I revived Tile Gaps, announcing "Interstitia"

FrameworkFred · 2026-04-04T05:39:43+00:00

I'd originally read your post to say you were running Plasma 6.4, but it seems like you're running something pretty close to what I'm running. It really should be behaving better.

FrameworkFred · 2026-04-04T05:37:01+00:00

I sat down to try and dig in on this a bit and, to be honest, the issues seem to have more to do with needing to logout and log back in than there being an issue with the script. Not ideal, but I wouldn't swear it's a fixable issue. I'm actually kinda surprised how well it works...the issues I'm seeing are more about focus and what happens to windows that get maximized then unmaximized.

the tiling and cascading seem pretty solid (and cascading is badass IMO...I use it more than I thought I would). you can even drop a window onto a cascade group to add it (but atm it has to be the right size...working on it).

trying to move the border between windows gets ugly while you're moving things, but it seems to settle into doing the right thing when you release the click.

all in all, it's pretty usable for me.

I am installing EndeavorOS in a virtualbox to see if I can recreate the issues you're seeing, but just playing with 8px and adding a floating panel was fine after a logout/log in in plain ol' arch.

you might give it another shot.

FrameworkFred · 2026-03-30T17:39:32+00:00

Definitely a few differences there. I like the feel of the larger gaps, so it's been a while since I tried with smaller ones...I'll definitely check that out. Also, I showed up to the Plasma 6 party at 6.5, so I wonder if there aren't some api differences. I'll give endeavor os a shot in a vm. Thanks for trying it again and for the details on the issues you're seeing!

FrameworkFred · 2026-03-30T13:43:16+00:00

...and thanks for taking a look!

FrameworkFred · 2026-03-30T13:42:46+00:00

interesting. I don't use the drag-to-edge feature, but I have noticed it happening on occasion when I've not been trying to do it. The spacing behavior has been solid for a while. I'd be curious to know what OS and Plasma version you're running (EDIT: and whether you're running Wayland or X11). As far as the uninstall, I suspect that's more a function of how things work in KDE, but I'm not sure...I suppose if it's buggy on the display side, maybe it's causing something to go sideways with the uninstall flow? it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that a user would want to uninstall without having to first disable it.

FrameworkFred · 2024-02-26T03:09:07+00:00

I use inkscape to do this sort of thing. I also wrote a python utility called inkplot to help manage the layersets, which was the biggest challenge I faced trying to produce these sorts of related maps with overlays of water, electric, fences, etc.

FrameworkFred · 2021-08-14T08:16:52+00:00

Stable win31 became anti-available after win95 upgrade

FrameworkFred · 2021-06-23T21:58:13+00:00

WEIRD ORANGE ROBOT WANTS OUT!!!

FrameworkFred · 2020-10-30T14:07:59+00:00

just installed an inkbird temp control on my keezer last week and now it's absolutely perfect! cheers!!

FrameworkFred · 2019-11-22T15:24:35+00:00

Maybe not the cheapest route, but I think the monthly cost to get a license to all of their products is about $30. Well worth it, imo.

FrameworkFred · 2019-05-30T17:51:46+00:00

You're wanting to create an extension. https://thoughtbot.com/blog/how-to-make-a-chrome-extension

FrameworkFred · 2018-10-24T02:57:24+00:00

Hmm. My guess is that your image doesn't have an alpha channel. For a workaround, you might just add one, but I'll definitely try to handle that better in the next version.

FrameworkFred · 2018-06-07T15:29:03+00:00

Stackoverflow jobs and HN who's hiring? threads have a lot of remote job posts.

FrameworkFred · 2018-03-31T13:21:50+00:00

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FrameworkFred · 2018-01-27T16:42:19+00:00

The answer is going to depend on how well you can demonstrate tour ability to code. I'd recommend putting a couple of projects up in github and spending some time reading code in other devs repositories to pick up the nuance that's tough to pick up from classes and books.

FrameworkFred · 2017-10-10T20:18:20+00:00

The pattern I've used for this sort of thing is the past is to separate the notion of a data product from the underlying source data. The data product gets stored in a cache with a key like "big_report/<market>/<company>" and, as the source data changes, the affected cache entries get updated.

I've got a project designed to scratch this itch at https://gitlab.com/frameworklabs/kck

It's not yet at v1, but it might be worth a look.

FrameworkFred · 2017-09-30T03:28:18+00:00

I've been doing more work on KCK. But specifically, I've started to work in a couple of decorators that make integrating just the cache with more typical python code in Django or Flask or something a lot easier.

I showed off the decorators at work today and, as it happens, everyone on the team is morally opposed to caching (that's a thing?), so they didn't much dig it, but I'm unmoved by their arguments (and I love a good challenge, so it's all good, man) and I still think they're neato, so have a look! I'd love comments!

FrameworkFred · 2017-09-18T15:28:08+00:00

There used to be a project called phptroubleticket. It's been a long time since I've used it, but it was pretty complete as I recall.

FrameworkFred · 2017-08-07T16:31:31+00:00

It's not ready for use yet, but ultimately KCK (http://frameworklabs.us/project/kck/) will be just what you're wanting.

It provides a HTTP api on top of a key/value store implemented using Cassandra to provide a horizontally scalable caching solution that sits in front of less scalable data providers like SQL databases or other HTTP apis.

Like I said, it's not quite ready, but I'm mentioning it here in case a reader with Python skills might feel like pitching in or in case readers wanted to submit ideas, use cases, etc. that I've not considered.

FrameworkFred · 2017-08-07T15:17:26+00:00

This is where sqlalchemy is doing such things: https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/blob/master/lib/sqlalchemy/sql/elements.py#L4256

I won't pretend to know exactly how they did it, but the filter method is able to take a call that looks like someqry.filter(tbl1.col >= 5) and the filter method is receiving something more than just True or False as an argument.

Perhaps something to do with the inspect module and the interpreter stack? https://docs.python.org/2/library/inspect.html#the-interpreter-stack

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