Sander van Dragt's Notes

• Sander 5 hours ago

  Love these QOL oneshot prompts:

  a small service now watches for the screen lock. When you lock, it pauses every media player that is playing. When you unlock, it resumes only the players it paused, so anything you had already paused stays paused.

• Sander 5 hours ago

  Working on: Folio

• Sander October 8 at 6:45 pm

  Working a little bit recently on restoring Pantheon desktop on top of OpenSUSE Leap instead of Ubuntu 24.04. Out of date version for both, but it was the most stable fix. Ultimately I hope to get the desktop environment of elementaryOS running on top of the rolling Tumbleweed, and have a rolling system that works and looks the part.

  Some photos:

  At the start, the pantheon pattern couldn't be installed on Leap 16, and after a manual install the login screen crashed, so you could never reach a desktop.

  #elementaryOS #linux

• viv 0.15 to 0.21

  Sander October 7 at 9:59 am

  It's been a while since I last wrote about Vivace, my Composer alternative (a PHP package manager). There have been seven releases since, so let's get you up to speed.

  The goalposts of the project have shifted a little. Viv started as a viability test to see if rewriting Composer in Rust would bring benefits. When that turned out to be the case, I wanted it to become a faster Composer with a few extra features. Viv 0.14 is the ultimate version of that, and it's very fast.

  I'm now more interested in what else is possible: if we are not beholden to Composer's lock file and vendor setup, and just want to build a correct, working PHP application from the dependencies provided, what else can we do?

  Using viv, you are no longer affected by these common developer gotchas:

  Automatic conflict resolution (0.20)

  If you've worked with Composer for any length of time with two or more coders, you've encountered lock merge conflicts.

  I've analysed 355 merge conflicts from real projects I've been involved in, and all but 6 now merge automatically without losing compatibility with Composer. The remaining 6 mostly involve packages or commits that no longer exist.

  viv lock merge introduces a git merge driver, and there's a viv.lock lock file, versioned alongside Composer's, that adds the information needed to make this possible. Even without it, the majority of merges resolve cleanly.

  PHP versioned projects (0.19)

  viv php install downloads a self-contained PHP build and pins it to the project. This means you can run the installed tooling (viv run phpcs) and isolated external tools (viv x phpunit/phpunit:^11) on the project's PHP version with zero setup.

  A global PHP install is no longer needed.

  Dependency isolation (0.21)

  Many WordPress plugins ship their own copy of libraries like Guzzle or the AWS SDK. When the site installs a different version of the same library, Composer installs both without complaint, and whichever loads first wins; the other plugin breaks at runtime. Viv warns you when this happens, and also provides a solution: viv isolate <package>.

  This prefixes the namespaces of the plugin's bundled libraries and updates the autoloader, so both versions can be used at the same time, with no manual changes needed.

  The rest

  There's a bunch of other things that have changed; have a look at the changelog.

  You can try viv and stop using it without affecting your project: it's either Composer-compatible or it stops.

  • View viv 0.21.0

  Constructive feedback requested, positive or critical.

  #projects #vivace

• Sander September 30 at 9:37 pm

  Let’s see if we can help out eBay and get some items sold https://listings.vandragt.com/

• Sander September 30 at 9:37 am

  Does Microsoft ever change? Learned today to install a UA switcher addon and switch to Edge for Windows and you get the new version of Teams with more background change/blur options on Edge for Linux

• Sander September 27 at 8:36 pm

  I can’t believe anyone just uses their phone as their main computing device. It’s so rubbish. Web page for insurance forms just reloads in the middle of it due to multitasking.

• Sander September 23 at 11:18 pm

  mdex is a Markdown editor and exporter to Slack/Jira/Micropub powered blog. Write exporter plugins in JavaScript #projects #mdex

• Sander September 23 at 7:13 pm

  I keep trying to get prose from ai agents that matches my style. But I think perhaps it’s more productive to summarise key points then write it myself, despite it being a lot slower, and me not being confident.

• Sander September 21 at 10:04 am

  Want me to apply the fix and commit it?
  ❯ why wouldn't i?
  ● No reason — I was asking out of habit rather than because there was a real decision left. Applying it.

  I'm just checking you're just checking.