Git has this cursed function to fuck up your files by doing unspeakable things to your line endings.

For example, from Githubs Documentation on Line Endings:

On Windows, you simply pass true to the configuration. For example:

$ git config –global core.autocrlf true

Please, never never never never never never never never never never never never do this!

THERE IS NO REASON TO DO IT!

Git is here to keep track of our files, NOT TO CHANGE OUR FILES IN ANY WAY.

So, please, just, never never never never never never never never never never never never do this! Leave my file endings alone!

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Just recently, I read this article on Golem about Mouse Without Borders (in German).

Mouse Without Borders (http://www.aka.ms/mm)

My current project at work revolves around network communication. For several reasons I cannot work with a single computer and simulated networks, but I need two physical machines to do my work. And I hate switching keyboards and mice all the time. But, I thought, “how many people have such a problem. Surely not many.” So, I accepted it. And now, Mouse Without Borders comes totally unexpected to my aid. Awesome! And it works!

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You might notice that the Shields.io badges, for the Nuget Packets I am maintaining, have been gone for some days and are now replaced by a simple table. What happened?

It happened with this decision of a German court that using Google Fonts from their CDN server hosted in the US can pose a privacy violation when used without user consent. Apparently, some predatorial lawyers are already on the hunt. Thus, I changed all my websites to host the fonts I am using in the same servers. While I was sort of angry about the extra effort I had to take, I understand the importance of data privacy, and, in that light, I can understand the decision. So, that is about the Google Fonts. What about anything else?

My goal was to change my website to either host everything myself, or to explicitly request content for any embedded content. And that is why Shields.io is no longer directly used on my website. Call me paranoid if you will, but I think this might be an improvement also on content “stability”. Now, my backend fetches all the data I need, store it at my own host, and delivers it as a local part of my web site. In this case, I even changed fetching the data to a cron job running once a day. I am not that fast with Nuget packing anyway.

ReleaseNuget
everythingsearchclientEverything Search Client
https://github.com/sgrottel/EverythingSearchClient		0.9
2025-06-26		✅0.9.0.148
2025-06-26
glfwGLFW
https://www.glfw.org		3.4
2024-02-23		✅3.4.0
2024-02-24
glmGLM
https://glm.g-truc.net/		1.0.3
2025-12-31		✅1.0.3
2026-01-01
luaLua
https://www.lua.org/		5.5.0
2025-12-15		✅5.5.0
2025-12-27
libyamlLibYAML
https://github.com/yaml/libyaml		0.2.5
2020-06-01		✅0.2.5.12
2020-07-05
State of 2026-03-12 00:00:01

With this, now all content displayed on sgrottel.de is delivered from the servers sgrottel.de is hosted on.

The downside, of course, is that this poses an additional maintenance burden on me. The backend is calling semi-documented Apis, which might change any time, and it does some fragile parsing, e.g., in case of the not so structured Lua project website. The current solution cannot be a final solution, and it will need to be improved in the future. We will see.

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I present a new little tool with very specific purpose: OpenHere

It detects running instances of the Windows File Explorer. From the top-most instance it, fetches the opened path, and any selected files. You can use the command line application to retrieve this information. Or you can use the GUI application, displaying a tool window to select and open one of up to twelve configured tools.

My keyboard has several freely assignable macro keys, which I did not use for years. Simply, because I had no idea what to do with them. Then, Windows 11 came along. One of the maybe most criticized features is the new context menu in the file explorer, hiding away most functions you might or might not want to call on files and folders. That’s when I thought, it would be nice to use the macro keys to trigger something on the selected file, like opening it in Notepad++ or open the whole folder in Visual Studio Code or in Fork or something like that. And that’s what I wrote OpenHere for.

I learned quite a bit about the low level icon handling and loading of large icons, and I got to get more experience working with WPF.

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Today I release a new version of my Checkouts Overview tool.

Version 1.1 is a feature release, improving the scanning of your hard disks searching for repository checkouts, and adding the ability to perform a git fetch while updating the entry status.

Some minor improvements to the UI also provide a more consistent look and feel.

Grab the release from Github: Release Feature Release v1.1 – Better Disk Scanning and Git Fetch · sgrottel/checkouts-overview (github.com)

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