And the mentioned link 🔗 - "Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times.
Here's Why They Keep Coming Back"
https://xakpc.dev/windows-widgets/history/

Today I'm using KDE, without any floating widgets. Same, minimalistic style for the last 20 years...

(Okay, there was a time when I had Conky on screen, but not for long!)

...but it is fun to read and see how the widget, in 'major OS', evolves over the year.

But I liked the way it worked in Windows 8 - the tiles era. The way how the PC OS and Windows Phone look the same was really nice. And tbh Lumia was one of snappiest phone (after the ones with Symbian) that I have.

While I'm a Linux user for almost 20 years (i'm using Fedora, btw 😂) I recall some widgets attempts from the Windows.

I remember removing the clock widget from Vista as soon as I boot it up. Soon after I installed Arch on that notebook.

"Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back. " is a very interesting piece that describes multiple attempts to bring widgets to the Windows. (link at the end of the thread! 🧵)

And the link https://openfeature.dev 🔗

Code example for Java from OpenFeature docs

There is SDK available for multiple languages (including Java - example on screenshot from the docs).

Also multiple 'providers' - translation layers to use the same OpenFeature API with the different flag management system providers

A nice text about working on side projects 🙂

> The enterprise will teach you how to write code that survives, but the shed is what ensures you actually still want to write it.

👇

https://dylanbutler.dev/blog/protect-your-shed/

A very interesting read about why Switzerland has fast consumer internet connections while the USA and Germany do not.

"The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't" - https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/

I love working with #Java.

I wanted to upgrade the app runtime from 17 to 21 - all I needed to do was install the new runtime, change the java.version property to 21, rebuild, and deploy.

And that is all - everything is working perfectly 😍

Discord popup "New Audio Device Detected - Discord has detected a new audio input device named Monitor of MacBook Air! Do you want to switch to it?" - popup from Firefox on Thinkpad (Fedora) :-)

Okay, but wut? What is MacBook Air doing on my Thinkpad with Fedora?

Discord, go home, you're drunk 😂

Very interesting read about JVM exceptions and how they are handled by catch and finally blocks.

purplesyringa.moe/blog/jvm-exceptions-are-...

Reading announcements like this makes me want to buy a Mac just to install Fedora on it 😂

fedoramagazine.org/fedora-asahi-remix-43-is...

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Today I finally finished my two-day journey of migrating tests to Testcontainers. This included running those tests on a GitLab CI runner that runs all in Docker.

TBH I am starting to miss plain old Jenkins 😂

PS. I would run Fedora on it 😂

Nice write-up about resurrecting an old MacBook with Framework stuff - results in 'FrameBook' (catchy name!). Looks very nice!

https://fb.edoo.gg/

Screenshot of content of ~/.config/containers/containers.conf: # ~/.config/containers/containers.conf [containers] base_hosts_file = "none"

TIL: Podman, by default, copies the content of host's /etc/hosts to container /etc/hosts.

To prevent this, put the following content in ~/.config/containers/containers.conf:

[containers]
base_hosts_file = "none"

How do I separate agents from my host machine using containers? I wrote a bunch of wrappers to run them and Containerfiles to build them.

Everything is available at https://github.com/elwin013/agent-container

Why did it fail to commit? Because there was no local Git settings available to use.

The reason for that is that I run it inside a container. Call me paranoid, but I would not run an AI agent on my machine without any separation.

Yesterday I was working with an agent refactoring some code.

The agent applied the changes, praised itself for the nice code, and tried to commit. It failed to commit and then reset the changes. 😂

The next step was "Oops, I removed the changes, I will now recreate them". 😂

Screenshot showing result of Spectacle (KDE screenshot tool) that OCRed numbers correctly.

And a new version of Spectacle (screenshot tool, version 6.6.0) on KDE read those number correctly - locally. 😁

I can see that underneath they're using Tesseract to OCR.

Funny TIL - Apple Silicion chips (including those on mac books) have accelerometer built in, but not exposed. But somebody found it and wrote a script to read data from it 😄

https://github.com/olvvier/apple-silicon-accelerometer

Announcing TamboUI

xam.dk/blog/announc...

Java CLIs in 2026:

- scaffold with PicoCLI picocli.info
- style with Tamboui tamboui.dev
- launch with JBang www.jbang.dev
- release with JReleaser jreleaser.org

Not sure what provider to suggest (using mostly openai gpts) but I'm using them with opencode for agentic work. Works pretty well.

OTOH I heard that Gemini is working pretty nice too, but not yet tested.

I just saw an announcement for TamboUI on Reddit - a terminal UI library for #Java.

It looks awesome! 🎉

Link to the page: https://tamboui.dev/

I am looking forward to seeing the video about it 🤩

And the video link with 'unboxing the package from Japan' - https://youtu.be/Zw8cdeGEJ18?t=1011

And I learned about it because I found out that arhn.eu has the "After Hours" YouTube channel, and I watched some of the older videos.

In one of them - about package from Japan - Archon shows that interesting accessory