The Optimistic Toggle That Changed State Three Times
A Glimpse toggle tried to feel immediate, then moved through three visible states when its local guess collided with authoritative service updates.
Alex Oleshkevich
Measuring a Rust Desktop Shell Before Optimizing It
A slow build, a flickering panel, and an unavailable service looked related until process and state measurements separated them.
Hot-reloading Modular TOML Without Losing File Watches
Watching config.toml was easy. Watching layered config, drop-ins, symlinks, atomic saves, and replaced directories required treating the watch set as state.
Why COSMIC-style Applets Need a Rendering Boundary
Process discovery was the easy part of studying COSMIC applets for Glimpse. The unresolved problem was who owns the Wayland surface and its pixels.
Borrow the Contract, Not the Daemon
A review of Stasis changed Glimpse's idle design, but the useful part was its state machine and control contract, not another daemon to install.
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