Articles

Ideas, decisions, and useful fragments from the work of making digital things.

  1. The Tests Passed. The Hover Didn't.Chrome reported mouse movement as pen input in a Linux VM. A CrateX.app hover bug exposed the gap between simulated input and a user's actual events.
  2. Building 1D3P: When Smaller Is Too GoodA puzzle-design problem from Homeward, Little Snake: why a one-cell form needed a trade-off, and how unfolding direction changes the route home.
  3. Omarchy 4 Black Screen in VMware Workstation 26H1A Quickshell crash, a Wayland “invalid arguments” error after wl_surface.attach, and a scoped workaround that keeps VMware 3D acceleration enabled.