@vixalientoots@mas.to

· 6mo ago

I was inspired by @FineFindus@floss.social and @hbons@mastodon.social to post a bit more on what I'm working on, so here goes!!

I have been working on [Peachy](https://gitlab.gnome.org/vixalien/peachy), a small framework to write GNOME/Linux applications with GTK and React (yes!).

For dogfooding, I've been prototyping a little Hacker News client, since they have a nice and free API with a small scope.

Through the way, I've been adding features to Peachy such as supporting List/Grid views, polyfills etc

#gjs #gnome #react #linux #gtk #hn

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 5mo ago

I keep forgetting I have a selection of random photos I took over the years browsable online.

Maybe it would be a small glimpse of life around these parts of the world

maybe #portfolioday #hobby #photography

https://memories.vixalien.com/

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@monster better DX, and using the tools/ecosystem that were originally built for react/web/npm etc... One thing I heavily dislike in GTK apps is that UI is usually decoupled from the logic (GtkBuilder XML, blueprint) and you need to link them manually. React allows us to build the user interfaces declaratively and reactively, where they're coupled together. This also unlocks a multitude of packages (e.g. zustand, wouter, plugins https://registry.vite.dev/plugins etc...)

registry.vite.dev

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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An advantage of Peachy is that it allows us to use regular* npm packages, in this case we are using the markdown parser from the Lezer/Codemirror project (https://lezer.codemirror.net/)

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 9mo ago

reminder: you can donate to me!

1: https://github.com/sponsors/vixalien/
2: https://buymeacoffee.com/vixalien

github.com

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@lw64 @monster yes, better DX is the goal. And by the way, peachy builds on react, GJS, GTK, rolldown so it natively supports most of their features natively, except stuff that needs plumbing between them like HMR, Suspense, CSS imports, Resources, etc... But otherwise most of the stuff works already

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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RE: https://mas.to/@vixalientoots/116284503838003434 @sashin @FineFindus @hbons not really, it just makes it easier to write GTK applications (DX-wise) with less glue and boilerplate in my experience See also

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@deobald@fantastic.earth @AlexanderVanhee@mastodon.social @jimmac@mastodon.social or.... just work towards making gnome help available again

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@pojntfx @FineFindus @hbons Nice! Your input would be very valuable. It differs from gtkx in that peachy builds on top of GJS while gtkx doesn't, and implements their own bindings. Peachy also uses the same react that's used to write web apps, while I think gtkx implements its own view engine

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@hbons @FineFindus Yeah that's the vision!

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@FineFindus @sashin @hbons yeah that's also a fact! I should probably create a FAQ in the docs

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@lw64 @monster Yeah, we do hang out here often: #typescript:gnome.org

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@jacqueline Not advocating for any of them, but Anthropic famously refused to work with the Department of War. I think you were thinking of OpenAI

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 7mo ago

@FineFindus I think GitHub also has this

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 34mo ago

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@sonny@floss.social I'm very happy to be a GNOME Foundation Member! This is such an important achievement to me and encourages me a lot. Thanks!!

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 34mo ago

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@pi_crew@chaos.social @sonny@floss.social Thanks! 🫱🏽‍🫲🏼

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 10mo ago

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@ariadne I think a blog post highlight new features or what changed would be highly appreciated !

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@craftyguy @carbonatedcaffeine I thought GNOME OS didn’t use mkosi…

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Angelo Verlain @vixalientoots@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@deobald@fantastic.earth @AlexanderVanhee@mastodon.social @jimmac@mastodon.social Yeah but still there's a lot of users unfamiliar with GNOME or Linux still and they could benefit. It's also how I learnt you can use Shift+F10 to open the context menu without a mouse for example. There's also a very outdated index at https://help.gnome.org/ the Help app for user documentation, and the Manuals app for API documention

help.gnome.org

Learn GNOME

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