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.
Posts tagged #wayland
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The Compositor as a Contract
WEFT OS — Post 4 of 10. Why a Wayland compositor is an authority boundary, and why WEFT treats it as a security contract before it is architecture.
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Why Servo, and Why Now
WEFT OS — Post 3 of 10. Why Servo is a foundation choice, what it implies, and what it costs.
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They Were Right, Just Too Early: Firefox OS, Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish
WEFT OS — Post 2 of 10. Firefox OS, Ubuntu Touch, and Sailfish OS were right about the direction of computing — and arrived before the world was ready to pay for it.
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The Desktop Is a Document
WEFT OS — Post 1 of 10. A desktop shell as an HTML document, and why that is neither a browser skin nor Electron.