Logged into my very unused GitHub for the first time in forever and learned that I had originally decided on my first version of The Taycat Gradient on March 7th, 2024. So I’ve been using it for over two years!

A cropped screenshot of a GitHub commit, showing ProjectTaycat as the author and a date of March 7th, 2024. The commit message says, 'New colors to freshen things up, galculator should float, forgot what else'

I remember when I used Hyprland, a Wayland tiling compositor, and I thought the ability to set the background of your windows to a gradient instead of just a solid color was so cool. So setting the colors of my window’s borders is where the Taycat Gradient started up.

A snippet of the GitHub code editor displaying the old and new code for ProjectTaycat's Hyprland configuration file. The old code shows a window border size of 3, and a window border gradient of Catppuccin Mocha Red to Blue at 0 degrees. The new code shows a window border size of 4, and a window border gradient of Catppuccin Mocha Mauve to Sky at 50 degrees.

These weren’t the first colors I set for the gradient border though. They originally went from Catppuccin Mocha Red to Blue. I don’t consider that as part of the history of The Taycat Gradient, though, because I only ever used them with Hyprland, and I didn’t start using them everywhere until the border gradient was the one with Catppuccin Mocha Mauve to Sky. So yeah, two years of The Taycat Gradient.

Also it’s 04:36 right now and I just realized I’ve been working on this entry that I thought was gonna be quick took over an hour, what am I doing X_X