At the beginning of the month I uploaded a new version of the sway package to Debian. This contains two backported patches, one to fix reported WM capabilities and one to revert the default behavior for drag_lock to disabled.

I also uploaded new releases of cage (a kiosk for Wayland), labwc, the window-stacking Wayland compositor that is inspired by Openbox, and wf-recorder, a tool for creating screen recordings of wlroots-based Wayland compositors.

If I don’t forget I try to update the watch file of the packages I touch to the new version 5 format.

Simon Ser announced vali, a C library for Varlink. The blog post also mentions that this will be a dependency of “the next version of the kanshi Wayland output management daemon” and the PR to do so is now already merged. So I created ITP: vali – A Varlink C implementation and code generator, packaged the library and it is now waiting in NEW. In addition to libscfg this is now the second dependency of kanshi that is in NEW.

On the Rust side of things I fixed a bug in carl. The fix introduces new date properties which can be use to highlight a calendar date. I also updated all the dependencies and plan to create a new release soon.

Later I dug up a Rust project that I started a couple of years ago, where I try to use wasm-bindgen to implement interactive web components. There is a lot I have to refactor in this code base, but I will work on that and try to publish something in the next few months.

Miscellaneous

Two weeks ago I wrote A plea for <dialog>, which made the case for using standardized HTML elements instead of resorting to JavaScript libraries.

I finally managed to update my shell Server to Debian 13.

I created an issue for the nextcloud-news android client because I moved to a new phone and my starred articles did not show up in the news app, which is a bit annoying.

I got my ticket for 39C3.

In my dayjob I continued to work on the refactoring of the import logic of our apis-core-rdf app. I released version 0.56 which also introduced the “#snackbar” as the container for the toast message, as described in the <dialog> block post. At the end of the month I released version 0.57 of apis-core-rdf, which got rid of the remaining leftovers of the old import logic.

A couple of interesting articles I stumbled upon (or finally had the time to read):

• Learn Python’s t‑strings
• Just use a button
• AI is impressive because we’ve failed at semantic web and personal computing
• Let’s write a macro in Rust - Part 1
• Explicit lazy imports for Python
• What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (2025 Edition)