Sander van Dragt's Notes

Lamb 0.11.0 TL;DR

Sander Yesterday at 10:21 am

Editor & reading improvements (interactive task lists, image modal, iOS paste-as-link fix), better defaults for new installs, and a week-long admin session.

Feed ingestion now prevents duplicates and won't overwrite manually edited posts. Per-post OpenGraph images, cleaner pagination URLs, and Micropub diagnostics added.

Security fixes include hardened redirects against header injection and proper 403 responses for bad Micropub tokens.

Upgrade note: Sessions moved to a new directory, you'll be logged out once on upgrade.

As always: https://github.com/svandragt/lamb

#lamb #projects
Sander Thursday at 8:27 am

An idea: are there any nail clippers that collect the clippings in a compartment? I’d buy one!
Sander Wednesday at 7:22 pm

Pretty tempted to try out a Nintendo Switch Linux setup without joycons with keyboard attachment as a cyber deck! Not sure if it’s viable.

I keep thinking it would be nice but probably a small Thinkpad laptop would beat it in convenience.
Sander Tuesday at 11:31 pm

🐑 #Lamb dev log: now generates sitemap.xml + robots.txt (auto-derived from private routes), adds microformats2 (h-entry/h-card) markup, and logs failed admin logins. Plus bug fixes: editor scroll jump, smarter post-delete redirects, hardened password tooling & Micropub 403s.

Tuesday at 8:44 am

Do I already own this game, and where? gamecheck searches your owned-game libraries across Steam, GOG, Epic and Amazon and prints any matches with the store they're on.

I've been working a bit and have good cli output:

# List all your games
$ uv run gamecheck list | head -n 11
493 owned games:
  - 1000xRESIST [steam]
  - 9 Kings [steam]
  - A Knight's Quest [amazon]
  - Active Soccer 3 [steam]
  - Against the Storm [steam]
  - Age of Empires: Definitive Edition [steam]
  - Alan Wake Remastered [epic]
  - Albion Online [steam]
  - All Will Fall Playtest [steam]
  - Alone in the Dark 1 [gog]

# Fuzzy matching
$  uv run gamecheck storme
Found 2 matches for "storme":
  - Against the Storm [steam] (82%)
  - Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm [steam] (82%)

# Which game do I have more than once?
$ uv run gamecheck duplicates
Found 12 games owned on multiple stores:
  - Europa Universalis IV [epic, steam]
  - King's Bounty: The Legend [gog, steam]

Let me know if you have specific feature requests!

Sander Tuesday at 6:35 am

When your customer starts finding almost as much bugs as you found yourself, you're not leading into the right place. — Ex-Intel principal engineer, François Piednoël

Although this quote is about Apple and Skylake, it is relevant to software engineering as well.
Sander Monday at 6:58 pm

Do I already own this game, and where? gamecheck searches your owned-game libraries across Steam, GOG, Epic and Amazon and prints any matches with the store they're on.

Working on a proof of concept.
Sander June 10 at 1:36 pm

Browser tabs are just mini tasks to me, I was closing them mimicking as if I got something done. I really liked tab groups but now I think that's just doubling down on this fake value.

So now I've started hiding my tabbar and have an extension deleting them after 3 hours of inactivity, and just open new one, considering them ephemeral because they are, and it's working ok. This makes me use 1 window per project as well instead of tab groups. I bound tab-search to a keyboard shortcut so I can quickly search them, but tabs are surfacing in the address bar for me so I find I'm maybe using it a couple of times a day.

A tab is valuable if I have something actually unfinished in them, like half a draft of something, or got interrupted in a checkout. #technology
Sander June 8 at 11:19 am

Two new system-update versions: 1.3.1 is the latest version, support for more tools and improvements in cleaning up space. #system-update #projects #linux
Sander June 8 at 6:43 am

In reply to pfandrade.me

Reading Paulo Andrade, last month, “ Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-assed App in 2026”

A serious cross-platform framework that unified the two should have happened long before SwiftUI. Instead, Apple left AppKit to fossilize and then tried to leapfrog the problem.

I have no doubt that someone on this planet is working on their unifying framework layer, as it doesn’t seem waiting another eight years on Apple improving matters is helping.