Gary "grim" Kramlich
@grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Pidgin Lead Developer/Maintainer, Democratic Socialist, Premature Internet Activist, Twitch Affiliate. My opinions are my own. 🐥🐦🐧
I'm not burnt out, I went […]
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I'm not burnt out, I went […]
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Speed running a protocol plugin implementation is interesting... But this is a legit connection... At least in the sense that I've provided a email and password and gotten an API token back.
I decided on Sunday night that Zulip was going to be our next […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
I decided on Sunday night that Zulip was going to be our next […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
February 12, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Speed running a protocol plugin implementation is interesting... But this is a legit connection... At least in the sense that I've provided a email and password and gotten an API token back.
I decided on Sunday night that Zulip was going to be our next […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
I decided on Sunday night that Zulip was going to be our next […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
just venting here for a second... I have a decent sized feral cat colony around my house. This past weekend I took one of them to the vet because he was in bad shape. They said it was just an URI and that he was actually TNR'd by a local non profit that takes […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
February 11, 2026 at 8:11 AM
just venting here for a second... I have a decent sized feral cat colony around my house. This past weekend I took one of them to the vet because he was in bad shape. They said it was just an URI and that he was actually TNR'd by a local non profit that takes […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Reposted by Gary "grim" Kramlich
Nice! The #xmpp logo is now officially part of Font-Awesome. 🎉
https://fontawesome.com/icons/xmpp?f=brands&s=solid
https://fontawesome.com/icons/xmpp?f=brands&s=solid
Xmpp Icon | Font Awesome
Xmpp icon in the Brands style. Available now in Font Awesome.
fontawesome.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Nice! The #xmpp logo is now officially part of Font-Awesome. 🎉
https://fontawesome.com/icons/xmpp?f=brands&s=solid
https://fontawesome.com/icons/xmpp?f=brands&s=solid
Greetings programs! We're back tonight working on @pidgin Experimental 6! Focusing on the brand new Zulip plugin. Come on by!!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #messaging #livecoding
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #messaging #livecoding
rw_grim - Twitch
Making Pidgin The Universal Chat Client! | C/GTK
www.twitch.tv
February 10, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Greetings programs! We're back tonight working on @pidgin Experimental 6! Focusing on the brand new Zulip plugin. Come on by!!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #messaging #livecoding
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #messaging #livecoding
RE: https://mastodon.online/@reviewboard/116043131041247084
Looks like there's some really good stuff in here for @pidgin contributors 🎉
Looks like there's some really good stuff in here for @pidgin contributors 🎉
mastodon.online
February 9, 2026 at 10:57 PM
RE: https://mastodon.online/@reviewboard/116043131041247084
Looks like there's some really good stuff in here for @pidgin contributors 🎉
Looks like there's some really good stuff in here for @pidgin contributors 🎉
Reposted by Gary "grim" Kramlich
February 9, 2026 at 8:59 PM
What timing. We just started looking at #zulip and determined that it'll be the next protocol plugin we build. I setup a server and am not sure if that will become an official support channel but it has a better chance than #Discord ever did.
The @pidgin #discord server was never an "official […]
The @pidgin #discord server was never an "official […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
February 9, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Greetings Programs!! We're back at it tonight working on @pidgin 3 Experimental 6! Come on by!!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #opensource #livecoding
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #opensource #livecoding
rw_grim - Twitch
Making Pidgin The Universal Chat Client! | C/GTK
www.twitch.tv
February 6, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Greetings Programs!! We're back at it tonight working on @pidgin 3 Experimental 6! Come on by!!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #opensource #livecoding
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #opensource #livecoding
Just a reminder to everyone. There are **REAL** people behind Open Source. Making absurd comments in your news story like "the project is on borrowed time" without even requesting a comment from them is frankly, irresponsible.
https://betanews.com/article/xubuntu-linux-dumps-open-source-pidgin/ […]
https://betanews.com/article/xubuntu-linux-dumps-open-source-pidgin/ […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
February 5, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Just a reminder to everyone. There are **REAL** people behind Open Source. Making absurd comments in your news story like "the project is on borrowed time" without even requesting a comment from them is frankly, irresponsible.
https://betanews.com/article/xubuntu-linux-dumps-open-source-pidgin/ […]
https://betanews.com/article/xubuntu-linux-dumps-open-source-pidgin/ […]
Reposted by Gary "grim" Kramlich
It looks likely that the province of Alberta will have a referendum on whether it should secede from Canada. The group organizing the petition to trigger the referendum claims to have met with senior Trump administration officials several times, and U.S. lawmakers have claimed that Albertans […]
Original post on flipboard.social
flipboard.social
February 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM
It looks likely that the province of Alberta will have a referendum on whether it should secede from Canada. The group organizing the petition to trigger the referendum claims to have met with senior Trump administration officials several times, and U.S. lawmakers have claimed that Albertans […]
Reposted by Gary "grim" Kramlich
People who are "just asking questions" and "just sharing their opinion" that nobody asked for are in the minority here.
But until reply controls are implemented by more fediverse platforms, they will continue to ruin the experience of people here, and contribute to our community's negative […]
But until reply controls are implemented by more fediverse platforms, they will continue to ruin the experience of people here, and contribute to our community's negative […]
Original post on stefanbohacek.online
stefanbohacek.online
February 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
People who are "just asking questions" and "just sharing their opinion" that nobody asked for are in the minority here.
But until reply controls are implemented by more fediverse platforms, they will continue to ruin the experience of people here, and contribute to our community's negative […]
But until reply controls are implemented by more fediverse platforms, they will continue to ruin the experience of people here, and contribute to our community's negative […]
RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116014464684178210
This is a problem we've faced in @pidgin as well and I'm really curious to see how @debian moves forward and see if we can learn a thing or two from them.
#opensource
This is a problem we've faced in @pidgin as well and I'm really curious to see how @debian moves forward and see if we can learn a thing or two from them.
#opensource
masto.ai
February 4, 2026 at 10:11 PM
RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116014464684178210
This is a problem we've faced in @pidgin as well and I'm really curious to see how @debian moves forward and see if we can learn a thing or two from them.
#opensource
This is a problem we've faced in @pidgin as well and I'm really curious to see how @debian moves forward and see if we can learn a thing or two from them.
#opensource
On last night's stream a YouTube viewer asked why I didn't use AI. I gave the standard response of "I actually like to write code..." among others.
And then today I see this story... 🤣
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/github_kill_switch_pull_requests_ai/
#ai #slop #sloperator
And then today I see this story... 🤣
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/github_kill_switch_pull_requests_ai/
#ai #slop #sloperator
GitHub ponders kill switch for pull requests to stop AI slop
: Code community site begins to see that AI could drive people away
www.theregister.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:00 PM
On last night's stream a YouTube viewer asked why I didn't use AI. I gave the standard response of "I actually like to write code..." among others.
And then today I see this story... 🤣
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/github_kill_switch_pull_requests_ai/
#ai #slop #sloperator
And then today I see this story... 🤣
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/github_kill_switch_pull_requests_ai/
#ai #slop #sloperator
Greetings Programs!! We're back at it working on @pidgin 3.0 Experimental 6! Come on by!!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #chat #messaging
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #chat #messaging
rw_grim - Twitch
Making Pidgin The Universal Chat Client! | C/GTK | !card
www.twitch.tv
February 3, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Greetings Programs!! We're back at it working on @pidgin 3.0 Experimental 6! Come on by!!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #chat #messaging
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #chat #messaging
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@marga/115999802623557360
Great talk and covers a lot of the things contributing to my current bought of burn out...
Great talk and covers a lot of the things contributing to my current bought of burn out...
hachyderm.io
February 2, 2026 at 10:39 PM
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@marga/115999802623557360
Great talk and covers a lot of the things contributing to my current bought of burn out...
Great talk and covers a lot of the things contributing to my current bought of burn out...
Just wasted an hour or more debugging a flatpak extension problem because I was building the extension on a different machine 🤦 clearly sleep is necessary, but it works now 😜
#pidgin #opensource #debugging
#pidgin #opensource #debugging
February 2, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Just wasted an hour or more debugging a flatpak extension problem because I was building the extension on a different machine 🤦 clearly sleep is necessary, but it works now 😜
#pidgin #opensource #debugging
#pidgin #opensource #debugging
Greetings programs!! Two streams in a week, wow you all must have been very well behaved!! 🤣
Seriously though we're back at it tonight working on @pidgin 3.0 Experimental 6 trying real hard to make it Alpha 1!! Come on by!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin […]
Seriously though we're back at it tonight working on @pidgin 3.0 Experimental 6 trying real hard to make it Alpha 1!! Come on by!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
January 30, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Greetings programs!! Two streams in a week, wow you all must have been very well behaved!! 🤣
Seriously though we're back at it tonight working on @pidgin 3.0 Experimental 6 trying real hard to make it Alpha 1!! Come on by!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin […]
Seriously though we're back at it tonight working on @pidgin 3.0 Experimental 6 trying real hard to make it Alpha 1!! Come on by!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin […]
Reposted by Gary "grim" Kramlich
"The penalty with LLMs is that you eventually run out of people's work to steal"
January 29, 2026 at 7:34 PM
"The penalty with LLMs is that you eventually run out of people's work to steal"
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@joshbressers/115978774316009563
Another great writeup!
You kind of eluded to this, but I'd like to explicitly say that the time since the last commit isn't a good metric of a project being inactive either. People get side tracked by all sorts of things and usually […]
Another great writeup!
You kind of eluded to this, but I'd like to explicitly say that the time since the last commit isn't a good metric of a project being inactive either. People get side tracked by all sorts of things and usually […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
January 29, 2026 at 5:52 PM
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@joshbressers/115978774316009563
Another great writeup!
You kind of eluded to this, but I'd like to explicitly say that the time since the last commit isn't a good metric of a project being inactive either. People get side tracked by all sorts of things and usually […]
Another great writeup!
You kind of eluded to this, but I'd like to explicitly say that the time since the last commit isn't a good metric of a project being inactive either. People get side tracked by all sorts of things and usually […]
Digging for some historical information in the @pidgin repo and came across this gem of a commit message..
> Apparently if you don't cvs add a directory before you cvs add files in that directory, cvs just puts the files in the napster directory. ... Seems logical enough to me […]
> Apparently if you don't cvs add a directory before you cvs add files in that directory, cvs just puts the files in the napster directory. ... Seems logical enough to me […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
January 28, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Digging for some historical information in the @pidgin repo and came across this gem of a commit message..
> Apparently if you don't cvs add a directory before you cvs add files in that directory, cvs just puts the files in the napster directory. ... Seems logical enough to me […]
> Apparently if you don't cvs add a directory before you cvs add files in that directory, cvs just puts the files in the napster directory. ... Seems logical enough to me […]
Greetings Programs!! It's been a minute, but the work on @pidgin 3 continues regardless and tonight it'll be live for all of you to enjoy!
Come on by!!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #opensource #livecoding
Come on by!!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #opensource #livecoding
rw_grim - Twitch
Making Pidgin The Universal Chat Client! | C/GTK | !card
www.twitch.tv
January 27, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Greetings Programs!! It's been a minute, but the work on @pidgin 3 continues regardless and tonight it'll be live for all of you to enjoy!
Come on by!!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #opensource #livecoding
Come on by!!
https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
https://youtube.com/@rw_grim
#Pidgin #opensource #livecoding
So I know you're not supposed to update #wikipedia pages that you're biased towards, but I just looked at updating the preview release on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software) and I have NFI what I'm looking at for the side bar...
Anyone that's more versed in Wikipedia wanted to add […]
Anyone that's more versed in Wikipedia wanted to add […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
January 26, 2026 at 10:47 PM
So I know you're not supposed to update #wikipedia pages that you're biased towards, but I just looked at updating the preview release on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software) and I have NFI what I'm looking at for the side bar...
Anyone that's more versed in Wikipedia wanted to add […]
Anyone that's more versed in Wikipedia wanted to add […]