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20 April 2026

Redesigning My Blog, GOV.UK Style

I recently redesigned this blog. I took the visual direction from GOV.UK Design System, checked alphagov/govuk-frontend for implementation details, and asked codex-cli with gpt-5.4 …

Design / AI / Frontend

17 August 2025

A Finder Resume Copy Issue

I ran into 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 …

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, negotiates with DRM/KMS, and …

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, but it saves a lot …

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 beautifully. It is only a small detail, but a rather …

KDE

26 May 2023

Emacs Dired Mimeicon mode

This extension allows to display file and folder icons in dired mode and uses mimetype as the displayed logo and adheres to the icon-theme-spec file naming convention, which will …

Emacs