SHIFT: How a Shell Becomes Convergent
A look at the architecture beneath SHIFT's convergence mode: one configuration flag, a dozen listeners, and what it actually takes to make a phone shell turn into a desktop without restarting.
Posts tagged #linux
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SHIFT: The Third Time I Tried Convergence
A personal note on why I forked Plasma Mobile, what SHIFT does, and why convergence is finally feasible after thirteen years of waiting for the substrate to catch up.
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Karapace: because 'it works on my machine' is not an identity
Why I built a deterministic environment engine, how it compares to Toolbox, Distrobox, Kapsule, mise, and Homebrew, and what 'content-addressed' actually means when you're the one implementing it.
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Y2K38: the bug that's been counting down since 1970
In 2038, a signed 32-bit integer runs out of room to hold time. The openSUSE community is already finding the cracks — and the results are more interesting than you'd expect.