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   Hylke Bons 🥜 (hbons@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 03:43:26 JST Hylke Bons 🥜

   teaser for my little winter project. ❄

   #gnome #design #app #flatpak #rust #icon #foss

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     Hylke Bons 🥜 (hbons@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 03:43:24 JST Hylke Bons 🥜

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     boom. bar charts. 📊

     just using a GtkFrame and styling with CSS.

     the line graph will be trickier, but thinking about generating an SVG and displaying that.

     #linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #libadwaita #design #aurora

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 03:43:24 JST Børge

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     @hbons I'm thinking it would be really neat if you where able to give those charts some sort of color fade, so that they look like auroras… !?

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     Hylke Bons 🥜 (hbons@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 03:43:25 JST Hylke Bons 🥜

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     hitting the ground running because of all the code reuse. thanks Bobby. :)

     #linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #libadwaita #design #aurora

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     Hylke Bons 🥜 (hbons@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 03:43:25 JST Hylke Bons 🥜

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     been a while since I used a Grid (probably GTK2 days). and being able to set relative positions to other items is a lot more intuitive and less clunky than hardcoding edge numbers.

     also <sub> and <sup> texts are working nicely for scientific notations! 📊

     #linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #libadwaita #design #aurora

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     Hylke Bons 🥜 (hbons@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 03:43:25 JST Hylke Bons 🥜

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     adding ✨.

     almost done with the low hanging fruit. now need to add graphs over time.

     best way to do that?

     #linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #libadwaita #design #aurora

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     Hylke Bons 🥜 (hbons@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 03:43:26 JST Hylke Bons 🥜

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     RE: https://mastodon.social/@hbons/115684542795059829

     several people told me (unprompted) that they liked my "micro dev blogging" for Bobby on here.

     so fave if you want to see my failures in real time for the next one. :)

     #gnome #linux #programming

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     Hylke Bons 🥜 (hbons@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 03:43:26 JST Hylke Bons 🥜

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     alright let's get started!

     got a backend that mirrors+archives to SQLite (hence Bobby) space weather data from the NOAA. and you'll be able to self-host a mirror.

     now to write a beautiful aurora dashboard in #gtk #libadwaita UI!

     #linux #opensource #gnome #design

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     Hylke Bons 🥜 (hbons@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 03:43:26 JST Hylke Bons 🥜

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     the NOAA space weather data does not have an API. it's a bunch of undocumented random .json files behind a CDN that sometimes partially cuts cached files.

     so I wanted to have something reliable to work with first.

     it's... interesting for an official government agency... 🤨

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 03:58:16 JST Børge

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     @hbons Awesome! :D

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     Hylke Bons 🥜 (hbons@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Feb-2026 03:58:17 JST Hylke Bons 🥜

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     • Børge

     @forteller yes! that's the plan. thanks for the inspiration. :)