Day to Day Log

KDE desktop styling and usability problems - Phase Two is an update on the previous state of play, and some areas do seem to be going backwards, but on the whole the bitweaver code base is looking quite good and everything is in sync onto the github master. Even the backup server is now running the latest code, and I think it's time to retire all the backup copies that need PHP7.3/4 to actually run. _bw4 has been replaced by _bw5 and very few complaints about things that php8.4 does n…

Accessing Claude Haiku 4.5 is irritating, but it does at least throw up some useful alternative paths. The code it creates can be very hit and miss, and as has been the case recently, pointless since it was never addressing the actual best path. As I've said before, what is missing is a why? Asking why I'm trying to do something might get us to the right starting point, but recent discussions - over several days of limited access - have been more productive and I now have a better pla…

Just had a couple of days chasing my tail, but the result is I've actually got much better control over the servers. The blog entry on the 11th was going on about the problems of yast being retired and a thread came up on openSUSE forums about a possible replacement. It looking interesting so I had a go at following it's instruction, only to find that they had…

Why do 'developers' have to keep sticking their oar in on things that are working perfectly well? Currently on the Linux desktop I am struggling with things like the main menu being missing from the LibreOffice window, appearing instead only on the start bar if I am using the middle screen. The same on some other apps such as Dolphin, while other application are unaffected. The problem with those applications is the failure of the cursor scaling, so while hovering over the Cura workin…

Two weeks seem to have just flown past as attested to by the fact my medical log is over 10 days behind. In addition to getting stuck into creating a working Firebird driver for laravel's illuminate database abstraction, I was testing it by getting webtrees running on Firebird. I have a working set of code and on the whole it's also properly documented in github, so we now have illuminate-firebird, since illuminate is not actu…