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17 August 2025

A Finder Resume Copy Issue

I hit a weird Finder copy failure the other day. This was on macOS Sequoia. The copy failed halfway, and Finder said I could resume it. I didn’t really want to trust that.

Note

7 July 2024

Mesa EGL Notes

Mesa sits in the middle of most Linux graphics stacks. On a modern desktop it is usually the layer that turns EGL calls into driver operations, talks to DRM/KMS, and connects …

Linux / Mesa / Wayland

17 June 2024

Android Photo Export Pitfall

adb pull can mess up file timestamps when exporting photos from Android if you forget -a. adb pull -a /storage/emulated/0/DCIM ./DCIM That flag is easy to miss. It saves a lot of …

Android / Note

4 June 2023

How KDE Plasma Badge Counts Work

Today I logged into Telegram on KDE Plasma and noticed something hard to ignore: the badge count on the taskbar icon updates really nicely. It’s a small detail, but also very …

KDE

26 May 2023

Emacs Dired Mimeicon mode

This extension displays file and folder icons in dired mode. It uses mimetype as the displayed logo and follows the icon-theme-spec file naming convention, so you can use icon …

Emacs

27 November 2022

A Notification Design Idea

I recently saw the new front-screen design on the iPhone 14 pro series, which Apple calls “Dynamic island”, and that’s where I got the idea.

Cutefish