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probonopd / Wayland.md
Last active May 8, 2026 07:03
Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything!

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

tl;dr: Wayland is not "the future", it is merely an incompatible alternative to the established standard with a different set of priorities and goals.

Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating e

@moshest
moshest / p2p-list.md
Last active February 13, 2022 09:33
A collection of peer-to-peer decentralized projects.
@acolyer
acolyer / service-checklist.md
Last active February 16, 2026 02:23
Internet Scale Services Checklist

Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

Basic tenets

  • Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
  • Have we kept things as simple as possible?
@susatadahiro
susatadahiro / check_domain
Created September 13, 2012 09:56
check domain expired. nagios plugins.
#/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_domain
#nagios plugins
#original:
#http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Internet-Domains-and-WHOIS/check_domain/details
#
#this plugins can check
# example.co.jp (level 3 domain)
# example.jp (level 2 domain)
#
#usage:
@MohamedAlaa
MohamedAlaa / tmux-cheatsheet.markdown
Last active May 8, 2026 22:00
tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname
@lrvick
lrvick / bitcolor.js
Created March 18, 2012 20:02
Javascript functions for doing fast binary/hex/RGB color conversions using bitwise operations.
// convert 0..255 R,G,B values to binary string
RGBToBin = function(r,g,b){
var bin = r << 16 | g << 8 | b;
return (function(h){
return new Array(25-h.length).join("0")+h
})(bin.toString(2))
}
// convert 0..255 R,G,B values to a hexidecimal color string
RGBToHex = function(r,g,b){
@nrabinowitz
nrabinowitz / quantize.js
Created July 25, 2011 17:19
Javascript module for color quantization, based on Leptonica
/*!
* quantize.js Copyright 2008 Nick Rabinowitz.
* Licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
*/
// fill out a couple protovis dependencies
/*!
* Block below copied from Protovis: http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/
* Copyright 2010 Stanford Visualization Group
* Licensed under the BSD License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php