Weeknotes #90 (July 25, 2026)
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Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week.
Things I worked on
- As I now have a Linux desktop as I will mention shortly, I decided to look into some KDE Plasma Widget development as I wanted to extract some data from Home Assistant and display it on my desktop. Definitely not what I am used to as it is done via QT's QML language which has a subset of JS integrated, but not as capable as something like Node (For instance, the
fetchapi is not present and you have to fallback to the XMLHttpRequest api).
Things I consumed
- As mentioned above, I got a Framework Desktop this past week. As a follow-up for not getting a Steam Machine, I decided to invest a bit further without going fully in with a fully custom PC.
- With a machine that can run Windows games via Proton, I finally decided to start playing Final Fantasy XIII. The gameplay definitely starts slow but I'm impressed for a game from 2009 how well the cutscenes and overall design has aged.