Laura Kramolis

Free Software designer, developer, and maintainer.

Website: https://kramo.page/
Personal: kramo@mastodon.social

Last Notes

2025-12-10 09:58:44 UTC

Rewriting Cartridges
https://kramo.page/cartridges-rewrite

2025-08-01 12:56:02 UTC

The GitHub reaction button's icon is off-center by one pixel. You're welcome.
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2025-07-11 22:23:46 UTC

This is GNM-3, but its friends just call it Gnomie. It lives in your computer and tends to your apps. It keeps your windows tidy and updates your Flatpaks while you’re not looking. Don’t switch workspaces too fast or you’ll make it dizzy.
#GNOME #whyHaveAMascotWhenWeAlreadyHaveAPerfectlyGoodFoot
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2025-06-07 16:36:38 UTC

Microsoft’s internal effort to replace humans with LLMs is showing.
The quality of GitHub’s web interface started to decline rapidly in the past 2-3 months: they have been failing to remove inhibition correctly, uploading attachments is broken 80% of the time, when it does work it incorrectly shows supported file formats, and now it just told me to press the Windows key on my phone…
Do I know for a fact that these regressions are caused by LLMs? No, but I would be surprised if they weren’t.

2025-06-04 15:28:27 UTC

I added an Atom feed to my blog for anyone that would like to add it to their RSS reader :blahaj:
https://kramo.page/feed.xml

2025-05-23 22:21:16 UTC

Out of curiosity, I had asked GitHub Copilot to create an issue for me in one of my own repos and it didn’t even do the basic task of checking for duplicates. There were at least 5.
I’ve been holding off on moving everything to @npub1fh7…ee83 because of CI and because “everyone has a GitHub account” but directly enabling AI generated spam is the final straw.
I will start migration of what I can on the weekend and I encourage everyone to join me in using a non-corporate forge.

2025-03-31 23:00:02 UTC

I am happy to announce that after a year of hard work, Showtime finally shows the time.
With this essential feature, it can finally be included in GNOME 49.
#GNOME
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2025-03-16 12:12:34 UTC

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This also contributes to the idea of “future-proof specs”. The apps you run won’t become more complex, but we can predict that developers and companies will become more lazy as specs will eventually increase.

2025-03-16 12:08:29 UTC

Increasing minimum hardware requirements, especially when it comes to memory and storage are a chicken and an egg problem. The less optimized apps get, the higher specs you need to run them, not because they actually need them, but because the half an hour developers would invest into optimizing their assets becomes less and less valuable… It’s sad and I wish we could somehow incentivize lower minimum requirements beyond what is done now. Half-a-gig download size apps are ridiculous.

2025-03-16 10:54:15 UTC

Considering moving all of my personal projects to @npub1fh7…ee83 Anything I should keep in mind?

2025-02-19 08:17:45 UTC

One of the best things I’ve learned working in open source is that if you see something wrong, you can almost always do something about it.
#opensource #foss

2025-01-29 12:58:48 UTC

I will be taking an indefinite break from working on some of my projects for mental health reasons. If anyone wants to work on them (particularly Cartridges and Showtime) for the time being, I would appreciate that.
PS: I will continue to fix important bugs and keep them up to date, but don't expect any major features aside from a bigger 48 Showtime release.

2025-01-20 01:59:50 UTC

Microsoft 365 Copilot's (formerly Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)) newest feature
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2025-01-09 19:03:39 UTC

I'll give this a shot:
Is anyone looking for (or knows someone that does) a UX designer and/or Flutter/native developer either remotely or in the Netherlands?
My work is visible on my website, https://kramo.page
#GetFediHired #Flutter #UX

2025-01-05 16:02:15 UTC

I just released a beta for the next version of Sly, my open source image editor on Flathub and Google Play.
Please help test it and report any bugs if possible!
New features include multiple image editing with copying and pasting edits and a full-screen image viewer.
Details on how to set up Flathub beta: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-users/installation/#flathub-beta-repository
(PS: it will probably take bit for the beta to be published, so if you're reading this right after I posted it, check back a couple hours later.)
#Photography #FOSS