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Early last year, I disabled web fonts in my browser.

Modern dependency practices often feel like an endless treadmill of updates, churn and bloat driven by huge dependency trees.

I’ve recently tagged v0.2.0 of pimsync.

I’ll present this idea with an example… Context [permalink] todoman optionally depends on py3-repl.

In many ways, I think TikTok is pretty good.

From the logs (wrapped for readability): Jan 9 14:52:37 anchor soju[71321]: 2025/01/09 14:52:37 listener 0.0.0.0:6697: accept error (retrying in 1s): accept tcp 0.0.0.0:6697: accept4: too many open files Sounds like soju needs more file descriptors that t…

My initial implementation for libdav was to always decode percent-encoded received from a server, and return them to consumers un-encoded.

Copying photos out of an iPhone another device is not trivial.

When re-using the name vdirsyncer, versioning for this new project was a bit messy.

Applications typically need to embed their version into binaries, for things like --version to work as expected.

The vdirsyncer rewrite on which I have been working these last months will be named pimsync, not vdirsyncer v2.

snooze is a program to run scheduled tasks, and its design matches exactly what I’d been wanting: snooze parses the schedule, sleeps until the desired time and finally executes the specified command.

The folks from Radically Open Security recently completed their security audit.

I believe that this rewrite of vdirsyncer is stable enough to warrant a stable release.

I wanted a quick setup where I can speak to my laptop, and it will record the audio and then give me a text transcript of what I have said.

Today I started work on emoji-im, an input method to type emoji.

A few years ago I moved to the Netherlands.

Vdirsyncer in its current state has been working for me reliable for quite some time now, and I’m very happy how this has shaped up.

I have two seemingly conflicting goals with vdirsyncer: I want to keep the scope and code simple, reach a stable state, and stop adding new features.

I often want to copy URLs or text or other data from my laptop/desktop on a phone.

These are different ways of typing non-English characters on computers.

In theory I’ve been resting in bed with COVID these last days, but it’s hard for me to sit my entirely idle, so I wrote a invested some of this time in familiarising myself with hare-wayland and hare-ev. wlhc is a small program to enable “hot corners” on…

I have a list with ideas of “useful tools that I want to write someday” that would likely take hundreds of years to complete.

Renaming items [permalink] Last month I mentioned a bug when items are renamed in a collection.

IRC is great for public rooms or public meeting points.

When programs crash in certain specific ways, the kernel can generate a core dump file.

A major caveat in tools like sudo and doas for that matter is that they rely on setuid binaries and privilege escalation in order to run commands as root.

This has been a slow month.

When I initially set up my laptop, I created a 16GB swap partition on it.

Since early 2022, darkman supports exposing the dark mode / light mode preference via the appropriate xdg-desktop-portal API.

Sync status [permalink] As I mentioned before, when synchronising two storages, the sync algorithm keeps around a local “status” with some basic metadata.

s6 is a collection of programs that can be used for service supervision. s6-rc is a service manager built on top of s6.

My lock-and-sleep locks the system and puts in back to sleep after 10 seconds of idle as long as it remains locked.

Current state [permalink] Vdirsyncer keeps a “status” file locally.

Last year I wrote xendmail, a tool based on the proposal mentioned in my thoughts on sendmail in 2023 article.

Given the outage at sourcehut right now1, I need an alternative bouncer to use IRC without leaving a client running 24/7.

When some text is selected, it becomes the primary selection.

I’ve been synchronising my calendars with the still-experimental rewrite of vdirsyncer lately. vdirsyncer --sync --daemon has been running for about three days now.

I have made a few mentions to valarmd, a project of mine which is paused for the moment.

Designing the low level icalendar parser took longer than it should have taken.

I want to measure test coverage for the vparser library, and this is my first time measuring coverage with Rust.

Modern batteries degrade faster if continuously charged to 100%.

In the upcoming months I will travel to visit family and friends.

After having an initial version of the configuration parser, I’ve moved on to working on the actual command line for vdirsyncer itself.

Settling down a configuration format for the upcoming vdirsyncer v2 has taken more than I anticipated.

pylsp wasn’t working today for some reason.

I had family visiting during this past month, so I’ve taken some time off to spend with them.

I wanted to run sway from upstream master branch to tests the yet-unreleased fractional scaling support.

CardDav support [permalink] This month I’ve worked on missing CardDav support in existing libraries.

Slightly over a year ago, I set up a new hardware-backed GPG key on my yubikey device.