Short write-ups, usually about something that was broken for an afternoon and turned out to have a one-line cause. https://not6741.lol/notes/ 2026-10-16T12:00:00Z not https://not6741.lol/ © not https://not6741.lol/notes/#swiss-gui 2026-10-16T12:00:00Z 2026-10-16T12:00:00Z

The size was the feature, so the windows had to go in a second binary. On splitting swiss into a library with two front-ends, why Cargo silently ignores profile overrides in a member manifest, and why embedded fonts don't replace a toolkit's own.

https://not6741.lol/notes/#certificate 2026-10-16T12:00:00Z 2026-10-16T12:00:00Z

My DNS was perfect the whole time. The certificate job had simply cached one failed lookup and backed off until it gave up — and there is no button to make it retry.

https://not6741.lol/notes/#swiss 2026-10-09T12:00:00Z 2026-10-09T12:00:00Z

swiss unlocks stubborn files, edits PDFs and generates branding sets. Notes on using the Windows Restart Manager instead of downloading handle.exe, and why pruning PDF objects cut split output from 1 MB per page to 100 KB.

https://not6741.lol/notes/#artwork 2026-10-02T12:00:00Z 2026-10-02T12:00:00Z

Every image here is drawn by a Rust binary I wrote — including the marks, which are a rounded square and a handful of triangles. Also: why the cards are 1280x720 when every guide insists on 1200x630.