Software Field Notes

Restart with Java and Maven

Alexandre Pascoal — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

For professional reasons and to revive my memory I am diving into Java.

GIMP MCP Experiment

Alexandre Pascoal — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Liking them or not, Large Language Models (LLMs), or as we normally call them the Artificial Intelligence (AI), are here to stay. In the IT they are being pushed to be used, and in some cases we can have the opinion that it is being taken too far, but the reality is that there is a lot of repetitive work that can be automated and accelerated with it.

Quickshell Sway Modes Plugin

Alexandre Pascoal — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In the same spirit as my earlier post, Quickshell System Updates Plugin, I created another plugin to integrate the Dank Material Shell and SwayWM.

Quickshell System Updates Plugin

Alexandre Pascoal — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using GNU/Linux (to not offend anyone) operating systems for more than 10 years, and have been working to move from Gnome to a window manager. I’ve been experimenting with Hyprland and SwayWM, and decided to focus on Sway. Since I don’t have the mental bandwidth to build the “Desktop Environment” from the ground up, I selected Dank Material Shell to wrap the functionalities that I’m accustomed to in a Desktop Environment (DE).