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The Pleasure of Accidental Communities

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It was during the shutdowns of 2020 that I became increasingly frustrated with my Intel MacBook pro. It was slow, loud and hot; all the things that many people, myself included, dislike about laptops. I decided to build a PC. After a month or so spent scouring the internet for parts, I had assembled a PC. I ran Pop!_OS for a while, but this being my first desktop machine in over a decade, I spent a fair about of time dual booting into Windows to play all the video games that I missed out on as a macOS user. I was exposed to WSL2, which I came to find was quite a pleasant development environment. My only issue was that I could not find a tiling window manager for Windows that would bring me close to the productivity that I had with yabai on macOS. I decided to build my own. My first attempt was called yatta. If you look at the code, I think it's pretty obvious that this was my first time working with the Win32 API and that this project was largely an exercise of learning in public. Afte…

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