All Encounters
13 posts
- Cantrip
DST Field Guide: Reading the Symbols
A visual legend for the Domain and Scale Taxonomy — every icon, where they come from, and an honest list of the ones due for replacement.
- Apprentice
DST and the Class of '64
A two-axis taxonomy for classifying what people do and how far it reaches — and what happened when we ran it against 62 people born in Britain at the peak of the baby boom.
- Journeyman
Flameshot to XBackBone on Linux: The Keyboard Shortcut Graveyard
Getting a one-key screenshot-and-upload workflow on Bazzite KDE with Flameshot and XBackBone. The script is ten lines. The keyboard shortcut took two hours and a tour through four KDE subsystems.
- Journeyman
A Toolkit for Assessing Cloudron Packaging Difficulty
Before packaging an app for Cloudron, you should know what you are getting into. This toolkit scores apps across eleven axes of structural and compliance difficulty, so you can prioritise wisely.
- Apprentice
Deploying Astro 6 to Cloudron Surfer
A practical guide to deploying a static Astro site to Cloudron Surfer via WebDAV, including the surfer CLI gotchas that will waste your afternoon.
- Apprentice
Expressive Code with Tokyo Night
Setting up Expressive Code in Astro 6 with the Tokyo Night theme, custom fonts, line highlighting, and file name tabs.
- Journeyman
Monster Manual: AppFlowy Cloud
Cloudron packaging assessment for AppFlowy Cloud. Structural difficulty 11/14, compliance cost 11/13. Tightly coupled GoTrue auth and multi-service architecture make this impractical.
- Journeyman
Monster Manual: ejabberd
Cloudron packaging assessment for ejabberd. Structural difficulty 10/14, compliance cost 9/13. A well-engineered XMPP server that is fundamentally incompatible with Cloudron's architecture.
- Journeyman
Monster Manual: FacilMap
Cloudron packaging assessment for FacilMap. Structural difficulty 1/14, compliance cost 3/13. One of the simplest apps to package. A quick win for the community.
- Journeyman
Monster Manual: Huginn
Cloudron packaging assessment for Huginn. Structural difficulty 6/14, compliance cost 5/13. A viable and worthwhile packaging candidate for personal web automation.
- Journeyman
Monster Manual: Prosody
Cloudron packaging assessment for Prosody XMPP server. Structural difficulty 2/14, compliance cost 7/13. Lightweight and simple, but XMPP protocol requirements drive the compliance cost.
- Journeyman
Monster Manual: Supabase
Cloudron packaging assessment for Supabase. Structural difficulty 14/14, compliance cost 10/13. The theoretical maximum score. This is a platform, not an application.
- Cantrip
Welcome to Wandering Monster
The first post. Why this blog exists, what it covers, and why it is named after a table roll.