Sander van Dragt's Notes

• Sander June 17 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 June 16 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.

• Sander June 16 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 June 16 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 June 15 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.

• 0.10.0

  Sander June 7 at 12:00 am

  Originally written on lamb-releases:

  This release brings your blog into the IndieWeb conversation — webmentions, reply posts, and WebSub — and makes Lamb much easier to install and upgrade. Added

  Webmentions: your blog now sends webmentions to sites you link to when you publish (including reply-to targets), and can receive webmentions from other sites. Received mention authors are shown on the post for the author when logged in. Reply posts: link to a post you're replying to and Lamb shows the reply context above your post.

• Sander June 5 at 3:05 pm

  Lamb 0.10.0-rc2 is out: with webmentions, reply posts, WebSub, syntax highlighting, draft preview links, image paste, WebP conversion, a new default theme, one-command upgrades, Docker images, and faster page caching. It's a release candidate, so feedback is very welcome. #lamb #projects