Hylke Bons 🥜

product designer who codes.
I design and build software.
both how it looks, and how it works.

🍵 green tea lover
📷 lazy photographer

creating for / .
dabbling in , , .

been involved with stuff like , , , , and created .

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2025-12-30

@rhelune this is in a closure where you can’t use “?” to pass errors and this happened pretty fast.

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2025-12-29

@MostlyBlindGamer @bazkie @beemdvp having the code in the open helps too. I try to not push too embarrassing stuff…

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2025-12-29

@laund it’s more like walking the gtk widget tree to get to the thing I need. because that’s still a hard thing to do…

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2025-12-29

@beemdvp enterprise. and you don't get hired anymore.

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2025-12-29

@beemdvp 10 years per curly bracket sounds about right.

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2025-12-29

I'll refactor it later.

Rust code snippet showing 8 levels of indentation and closing curly brackets.
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2025-12-29

@BenHM3 give it a couple of years. but some CEOs already realising you can't squeeze much more out of LLMs and don't live up to the hype.

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2025-12-29

RE: mastodon.social/@jessie/115802

come to the office to talk to the chat bot...

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The Public Domain Reviewpublicdomainrev
2025-12-27

Born in 1827, the French astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. See a collection of his stunning astronomical art here: publicdomainreview.org/collect.

(And prints to buy here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fi)

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2025-12-27

@nedrichards building locally also broke somehow yesterday… will have a look again soon. :)

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2025-12-26

@dantescanline surprised it didn’t exist yet. yes, database management apps but not a simple viewer…

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2025-12-26

I ran out of CI minutes so sadly no automatic Flatpak builds...

you'll get that in the new year and I'll submit it to then.

feedback welcome though if you are brave enough to compile from source. :)

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2025-12-26

because I keep biting off more than I can chew. I wanted to release a small utility first to get familiar again with / / development.

also something that I need myself. a week worth of hacking.

introducing Bobby: a SQLite file viewer.

github.com/hbons/Bobby

GNOME application window showing a database table with 4 columns and many rows. The toolbar has a table switcher widget and the opened file name.
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2025-12-26

hit the GitHub Actions minutes limit. oopsie...

well that forces me to take a rest until the new year.

Hylke Bons 🥜hbons
2025-12-26

that's right. it goes into ~/Downloads

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2025-12-25

Some of us need to hear this around this time of the year, so, a little cheetah PSA:

You are not a burden.

You deserve to exist.

You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.

... Also, short days mess with your mood, so don't internalize that nasty feeling. The problem isn't you, it's the earth's tilt.

Hylke Bons 🥜hbons
2025-12-24

finally got a simple ColumnView on the screen and doing a little dance. 🥳

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2025-12-24

@zeenix I guess we can already pick a time to meet on the big square and grab food.

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2025-12-24

@samloonie awk? the laser will be the least of your pain. :)

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2025-12-24

@hbons Nothing pleases me more than when folks see art in ordinary and/or found objects. This is perfect.

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.07
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst