Sander van Dragt's Notes

• Sander April 22 at 6:48 am

  JQL syntax in JIRA is such that negative filtering, eg Labels != Refinement also filters out all the tickets without any value. #til

• Sander April 22 at 6:39 am

  Linux Mint may have be an established name, but they don't receive enough donations for a full-time engineer:

  The March 2026 Mint blog shows that [Linux Mint] received over $26,000 in donations. In comparison, the Zorin OS 18.1 announcement claims an impressive 3.3 million downloads since version 18 appeared. source

  Donationware is often suggested as a user friendly way to support software, but reality shows it's not viable. I recommend others to sponsor your daily driver OS, which in effect is "paying back" for the community support you have received (but I have to stress, you're not entitled to).

• Sander April 11 at 11:58 am

  Any developers using bash/zsh shell and git can use this code snippet to effectively git fetch when entering a directory:

  function chpwd {
    GIT_ROOT=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)
  
    if [ -n "$GIT_ROOT" ]; then
      FETCH_STAMP_FILE="$HOME/.cache/chpwd_git_fetch_$(echo "$GIT_ROOT" | tr '/' '_')"
      if [ ! -f "$FETCH_STAMP_FILE" ] || [ $(find "$FETCH_STAMP_FILE" -mmin +10) ]; then
        ({ git fetch --all --quiet && touch "$FETCH_STAMP_FILE"; } > /dev/null 2>&1 &)
      fi
    fi
  }
  

  This snippet acts like a lightweight background updater, seamlessly integrating with your shell navigation to keep your local metadata fresh, reduce manual fetches and out of date merges. #til

• Sander March 30 at 4:56 pm

  Do your best work with Claude, but for users in the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), you’re best avoiding the afternoon and early evenings.

• Lamb 0.8.0

  Sander March 29 at 10:17 pm

  Two weeks after Lamb 0.7.0, I released another significant new version of Lamb, my friction free microblogging project. This version includes support for Micropub, allowing you to post text and photos from anywhere, adds a Trash where deleted posts go for 30 days, support for drafts, a new docs site and a lot more (redirects)!

  View Lamb on GitHub

  #projects #lamb

• Sander March 29 at 6:54 pm

  How do you copy an email address out of the to: bar in iOS mail draft? Well, just take a screenshot and OCR the text. #better-with-pc

• Sander March 28 at 11:55 am

  JAI is a new sandbox for AI agents. It has installation instructions for Arch Linux, but I managed to compile it on Ubuntu 24.04 using a little help from LLM, creating these instructions in the process. After setup, you just prefix the cli command with jai. Read about the security model #til

• Sander March 25 at 6:41 pm

  #til in iOS, emails can be forwarded as an attachment, but it’s not very discoverable

• toolhub

  Sander March 25 at 1:07 pm

  With LLMs these days we are living in a golden age at the moment as a side-project developer. This makes it a challenge to catalogue and present these tools and projects in the best light. So I built toolhub:

  Toolhub is a portfolio hub / tools manager that will bootstrap a projects.yaml with a GitHub user’s public github repos, and gists with a readme, then generate a static site with a tool per page and a index, auto updated with a focus on minimising maintenance, so the site updates itself 😄

  Visit the toolhub page of toolhub

  #projects #toolhub

• Sander March 24 at 1:44 pm

  Friends don’t let friends eat Hydrolysed Collagen Peptides.