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Personal blog · valdyas.org/fadingprogrammingdesign

welcome to valdyas.org is a personal blog at valdyas.org about programming and design. Since 2013, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “About “Qt offering changes 2020””. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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20mentions?
16HN people?
2013–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this Krita developer's blog for posts on Krita's history, porting Krita from Qt 4 to Qt 5, and the Qt Company's end of LTS releases, with the Qt post praised as excellent.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. About “Qt offering changes 2020”
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-01-28
  2. Krita 3.0, or the agony of unnecesary API breaks
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-06
  3. Appimages, Snaps, XDG-Apps^WFlatpaks
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-17
  4. Ten years of working on Krita
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. sho_hn · 2014-02-08
    Krita was started in 1999, only four years after GIMP. For most of their existence, these two programs have been developed in parallel. http://slangkamp.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/10-years-of-krita/ http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/kde/krita_10_years.h... Part of the reason Krita development has accelerated massively in the last couple of years is that its team decided on a clear mission statement at some point…

    Comment linking /fading/index.cgi/kde/krita_10_years.html

    on “FOSS Photoshop killer Krita may release on Steam [video]”
  2. todsacerdoti · 2020-07-18

    Submitted Krita, OpenGL and Qt as a story · 295 points

    HN discussion
  3. dman · 2015-06-10
    Wanted to add this link by a Krita developer describing their experience porting from Qt4 to Qt5 - http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/2015/04/06#portingkr...

    Comment linking /fading/index.cgi/2015/04/06

    on “CopperSpice, a Modern C++ Fork of Qt”
  4. hiena03 · 2019-10-25

    Submitted Back from the Blender Conference as a story · 115 points

    HN discussion
  5. slezyr · 2020-01-28
    > As for Krita, we’re using Qt 5.12 for our binaries because we carry a lot of patches that would need porting to Qt 5.13 or 5.14 and because Qt 5.13 turned out to be very, very buggy. For Krita, using a stable version of Qt that gets bug fixes is pretty important, and that will be a problem, because we will lose access to those versions. https://valdyas.org/fading/software/about-qt-offering-change... You need a LTS…

    Comment linking /fading/software/about-qt-offering-changes-2020/

    on “The Qt Company is stopping Qt LTS releases. KDE is going to be fine”
  6. hnha · 2013-10-02

    Submitted Ten years of working on Krita as a story · 67 points

    HN discussion
  7. jrepinc · 2020-01-28
    Another KDE developer (famous for Krita painting app) shares his thoughts aboout this: https://valdyas.org/fading/software/about-qt-offering-change...

    Comment linking /fading/software/about-qt-offering-changes-2020/

    on “The Qt Company is stopping Qt LTS releases. KDE is going to be fine”
  8. Liriel · 2019-11-13

    Submitted We shouldn’t blame ourselves for the Linux desktop’s microscopic market share as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  9. RossBencina · 2020-02-15Recommends
    It didn't get any traction on HN at the time, but I thought the following blog post about Qt offering changes, from a long-time Qt user, was excellent: https://valdyas.org/fading/software/about-qt-offering-change... HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22177821

    Comment linking /fading/software/about-qt-offering-changes-2020/

    on “Qt 5.15 Alpha”
  10. oever · 2015-05-29

    Submitted Why aren't you using GitHub? as a story · 44 points

    HN discussion
  11. boudewijnrempt · 2020-02-21
    Meh. Pikers. Our campaign started in 1992, with a home-grown system -- https://valdyas.org/aurea.html -- and it hasn't ended yet. Though we've got a lot of arcs.

    Comment linking /aurea.html

    on “There are enough good RPGs to fit on a 20-sided die”
  12. dmoreno · 2015-06-01

    Submitted Why aren't you using GitHub? as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  13. dmoreno · 2015-04-06

    Submitted Krita 3.0, or the agony of unnecesary API breaks as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  14. RossBencina · 2020-01-29

    Submitted About “Qt offering changes 2020” as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  15. boudewijnrempt · 2020-02-22

    Submitted Why it's a bad idea for a big company to outsource customer service as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. raghukamath · 2019-11-06

    Submitted Professional Free Software as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. ashitlerferad · 2016-06-18

    Submitted Appimages, Snaps, XDG-Apps^WFlatpaks as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. TangerineDream · 2022-07-15

    Submitted A tale of too many Macs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. baldfat · 2016-06-17

    Submitted Appimages, Snaps, XDG-Apps^WFlatpaks – Developer Persepctive as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. ashitlerferad · 2016-06-12

    Submitted The 2016 Kickstarter as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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