Posts by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AGozJheO0Ibn1qvgsi by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2022-02-25T02:37:50Z
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Great news everyone: @haiku nightlies now have initial support for USB WiFi adapters! (Realtek devices only at present, but more should come later.) Upgrade to hrev55907+ and make sure they're plugged in before booting if you want to try it out.
(DIR) Post #AHFavr6cAVLDGRs68u by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2022-03-09T22:42:54Z
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Now on the @haiku blog: a February Contract & Activity report, from me, featuring USB WiFi support, a slew of kernel fixes, and more. https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2022-03-07_haiku_activity_contract_report_february_2022/
(DIR) Post #AIuTdamATUoU5kG4FE by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2022-04-28T13:46:24Z
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I finally got an overconfidently negative Hacker News comment about something I did (Xlibe, the Xlib/X11 compatibility layer for Haiku) that I got to fisk. What fun! (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31192099)
(DIR) Post #ALIujVwgvMiUZzcVqi by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2022-07-09T04:36:36Z
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From extrowerk: screenshots of 802.11ac-mode WiFi working on Haiku with the new drivers I ported from OpenBSD. (He tells me the speedtest server isn't just right around the corner, either :)
(DIR) Post #AMDZwdMaxgMwgKkQMq by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2022-08-05T12:40:45Z
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Achievement unlocked: fixed a bug in the core logic of @haiku's kernel thread scheduler, which provided a nice 10% performance boost in some benchmarks (and fixed a recent whole-system-hang regression) 😀 https://github.com/haiku/haiku/commit/8dc67def4b11c4f93af85b51ec1e9b2de6973f92
(DIR) Post #AP4QyHb9FOZAntGZAu by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2022-10-29T15:55:59Z
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One thing I really miss from Twitter on here is merged notifications. Having a long stream of boosts/favorites/follows instead of just "X people followed you" or the like seems much nicer than individual items for every account. But I guess most prefer the other way?
(DIR) Post #AQNdW4CVqptRn8dd8C by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2022-12-08T00:38:26Z
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On the eve of the R1/beta4 release, @haiku gets its best web browser yet: a port of GTKWebKit & GNOME Web (!) running on top of the new Wayland (!!) compatibility layer. Pretty much all the “daily driver” tasks that were hit-and-miss (if at all) with previous browsers work.
(DIR) Post #AU7hFEQ0BkTuz02y5A by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2023-03-29T23:32:40Z
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Spent some time on Haiku's homegrown `strace`.Previously:open(0x5, "plaintext", 0x2042, 0x0) = 0x8000000f () (49 us)map_file("libicuuc.so.66 mmap area", 0x7f04c2675228, 0x6, 0x1ababd0, 0x1, 0x0, true, 0x3, 0x0) = 0x329a0 () (108 us)Now:open(0x5, "plaintext", O_RDWR | O_NOTRAVERSE | O_CLOEXEC, 0x0) = 0x8000000f Operation not allowed (57 us)map_file("libicuuc.so.66 mmap area", [0x0], B_RANDOMIZED_ANY_ADDRESS, 0x1ababd0, B_READ_AREA, 0x0, true, 0x3, 0x0) = 0x73e8 ([0x6392223000]) (135 us)
(DIR) Post #AUcZ37B4O1VoY5f6fo by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2023-04-13T20:42:05Z
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@pulkomandy Window resize crash isn't new, it's always been there, it was just intermittent before (when undroidwish had GL disabled, that probably makes the difference.) You can find stack traces on HaikuPorts bugtracker from months ago.It may be easier, if you don't mind digging in to Tk internals, to just fix the issue with stacking order on Xlibe... I can give you pointers of where I got stumped there.
(DIR) Post #AUzSmnmsF0NWj7ywds by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2023-04-24T20:03:10Z
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Achievement unlocked: write an article which remains in the HN top 10 for over 2 hours, accumulating close to 50 points, which receives ... absolutely no comments.
(DIR) Post #AVaN50yyzfcKYOkn5s by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2023-05-12T17:26:03Z
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@haiku I wonder: who else besides me gets to select "Professional use" for Haiku on the Developer Survey? :D
(DIR) Post #AYC0UZQ9RZxgE2kvk8 by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2023-07-29T16:55:56Z
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Just merged into the @haiku development branch: a kernel event-queuing facility and then a BSD kqueue(2) implementation on top of it, which will enable much more efficient event handling in libuv (node.js), WINE, and plenty more applications!
(DIR) Post #AcFKld8qGVPYkzJQXY by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2023-11-27T22:32:49Z
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@pulkomandy I guess I don't read this as "advertising" Matrix, it's just mentioning we do have a Matrix bridge for users that prefer that to IRC (of which there are a lot, it appears.) I kind of doubt someone would join Matrix purely because of this post?
(DIR) Post #AcLNknGIcOYOfKqvJ2 by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2023-11-30T20:57:27Z
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Just merged into @haiku development branch: fully working TUN support! 🎉 (There’s also TAP in there too, but it may or may not be working just yet.) Connecting via OpenVPN works (but some fiddling with routes is required.)
(DIR) Post #AkH50bfElycR1Pbxrs by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2024-07-25T02:03:17Z
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Last week, I fixed a bunch of bugs in @haiku's profiler. But of course one doesn't simply fix bugs in a profiler without doing some profiling with it. And then I noticed some easily-fixed problems, and then, and then… well, in the end, a compile benchmark is ~23% faster now (!)
(DIR) Post #AkuYjfwSBqNb9hwavY by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2024-08-13T03:12:23Z
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In this month’s Haiku Activity Report: details about the recent performance improvements, a bunch of bugfixes, a new FAT driver, and a beta5 status update (soon...): https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2024-08-12-haiku_activity_contract_report_july_2024/
(DIR) Post #AmsJuKdwN4hzmzbxRY by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2024-10-10T20:17:54Z
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Following up on last month’s memory usage reductions for Haiku packagefs (https://mastodon.social/@waddlesplash/113088469227620879):I’ve merged some more changes in this area (another 5-6MB saved here and there)... and then topped off the set with a pretty major memory leak fix related to package support in the BIOS bootloader, which reduces after-boot memory usage by over 100 MB on most systems!
(DIR) Post #AqW0hItXRA0u9nSUxk by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T17:09:40Z
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Something new: I’m going to try streaming some @haiku development on Twitch this afternoon, probably around 2:30pm EST (7:30pm GMT). I’ll be looking at userspace ELF symbol resolution in the kernel debugger stack trace generator. Come take a look! https://www.twitch.tv/waddlesplash
(DIR) Post #AqW0hKDQWhW6FlltbM by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2025-01-27T18:08:49Z
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Going to do another stream of Haiku development on Twitch this afternoon, again around 2:30pm EST (7:30pm GMT), this time looking at caching kernel thread stacks. Come take a look! https://www.twitch.tv/waddlesplash
(DIR) Post #B1Bc4potS8zSA7hOHg by waddlesplash@mastodon.social
2025-12-12T22:29:49Z
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Another month, another @haiku activity report... but this time, I wrote it from within Haiku itself, using the newly available Go port to preview the website live! Read it here: https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2025-12-12-haiku_activity_contract_report_november_2025/