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I’ve been refining the API for libdav.

This article is about two desirable traits in system upgrades: atomicity and being able to roll back.

Back in 2022, LSP implementations could find errors and other diagnostics in code and send them into the editor, but editors lacked good interfaces to actually present this.

After the system goes into sleep and wakes up again, ImapGoose would just hang for like 15–20 minutes before finally detecting the disconnection and reconnect.

Live tests [permalink] A belated status update for July, since the final task has been “99% ready” for over fifteen days, and trickled way into August.

98% sounds like a lot.

Pimsync v0.5.11 is out, with the following set of improvements.

One day around 2010, we experimented at work with ARP poisoning and intercepting traffic for other hosts on the network at work.

Back in late 2022 when I built my current desktop computer, I opted for a mini-ITX case rather than the typical huge ATX case.

When trying to type using an input method on GTK4 it simply doesn’t work.

Last weekend I sat down and set into code a project that has been living in my head rent-free for some time: µlock (a.k.a: ulock). ulock is a minimal Wayland screen-locker, designed to work without relying on any setuid binary on Linux.

A great portion of this past month was dedicated to internal improvements and several small bug-fixes.

After the acceptance of my grant request to work further on pimsync, I’ve been focusing on it greatly this past month.

I’ve seen a few posts recently lamenting GitHub’s current downfall1.

A portion of knowledge and advances in modern medicine are the result of experimentation on unwilling test subjects.

I’m pleased to announce that NLNet has accepted my grant proposal for pimsync.

Pimsync [permalink] Pimsync 0.5.7 is out, with mostly minor improvements and bug fixes.

Many applications rely on a runtime directory: a dedicated directory which serves as a rendezvous point for different components and for runtime files.

I used Arch Linux for over a decade.

It’s been a busy couple of months.

In the Netherlands, local online payments are done using iDEAL, a Dutch online payment system which works surprisingly well.

“They” and “them” can be used as singular gender-neutral pronouns in English.

This article is a resurrected draft from 2022, and its core argument remains unchanged.

My workflow since time immemorial has been to use a code editor (Vim/Neovim) to edit code, and then the git command line tool to operate on the repository.

I want local applications (e.g.: SSH, Firefox, etc) to resolve .local domains using mDNS, so that devices can find each other via multicast.1 I run Unbound as a DNS resolve, and I will configure it to delegate the .local to a avahi2dns. avahi2dns uses D-B…

My goal is to programmatically provision a VM.

Responses API in libdav [permalink] libdav exposed functionality via methods where all parameters must be specified.

I code with a “less is more” mindset.

I performed some tests comparing the results from different translation models translating between English and Chinese.

Plenty has happened since my initial announcement of ImapGoose.

ImapGoose is a small program to keep local mailboxes in sync with an IMAP server.

JMAP support in pimsync [permalink] I’ve finalised support for JMAP in pimsync, and tagged a release with it.

How not to write a JSContact <> iCalendar converter [permalink] As part of my work to implement JMAP support for pimsync, I need to convert JSCalendar entries to and from iCalendar (and likewise, JSContact entries to and from vCard).

My mum visited not long ago.

I’ve been using my Pinetime with InfiniTime since 2021.

Every time that I read some blog post about “coding with AI”, or how cool new models write entire libraries by themselves, I feel like I’m lagging behind, like I’m missing out on some big, useful tool, and my skills are about to become obsolete very soon.

fuse for unprivileged users [permalink] Early this year I signed up to finish my university degree, a licentiate in computer science.

Boycotting an organisation isn’t just about not giving them your money.

For some unknown reason, IPv4 routing doesn’t work when using my iPhone as a personal Wi-Fi hotspot.

I submitted a patcheset to allow renaming projects in sourcehut, which was recently merged.

TLDR: man pages support links, but man page readers neither display nor allow allow following them.

After reboot my Steam Deck yesterday evening, the external display to which it is connected showed an “HDR mode” notification in the middle of the screen for a moment.

March has been a busy month, wrapping up a lot of ongoing work on pimsync.

Modern society faces a paradox: the more efficient we become, the fewer workers we need to sustain ourselves.

For the last several years, I’ve been using mutetab, a Firefox extension which mutes new tabs by default.

After a system update last night, I noticed that Firefox and several other applications were using a different font for their UI.

One of the most popular features present in vdirsyncer and still missing in pimsync is support for Google’s CalDAV service.

I have published and tagged an initial release of ab-bday (address book birthday), a small tool which reads a directory full of vCard files, and writes an iCalendar event for each one.

Pimsync “owner of calendar” metadata [permalink] Pimsync synchronises a few metadata attributes for calendars (displayname, colour, description, order).

This morning I read about foot implementing gamma-correct font rendering, and while all those words sound familiar, I still didn’t know exactly what “gamma correcting” meant in this context.