2025–W08 #
I updated my desktop and bunch of GNOME stuff is broken. Really I was just using GNOME for working HiDPI. After some experimentation, here's mostly working HiDPI+Dark mode with cwm.
For .xsession:
#!/bin/bash
xrandr --dpi 192x192
export GDK_SCALE=1
xsetroot -solid red
xsettingsd &
exec cwm
And for .xsettingsd:
Net/ThemeName "Adwaita-dark"
Xft/DPI 196608
Xft/Antialias 1
Xft/Hinting 1
Happily I configured GNOME to use Super+F-keys to switch desktops and that's how I have cwm set up too, so there's no unlearning of muscle memory required.
Have been doing some Rails recently. It's interesting. Having done some web dev with Go, where nothing is really done for you, I appreciate how much in Rails is done for you, but I don't appreciate having to reverse-engineer some of those things when you want to change them. So far: for a CRUD-ish app, on balance Rails is probably good. I do think that I am about to enter into a fight with its CSS bundling system to get both DaisyUI and TailwindCSS working fully correctly.
(Tailwind is fine, tbh).
I've had my test Clos-network running in my basement for like two weeks. I should write my long overdue blog post so that I can power it all off.