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Vaxry's Blog
Personal blog · blog.vaxry.net/articlesprogrammingsystemsculture
Vaxry's Blog is a personal blog at blog.vaxry.net about programming, systems and culture. Since 2023, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Electron Ain't Bad”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-02, and you can follow it by feed.
A programming blog written by Vaxry.
Most-linked posts?
- Electron Ain't Bad5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-04-27
- Misinformation about the Hyprland Community3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-09-18
- Inclusive community activists are harming FOSS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-06
- Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-15
- Hyprland Wlroots Rewrite2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-14
- Come Help Shape Hyprland2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-31
- How Freedesktop/RedHat harass other projects into submission2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-08
- The Linux desktop is self-destructive2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-11
- RedHat employee bans Hyprland creator from FDO2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-09
What Hacker News says?
If only the drama stopped there: * DHH is not only considered racist / fascist due to some blog posts, but also for making Hyprland the default DE in Omarchy, developed by someone who goes by the name Vaxry Vaxerski, who is also considered fascist and racist, and thus banned from contributing to freedesktop projects due to supposed breach of CoC: https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat * Hyprland and all…
Comment linking /articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat
on “Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler”Submitted Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop as a story · 335 points
HN discussion> Back when I was writing xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland Ah, yes, XDG "portals". The reason file selection and screencasting is broken on every new Linux/Wayland installation I do, forcing me to try to understand the insane matrix of supported, half-supported, broken, and unsupported features by the dozen+ different implementations, and come up with the magic configuration incantation that makes it work on my system. B…
Comment linking /articles/2024-linuxInfighting
on “Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop”Submitted Improving cursor rendering on Wayland as a story · 163 points
HN discussion> Does it miss a spec? Write one. FreeDesktop-dot-Org would not accept one from the author if he did: https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat2
Comment linking /articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat2
on “Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop”Submitted RedHat employee bans Hyprland creator from FDO as a story · 51 points
HN discussionThe core of Electron can be made quite efficient and performant. It's just that commercial app developers have few incentives to dedicate significant time and effort towards optimization when modern PCs are this powerful: https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2025-electronAintBad
Comment linking /articles/2025-electronAintBad
on “Felix Rieseberg Homepage”Submitted The Linux desktop is self-destructive as a story · 39 points
HN discussionddevault isn't involved with wlroots for a few years now. The tiff between hyprland and wlroots / freedesktop was because of https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat . See also https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-wlrootsRewrite
Comment linking /articles/2024-wlrootsRewrite
on “Hyprland 0.44”Submitted How Freedesktop/RedHat harass other projects into submission as a story · 26 points
HN discussionIt's a bit of a two edged sword but it's something we definitely need. Look at project like Qubes and Secureblue that try to implement this. It solves several issues: Packaging Apps on Linux has been and always will be, a nightmare. Just giving up and sending whole VMs is basically a variant of what docker does. Permission Management is also quite necessary and Linux Desktop/DBUS is horrible in that regard. There's…
Comment linking /articles/2025-dbusSucks
on “Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan”Submitted The Problems and Shortcomings of Cosmic as a story · 6 points
HN discussionvaxry is quite edgy, doesn't believe in structural marginalization and is also part of the anti-CoC crowd. i think this blog post is all you need to read if you want to know if you specifically want to engage with this community: https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-inclusiveActivists personally i find it quite obnoxious when people pre-empt that i'll have a miserable time by claiming I just need thicker skin to par…
Comment linking /articles/2023-inclusiveActivists
on “Hyprland is now independent, dropping wlroots”Submitted Electron Ain't Bad as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandsCommunity
Comment linking /articles/2023-hyprlandsCommunity
on “Hyprland Is a Toxic Community”Submitted Hyprland Wlroots Rewrite as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Electron Ain't Bad as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Electron Ain't Bad as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hyprland's development isn't what it used to be as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted We don't need more Wayland Compositors as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misinformation about the Hyprland Community as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI, Computer Literacy, and the New Divide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Electron Ain't Bad as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to work full-time without a salary, a.k.a. do FOSS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Come Help Shape Hyprland as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inclusive community activists are harming FOSS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Come Help Shape Hyprland as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inclusive community activists are harming FOSS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misinformation about the Hyprland community as a story · 1 points
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