From 6984a476a8a3f3621b3d22527458295dd29988fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Ashby Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 22:35:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add readme --- readme.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 readme.md diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cf1fe40 --- /dev/null +++ b/readme.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# why + +I loved [Xee³](https://theunarchiver.com/xee), an extremely fast and no-nonsense way to flip through images in a directory quickly. + +The original developer sold it to [MacPaw](https://macpaw.com/), who maintained it for a little while, then their country got invaded by Russia, and they quite understandably stopped being able to update it anymore. + +Some of the bit-twiddling it did to make it really, really fast apparently also doesn't work on Apple Silicon, meaning that it fails to display images at all on new Macs, and MacPaw doesn't have the bandwidth to fix it (they don't even sell it anymore on the App Store). + +I'd try and fork it, but I'm not much of a C developer. But I do know go, and [gitlab.com/cznic/tk9.0](https://gitlab.com/cznic/tk9.0) is a really interesting approach to UI toolkits in go that I've been wanting to try out. + +So, what comes before Z? Y.