Notices by Ritchie (acidiclight@mastodon.social)

mastodon moved the notifications button two items down and that's going to fuck my muscle memory for at least 3.74 months

petition to rename kwin to wink

@BrodieOnLinux in fairness this was not related to KDE, Qt has documentation for this stuff. I was trying to get orca to read my game engine's custom UI system, or at least see SOMETHING. Segfaults, doublefrees, and stack overflows ensued.

C# debugability tip: Do not handle unexpected exceptions in your library and wrap them in a "friendly" "failed to do a thing" exception.

Seriously. Don't.

If the exception is unexpected, it's because of an internal bug. I'd like to actually be able to see where the damn bug happened.

This makes it even more official :)
https://acidiclight.dev/my-work/kde-accessibility

Right. Enough suspense.

This merge request makes it official. https://invent.kde.org/websites/ev-kde-org/-/merge_requests/145

I've joined up with @kde as an Accessibility Engineer.

You know *exactly* what that means, and yes - the coffee and C++ muscle memory is ready.

Hello, #KDE community :)

#accessibility

I have news.

@BrodieOnLinux the best part is

someone designed an icon for it.

@BrodieOnLinux Go look into AI Labyrinth by Cloudflare. It's the exact kind of arms race you're thinking of.

So it turns out that sometimes the Orca screen reader just likes to crash, take speech-dispatcher down with it, and break text-to-speech in every app that tries to use it until you reboot, causing indefinite hangs in some cases. That's....not very ideal....

Annnnnnd that's Kate/KWrite done.

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/-/merge_requests/797

#KDE #accessibility

I am blind. That's a fact.

I will draw attention to it.

Because we exist.

We should be heard, we are people just like you.

To suggest otherwise is ableist.

I've had enough negativity for the day. I just wanna say, to everyone out there, especially my close friends @TheEvilSkeleton , @m88youngling and @BrodieOnLinux ,

I love you guys.

And to the companies out there trying to make the world more accessible, I love ya's too.

hello cosmic, ritchie was here
https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/issues/1237

It's time to start taking this game's development a little more seriously.

So I wrote a Socially Distant roadmap for next year. :)

https://sociallydistantgame.com/devlogs/2025-roadmap/

As software maintainers, our role (no matter the person or the project) is to be a leader. You need to lead by example and help others help you. If you don't want help, that's totally fine, do not accept contributions.

If you accept contributions, you must be willing to accept help even if it costs you time to help the person become familiar with your code. Not everybody can learn just off of docs or source code, and discouraging people with less skill is not the correct way to fix the problem

Dear unnamed software maintainer,

I don't care who you are, what your background/mindset is, how well-written/documented your code is, or how many people can contribute to it on their own without your help.

Some people need a hand. I do. I'm blind. And if you're the one who got banned from the FDO for toxic behaviour, you have no right to call me a retard or tell me to sink or swim when I ask you for help fixing a bug in your code.