{"id":381,"date":"2025-12-28T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/?p=381"},"modified":"2025-12-28T03:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:34:03","slug":"a-big-update-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/blog\/2025\/12\/28\/a-big-update-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Update Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I can probably start posting political shit with my software now. I don&#8217;t have to care, I&#8217;ve almost made it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next OS release will probably ship with a windowing system <strong>but<\/strong> it won&#8217;t work yet. Some teasers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It&#8217;s not Wayland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s not X11 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s not something new<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It may end up as a full fork with new features<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s still a lot of work I&#8217;ve got to do to get it working, and I don&#8217;t know how long that&#8217;ll take maybe that&#8217;ll be a forever thing, but a major port is in progress! I&#8217;m looking at the code right now&#8230; The refactoring has begun, better announcements will be made when it uhhh works (or at least when it compiles for the system).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Implications For Networking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Porting a GUI rather than implementing my own means that I&#8217;ll need to use the network functions (which means I&#8217;ll need to implement my own network functions).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So this happens to be convenient for testing the network functions, and implies that local implementations of those functions will be the first step towards bringing up proper networking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Implications For My Business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This move is part of a shift away from developer tools, towards protocols &amp; standards relevant to consumers. But the initial graphical versions will still be developer-centric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can probably start posting political shit with my software now. I don&#8217;t have to care, I&#8217;ve almost made it. Next OS release will probably ship with a windowing system but it won&#8217;t work yet. Some teasers: There&#8217;s still a lot of work I&#8217;ve got to do to get it working, and I don&#8217;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}