llimllib's notes

Phosphor

2026-10-18T23:24:21.882Z

https://www.joshuastevens.net/blog/introducing-phosphor/
https://www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/

Color ramps should be perceptually linear.

Color ramps should be accessible

Maps and data visualizations come from many tools.

stop mac os from locking the screen when vnc disconnects

2026-10-18T02:09:46.866Z

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.RemoteManagement RestoreMachineState -bool NO

source

Petal

2026-10-16T12:12:13.313Z

https://petal.live/
https://github.com/kiruna-labs/petal

Open source version of CoScreen or the dearly-departed ScreenHero

Hyperfine 2.0

2026-10-08T17:58:39.455Z

Hyperfine 2.0 is out! It includes RAM benchmarking, which is a thing I've wanted badly.

via Adam Chalmers

Geometry Daily

2026-10-08T17:13:26.739Z

https://geometrydaily.tumblr.com/

Lovely tumblr of daily geometrical art posts.

I found it via Tom MacWright's reconstruction of one of the pieces on Observable

Brother HL-2220 on macOS Golden Gate

2026-09-26T19:40:28.802Z

Brother's printer driver for the HL-2220 on macOS 27 (Golden Gate) is x86_64 only, I discovered when I tried to print after I upgraded.

To fix it, the agent built me a driver from brlaser, which restores the printer.

The agent says:

The HL-2220 is a host-based "GDI" printer — no PostScript, no PCL, no AirPrint/IPP.

To compile the driver, it did:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pdewacht/brlaser.git
cd brlaser
cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=arm64 \
      -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5
cmake --build build -j8
cd build && ctest            # 4/4 passed
ppdc -d ppd brlaser.drv      # generates ppd/br2220.ppd

Build deps came from Homebrew (cmake) plus the CLT SDK for cups/raster.h.

Two gotchas

-DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 is required — current CMake rejects the
project's old cmake_minimum_required outright.
The generated PPD names the filter bare (rastertobrlaser), so CUPS looks in
ServerBin = /usr/libexec/cups/filter, which is read-only under SIP.
Rewrite it to an absolute path in /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/. This is
exactly what Brother's own PPD does.

To install it:

install -d -o root -g wheel -m 755 /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter
install -o root -g wheel -m 755 rastertobrlaser /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/
install -o root -g wheel -m 644 brlaser-hl2220.ppd \
  /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/
lpadmin -p HL2220_brlaser \
  -v 'usb://Brother/HL-2220%20series?serial=A1N115108' \
  -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/brlaser-hl2220.ppd \
  -D 'Brother HL-2220 (brlaser)' -L adama -o printer-is-shared=false -E

In the future, to diagnose an error, try lpstat -l -p <queue>, which is what the agent used to diagnose the badarch error

I probably could have installed rosetta 2 to get it working, but this seems sufficient for now and I can get rid of Brother's driver

intro video

2026-09-26T14:18:52.96Z

At work, I used this prompt (which I found via their site) as a basis to build a nifty intro video for the API work I'd been doing.

The clever bit (imo) is telling the agent to build an HTML page and construct a video out of it.

Tinycast

2026-09-22T18:25:47.337Z

Open-source clone of Raycast

https://tinycast.dev/
https://github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast

Giving it a try, because why not

Noodle Gallery

2026-09-22T13:47:14.98Z

https://github.com/open-noodle/gallery

A friendly fork of Immich, here's their comparison doc

https://opennoodle.de/noodle-gallery-vs-immich/

Immich

2026-09-22T13:47:08.443Z

https://immich.app/
https://github.com/immich-app/immich

Quality open-source photo gallery

converting from udisc to pdga

2026-09-21T19:03:46.128Z

approximately 423.41 * math.log(udisc_score) - 1330.5

source

simple calculator for it here

Tiny Desk concerts

2024-01-02T02:43:11Z

I love a lot of these. It's pretty wild that I took a long time going through the list of videos, and I'm sure that I missed some.

In alphabetical order, with a 🎧 icon beside the show if I've loved it enough to go back to it intentionally multiple times:

Abdullah Ibrahim 🎧
Adrienne Lenker
Allison Russell
Anaïs Mitchell
Anderson .Paak
Angel Olsen
Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal 🎧
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn
Beth Gibbons
Better Oblivion Community Center
Big Thief (aka Adrienne Lenker, different episode though)
Billie Eilish
Black Thought
Bombino
Booker T. Jones
Boygenius
Bright Eyes
Calexico & Iron & Wine
Car Seat Headrest
Chick Corea & Gary Burton
Chris Thile & Michael Daves
Clipse
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
Deep Sea Diver
Denzel Curry 🎧
Doechii 🎧
Drive-by truckers
Dua Lipa
Fleet Foxes 🎧
Fred Again 🎧
Geese
Gillian Welch 2 🎧
Goat Rodeo
Gogol Bordello
Gwenifer Raymond
Hania Rani
Hiromi
Hop Along
IDLES
I'm with Her
Jason Isbell
Jeff the Brotherhood 🎧
JID 🎧
John Prine 🎧
- John Prine tribute (RIP)
Kamasi Washington
Kevin Morby
Khruangbin
Kishi Bashi
Kronos Quartet
Kurt Vile
Lankum
Lake Street Dive
Leon Bridges
Lianne la Havas
Little simz 🎧
Lucy Dacus 2
Ludovico Einaudi 🎧
Maggie Rogers
Margo Price
Mick Jenkins
MIKE
Milton Nascimento and Natalia Lafourcade
Natalia Lafourcade
Natalie Merchant
Nickel Creek
Norah Jones
Okkervil River
Olivia Rodrigo
Phoebe Bridgers
Pinegrove 🎧
Punch Brothers 🎧
Ratboys
Reggie Watts
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Rodrigo y Gabriela 2
Run the Jewels
Saba 🎧
Sampha 🎧
Sarah Jarosz
Saul Williams
Seratones
Seu Jorge
Sierra Ferrell
Snail Mail
St. Paul and the Broken Bones 🎧
Sturgill Simpson 🎧
Tame Impala
The Beths
The Smile
Thundercat
Tinariwen
Trampled by Turtles
Tune-Yards
TV on the Radio
Ty Segall
Valerie June
Vince Staples 2
Wet Leg
Wilco 2
Willow

youtube concerts

2023-10-20T13:54:09Z

Lately, I've been browsing youtube and looking for good live concerts to watch. Some favorites:

Git at any scale

2026-08-31T14:27:20.654Z

https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale

A nice post about building a system for hosting git repositories.

As somebody who was part of a team that implemented it in a way mentioned in the article, this is a great improvement and I wish the article had existed before we did so.

notes

2026-08-30T10:58:06.074Z

f to go fullscreen from the light table, and mark ratings for images
in settings -> shortcuts, you can modify all keyboard shortcuts
- update left and right in darkroom to go previous and next image