about my...