I approve of Imari’s attempts to improve Nagi’s wardrobe. She looks good in anything, and fan-artists have gleefully expanded her range. This week, we bounce into a game of Opals For Oppai!

Interesting to see Ruri’s reaction to L’il Red Shoko choosing Imari as her preferred mentor. A small detail, but character-developing.

“How hard could it be?”

I sent my sister a sample screenshot from the work-in-progress gallery-wall app, and she asked if I could make it work for her, as she also has walls in need of galleries. Not being a command-line kind of gal, the ideal solution would be for me to use something like py2app to bundle in all the dependencies so she can drag-and-drop a directory onto a self-contained app.

Turns out that’s quite hard, at least if you’re Windsurf & Claude Sonnet 4.5. So hard, in fact, that in the end I told it to back out to the last commit before we started, and it gleefully did a git hard reset that erased all traces of its 90 minutes of failure. The app packaging went fine, after a few tries, it just couldn’t implement drag-and-drop or manage to quit cleanly. And the best part is that it learned nothing, and will make the exact same mistakes again tomorrow. Confidently, with exclamation points.

Pro tip: when your GUI app logs a line that says “run pkill to exit cleanly”, you have failed. Also, don’t gaslight the user by claiming that typing a directory name on the command line “is a better Mac-native solution than drag-and-drop”.

Breaking out the stone knives and bearskins, the simplest approach seems to be a three-line change to add a native-app wrapper with pywebview. py2app still blows chunks if you enable drag-and-drop, but at least it bundles up all the dependencies. The workaround is to use Automator to create another app that just launches the real one from a shell script with --args "$@", which is conceptually disgusting but functional.

(I had ChatGPT create an icon for the app (which takes a while when you don’t pay them $20/month…); it does not feature Our Mighty Tsuntail)

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