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I used to try Wayland every once in a while and I'd always run into something that was a show stopper. Then, around October of last year, something changed and it became usable for me, so I used it into November. Then, my SSD began failing, I had bought a new SSD, re-installed openSUSE Tumbleweed, and couldn't remember how I had fixed KWallet to work with everything on Wayland. I've still tried it, off and on, and it worked for most things, just not those pesky passwords. Fast-forward to this morning and I dedicated some search time to finding the fix again. I blogged about the fix earlier, it's in the How-to category.
So I've been using Wayland again and it's really really good. I'm gonna play some games later. I'm hoping I can just use it all the time. I normally go from dev work to gaming and I don't like having to log out, re-log into X/Wayland, and vice-versa. I'm just gonna use one or the other, but I prefer Wayland if possible. Anyway, giving it a try again. I'm sure I'll blog an update some time :)
For the past week and a half, I've been working to preserve someone's life work. Someone passed away and they've left behind a giant cache of data, which could, one day soon, be gone forever. Unfortunately, we don't have access to the raw data, just the resulting web site. It has been sobering, combing through it and trying to archive as much as possible. My initial goal is to archive the web site and everything generated from his data. I've mostly accomplished that.
I've also been writing scripts to scrape the data from the thousands of pages, scrape links that aren't in the site map, scrape links to external data sources. It's been a lot of work so far and I don't really have a lot to show for it, in comparison to what it will be eventually. The first step is preserving it, but there are further steps. I don't want to announce what data I'm currently talking about; I don't want someone else swooping in and trying to somehow monetize the opportunity.
A funny video of friend of mine made...