Sander van Dragt's Notes

• Gala-xy 0.2 released

  Sander 13 hours ago

  Released version 0.2 of Gala-xy, my plugin for the Gala window manager.

  After experimentation to enhance the default elementaryOS workflow and a few days switching to Gnome + PaperWM, I added a feature where you can switch between windows with a single keystroke, twice as fast as alt-tabbing,

  Together with the focus ring around the active window, this creates a very smooth workflow, as elementaryOS itself already provides nice window management (hide, maximize, tiling, workspaces), and a great multimonitor workspace support (workspaces apply to the first monitor only, the windows on the second monitor are visible on all workspaceS).

  • As usual, All info on GitHub

  #gala-xy #projects

• Retelling the firelight Legends of the Sleeping Keeper

  Sander 15 hours ago

  I've been building diagnostic tools for identifying and correcting errors with the syncing and backup process of the JottaCloud backup solution. Claude triggered my inner nerd, when after questionened to review it's size of the CLAUDE.md file where it stores its learning:

  No hard limit is near; that's a comfortable size for a repo whose whole value is hard-won operational lore.

  Operational lore! This reminded me of all the companionship and anecdotes shared when developers and friends of the industry meet up. So I asked it to track the lore of the project and turn it into the stuff of legend, "the same lore as CLAUDE.md, told as it might be told by firelight three hundred years on, when nobody remembers what a daemon was".

  The result is surprisingly entertaining, so after a bit of iteration, you can now unravel the Legends of the Sleeping Keeper within the repo.

  #jotta-tools #projects

• Sander Tuesday at 7:05 am

  In reply to daringfireball.net

  John Gruber writes about the difficult birth of Siri AI:

  Last winter Apple sent an entire team, including engineers, to Brussels to present a proposal for the TSA (maybe that’s another acronym that needs rethinking on the basis of prior art) to ask, basically, “If we build this, would you deem it DMA-compliant?” and the Commission’s response was basically, “Build it first and then we’ll tell you, after we get feedback from your competitors on what they think of it.” And Apple doesn’t want to spend up to two years building a complex system, exclusively for the EU, only to find out then whether it was all for naught.

  That sounds a bit like what all app developers have had to do since 2008, write the app only to find out Apple won’t approve it in the App Store? Now two wrongs don’t make a right, but it’s a little ironic. It’s not as if there are no rules for Apple to follow.

  That said reality is more complicated than a quick take. #technology

• Sander Monday at 1:29 pm

  Built a small tool jotta-canary which alerts your phone when a machine's Jottacloud sync folder stops syncing. Private repo for now, unless there's interest.

• Lamb 0.13.0-rc1

  Sander Sunday at 7:07 pm

  Originally written on lamb-releases:

  A release candidate for 0.13.0. Try it on a test install before you put it on a site you care about, and report anything that looks wrong. The headline is that you can now get your content out of Lamb and back into it: a full site export, and importers that read it back. Login also gets a brute-force throttle, and Micropub gains several fixes.

  As its developer I use early versions on this very website, and imported two Known sites into this blog. #lamb #projects

• Sander Sunday at 11:37 am

  Do you have a subdirectory based personal blog?

• Sander Sunday at 11:35 am

  Do you have a subdirectory or subdomain blog? Would not having the former be a blocker?

• Sander Sunday at 9:04 am

  Claude code makes spelling mistakes?

  126 tests pass. Now the retrospective you asked for — auditing the rest of the app against what we kept fixting:

• Sander Saturday at 11:24 am

  Changed a Thinkpad’s battery by holding one switch, the battery detached and the other was clicked into its place. 🥰

• Sander August 14 at 5:15 pm

  Imported the content from micro.vandragt.com and 2020.vandragt.com into this site with the Known CMS importer feature for #Lamb. Sets up redirects so no breaking links. Good URLs don’t change!