I'm writing a Wayland client that draws the X root weave just to really confuse those of us who remember it. And I'm doing it with Vulkan and Rust, which I gather is particularly upsetting to some oddly sensitive people.
I have good reasons for why all of the above are the right choice for what I'm doing, but after seeing how some people reacted last week to the "news" that I was writing Wayland-related software at all, frankly I'm also happy to further upset those people in particular. Spitefulness is wildly out of character for me but, seriously, what the fuck
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Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple
If you are of a certain vintage, this image is burned indelibly somewhere in your posterior parietal complex:
Oh, my old friend. How it’s been a long time.
Cultural Significance For the uninitiated, what are we looking at? Could it be the Moiré Error from Doom? Well, no. You are looking at (part of) the boot up screen for the X Window System, specifically the pattern it uses as the background of the root window. This pattern is technically called a stipple.
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@jamey this sounds excellent on all fronts 😄️