vidarh

What the title says. It's <1k lines of Ruby, and provides a basic tiling WM w/some support for floating windows. It's minimalist, likely still buggy and definitely lacking in features, but some might find it interesting.

It is actually the WM I use day to day

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.stad.social/post/19579

Croydon Airport was the UK's only airport in the interwar period, and opened in 1920, and featured the worlds first Air Traffic Control tower, and the worlds first airport terminal.

This model is hanging in the terminal, near the tower.

Unfortunately the building was converted into offices at some point after it closed in 1959, and much of it looks the part, but the museum is open once a month and gives you a chance to see what was once the worlds first fully purposebuilt commercial airport.

Heracles, the plane, was one of a number of Handley Page planes operated by Imperial Airways in the 1930's. Heracles flew from 1931 to 1940, when it was destroyed in a gale. By 1937, it had accumulated 1 million miles of service.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.stad.social/post/14648

Taken from next to Warren Street tube station.

The BT Tower itself is 177m + antennas, and used to be an Official Secret - for many years you weren't allowed to publish its address, despite it being the tallest building in the area by far and visible from miles away.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.stad.social/post/13225

Crystal Palace Park in South London has a number of "dinosaur" statues constructed from ca 1850 onwards. They are great, but not with modern eyes looks more like Pokemon than dinosaurs, as they the science of what dinosaurs might have looked like hadn't exactly gotten very far.

If you zoom in on the background, you can see a couple of the other statues.

Here's more on the Crystal Palace dinosaurs

The World isn't a regular cruise ship. It consists of 165 apartments mostly owned by residents. A few years back the apartment price was quoted as between $2m and $15m.

I keep wondering how many guests are usually on the ship, given I assume most people who'd spend millions on a flat on a cruise ship probably have residences elsewhere too. Keep imagining it as a near ghost ship (which is not true of course - it has a crew of 280) and a monument to excess.

Just pushed this to Github and Rubygems. I use this for my Ruby editor. It parses the GtkSourceView style XML files if you have GtkSourceView installed, and instantiates Rouge themes for them (Rouge is used by e.g. Gitlab) so you get access to some more themes. It's not perfect because it needs to try to map token types between the GtkSourceView and Rouge lexers, but overall works pretty well.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.stad.social/post/7193

Most of my workspaces are tiling (bspwm), but I have one where all windows are floated.

This is showcasing my own (very minimalist; ~300 lines) unreleased desktop manager written in pure Ruby, using a Ruby font renderer and Ruby X11 client library (both on github), and showing a custom menu written in Ruby that auto-populates with actions based on directory contents, and showing my Ruby terminal showcasing double-width and double-height support (xterm has it, but few others), and a window showing me editing my Ruby text editor with itself...

Oh, and Polybar. One of the terminals is st - the Ruby terminal is a bit wobbly in a few respects still, though I use it more and more. So there are a few non-Ruby bits left. So far.

All of this is messy and buggy and may have dependencies on my environment that haven't been fixed yet, but I thought it'd be fun to show how much you can run on Ruby (I rely on most of these day to day)

The font renderer (used for the desktop manager, menu and the Ruby terminal, the lower left window is st using FreeType; I should've excised that from the screenshot :-) ) https://github.com/vidarh/skrift

The X11 bindings (no xlib; pure Ruby) https://github.com/vidarh/ruby-x11

X bindings for the font renderer: https://github.com/vidarh/skrift-x11

This is not what the terminal code looks like any more; that version used a C-extension, but that's the repo the current version will eventually get pushed to: https://github.com/vidarh/rubyterm

The menu is not on Github yet, but it's fed menu items from a somewhat updated version of this gist - a new version will be up at some point: https://gist.github.com/vidarh/323204137de5293bfe216ec751646525

An out-of-date-and-probably-won't-run-on-your-system version of my text editor (not least it depends on helper scripts I've not yet untangled from my personal setup). The repo will soon be updated: https://github.com/vidarh/re

Picture I took last year. Yes, that's a building. Yes, you can go in.