redstrate's Blog

This website has been running almost non-stop since November 2020, according to archive.org.

I will not be renewing my Apple Developer License for various reasons I’ve already discussed elsewhere.

New Gamepad KCM The Joystick KCM is pretty bad shape right now, for numerous reasons: What the heck is a joystick?

This is a non-comprehensive list of all of the major work I’ve done for KDE this month of January.

Some more progress has been made on fixing my newest drawing tablet!

So I bought an art tablet this year, the XP-Pen Artist 22R Pro which comes with a pen.

It’s time to review another Rebuild of Evangelion figure, and this time it’s Mari again!

This is a retrospective of one of my more successful projects and first paid program, Silica Viewer.

If you’ve been a part of any language that upheaves the traditional C way of pulling in dependencies, like Rust or Go - you might have heard of this statement before, or something like it: “I suggest not choosing X, it hasn’t received updates in a couple…

As an artist, I didn’t really see the value of burdening myself with a website until I actually did it.

Note: This has been sitting in my drafts since 2022, and I don't have any immediate plans to finish it.

The Linux graphics stack is a complex mechanism of many projects that function in unison to deliver images to your screen.

This is a continuation of my ‘Thoughts and Tips on Mastodon", today we’ll focus on blocking servers from federation.

Seeing the “collapse” of Twitter (although that’s overstated) means a lot more people are joining Mastodon so I wanted to collect all of my thoughts.

I have been transferring all of my websites and services from my Arch Docker setup to a bare-metal Gentoo box, but got tripped up when setting up fail2ban.

If any Matrix admins are reading this, I have a quick update at what’s happening to my two old matrix servers: redstrate.com and ryne.moe.

In my series of purging my content on proprietary platforms I don’t align with anymore, the next on the chopping block is Twitter.

I’m very sorry about the delay, but a new release of Astra is upon us!

Today we’re reviewing the Flare reissue of the YoRHa No. 2 Type B released by Square Enix, a company that despite being very, very controlling of their merchandise has the absolute worst online store ever.

It’s uh, been a while since the last Prism changelog :-) Haha, well there’s as always a ton of interesting changes to go over!

Note: Recent Plasma versions now have the ability to select KDE Marble as the default maps application, and KAddressBook dropped support for setting the This is probably the most specific use case I’ll ever post on this blog :-p I noticed whenever I click…

Note: This blog post is old, and has a follow-up post.

In under an hour, I was able to port my already existing Vulkan code from Prism to Metal using MoltenVK.

Hello again!

These two months contain some pretty big changes I made to Prism, following a short hiatus from the project.