Am from New Zealand (English speaking Pacific Country)

• First computers were MS DOS and C64 Basic
• NOT afraid of Windows
• daily driver Daily driver is Linux
• just bought a mac for dev purposes

I just got an old HP AIO 200-5000 (2GB RAM) which, though designed for Windows 7, can’t run Windows 7 with service packs. I was thinking of putting something novel on it. ReactOS and Haiku both reached major milestones recently. I intend to see how long I can keep them dual booting on the HP machine. No offence to ROS but Haiku is really special, a completely different way of doing things, so that’s the main one for me.

Studying (full time) BInfSc (software engineering) at uni. Have a Dip IT already.

Strongest languages are (no particular order) js, php, python, c# but I can and do write GUI apps in Qt when I have to using C++. I can monkeypatch any small project into working regardless of language (not BF though). You’ll notice that I didn’t list C++ as a strength, but then said I could write it. People don’t know it can be that way but it do. I can write it fine, I’m just not really good with it right now.

If I have a permanent Haiku setup then I want to expand its app ecosystem a bit. I’m most interested in (again, no particular order):

• tweaking that freecell game a bit
• adding more graphical toolkit recipes (not to promote them, but you know, just for porting, just in case)
• Maybe adding some simple features to WebPositive – I know there are easy tasks deliberately available in that project and it’s very cool. I’d first want to investigate “view source”, dev tools, maybe other minor tweaks, perhaps eventually something for extensions (this would need a lot of consultation… i really like how qupzilla/falkon does it and i think ad blockers are great…)

When I look for things to port, I usually find I’m beaten. I thought that LxQt might have some good utilities to set up while waiting for more faithful native ones. Featherpad looked easy enough to port. Went to github – someone’s already done it. There’s a lot of this about.

Some personal challenges I’d like to do but will probably never complete:

• add another browsing engine
  OR
• add either XUL-style or webextension style extensions to an existing modern browser like webpositive

Thing is, gecko and goanna are both really cool but so tightly integrated that they’re too much work. I don’t want to live under a browser monoculture again with Blink (and webkit) but the firefox buildsystem (with mach) is full of so many moving parts, it’s horrible to get going and I’d rather throw it out.

Servo! Servo, if you can build the correct version of Rust, SHOULD build fine (there are instructions for building without mach, look at ARM instructions) but I haven’t had a go yet. I tried to compile another version of Rust in a VM and locked it up so I want to at least move to real hardware; maybe cross compile hard stuff (like rust) for an easier initial effort.

I’m not real serious, just excited.