I just realized I had not made my stance on the current “AI” nonsense public, so this is a small post to remedy that oversight!

I am fundamentally opposed to LLMs for ethical, environmental, and sociological reasons. I am not going to waste time going over why LLMs are problematic. I will never use an LLM, and I will never merge any code or documentation that has been tainted by one.

I will never add an AI assistant to FocusWriter: your words are your own, and are safe. I obviously can’t protect what happens to them outside of my work, but I can promise that I will never add that garbage to FocusWriter.

I was busier than I expected to be in January, so the annual maintenance releases I make for my programs slipped into February. And along with the bugfixes, I actually made two minor feature releases! They are not huge releases, but I did add some features to FocusWriter and Kapow. Enjoy!

I made a new release of Whisker Menu today, but users won’t be able to tell. 😛 That is because this release is just for switching to the Meson build system to match the rest of Xfce. There were a few minor source fixes related to that, but no functionality changes. I will be removing support for CMake in the next feature release, but it will hang around for the rest of the 2.10 releases.

I was recently made aware of a bug in Tetzle that has apparently been there from the beginning: alt-tabbing to a different program would break interaction with the game board. I hadn’t noticed because I almost never use alt-tab to switch between programs. 😉

While fixing that bug, I discovered that several other keyboard interactions with the game board were also glitchy. It even did not automatically snap pieces when moving them by they keyboard! That was added to mouse-only play back in 2008, so these are some longstanding bugs. I guess not many people play Tetzle with the keyboard?

I am much happier with the code now, and I think I have sorted out all of the bugs with the keyboard play. Enjoy!

I guess I wasn’t quite done making releases. 🤷 Tanglet would not let you choose a language other than English for the game board, which is a pretty serious bug! It also listed an empty language as a choice for the board language, which is just silly. I fixed that in Connectagram as well. And I made a further fix for the multiple monitor support for Whisker Menu. Whew. Now I think I am done for a while!