Clojurians Log v2

very interesting second photo! Do you know what they are doing? Is there something special they are forming around, or is this just bees doing bee stuff?

They are looking for a new place to make a hive

So they cluster on a branch while scouts look for a suitable place. Then there is some kind of "voting" process involving dances to communicate candidate places to the cluster. When enough votes come in, the entire cluster follows along to the new place. I saw them take off but don't know where they landed. Fascinating to behold.

Wow! Amazing. You get the front row seat.

Yeah, some of them were stuck in my house!

about 60 of them in the living room

At first I couldn't find the cluster, i thought they were somewhere in the roof structure. The day after no sign of them until they started moving, then the noise makes their whereabouts obvious.

It might be a colony that escaped a hive of a local beekeeper.

Maybe the hive box became too small.

This is how the bees naturally reproduce the population. The queen leaves the hive with part of the population and they look for a new place. The bees that stay behind then get their own new queen. I usually get several swarms like this in my Orchard every year. If you know any local beekeepers then they are usually interested in swarms so they can catch them to get a new hive

Yep I contacted a beekeeper, but the swarm left 5 minutes before he arrived with tools to collect them 😅. Would have been pretty difficult because the cluster was on a branch about 15-20m up in the tree.

do you feel happy or sad they left? Would probably have been interesting, but maybe a bit of a problem if you're to co-habit your living room with about 50 of the bees?

Not sad, nature did its thing. Just hope they find a nice place. Cohabitation would have been a bit tedious 😉

I never got the point of tiling WMs. I always work full screen anyway, no more than three windows (Emacs, terminal, browser)

Do you show a single buffer full screen in Emacs, or do you split it in multiple "windows" (Emacs parlance, ie. not "frames")?

I do view multiple buffers in Emacs, but more than a couple of files to keep track of is usually too much for me

You might want to give KDE with Kröhnkite a spin as well. I find it works very well and gets out of my way. https://codeberg.org/anametologin/Krohnkite

Emacs is my tiling window manager most of the time 😆

That said, if I were switching away from MacOS I would really want to try Niri

It makes sense because Emacs is a good operating system (lacking only ...) Besides a browser I just use the good operating system inside the okay operating system

Niri's side scrolling is interesting. I never really wanted infinitely small windows just because I created many Windows 😄

Yeah, I found that floating window rules became necessary with i3 for the less regular apps and control panels. Niro looks really interesting! Really cool to hear about your purchase, btw!

niri looks interesting! I was an xmonad user for about a decade, before wayland made me switch to sway. The virtual desktop model is etched deep into my muscle memory. It's especially nice with multiple monitors.

Niri does indeed look interesting - hadn't come across it before. I was on i3 for years, and now on sway for the last few (because wayland) -- very happy with that experience. Echo the sentiment re. multiple monitors -- a tiling WM + multiple monitors makes for a great keyboard-centric workflow.

Multiple DPI support has come on in leaps and bounds on Wayland in recent years -- scaling now works really well moving windows between screens of different resolutions and sizes. In the early days you had to either deal with nasty visual artefacts or just forego scaling and go with least-worst-compromise font-sizes. At the desk I work off my laptop screen and three external monitors -- a big one in landscape and two smaller ones in portrait to either side.