Wesley Moore

I have my system configured¹ to use JoyPixels for emoji, which I consider vastly more attractive than Noto Color Emoji. Sadly GitHub uses browser sniffing to detect Linux user-agents and replaces emoji with (badly aligned) images of Noto Color Emoji. They don't do this on macOS and Windows. In this post I explain how I worked around this.

This week I discovered some details of digital display technology that I was previously unaware of: pixel formats. I have two Dell P2415Q displays connected to my computer. One via DisplayPort, the other via HDMI. The HDMI connected one was misbehaving and showing a dull picture. It turned out I needed to force the HDMI port of my RX560 graphics card to use RGB output instead of YCbCr. However, the amdgpu driver does not expose a means to do this. So, I used an EDID hack to make it look like the display only supported RGB.

I don't have time to build all the things I'd like to build, so I'm offering bounties on the following work.

Recently I aliased top to ytop. Then I became aware of bottom, and zenith. These are all terminal based system monitoring tools that you might use instead of top. In this post I set out to compare them.

It's been more than 10 years since I started working on the previous design for this website 😅. This feels like a good point to come up with a new one!