https://knoden.com/tech/pim/ Recent content in PIM on Knoden Hugo en-US Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:40:00 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/finding-out-if-anyone-uses-pim/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:40:00 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/finding-out-if-anyone-uses-pim/ We wanted a simple answer to a simple question — is anyone actually downloading and running PIM? — and found that neither GitLab nor Ollama Cloud can tell us. https://knoden.com/tech/pim/rss-seen-tracking-fix/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:40:00 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/rss-seen-tracking-fix/ RSS’s beat-the-market review flagged a real resurfacing risk in how PIM tracks which articles you’ve already seen. Here’s the actual fix, and the two other flagged gaps that turned out not to be gaps at all. https://knoden.com/tech/pim/forms-unification/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:35:00 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/forms-unification/ Why PIM’s form contract lives in the shared events module instead of a JavaFX widget library, and how a sealed interface makes forgetting to teach the GUI a new field type a compile error instead of a runtime gap. https://knoden.com/tech/pim/xss-shaped-bug-pattern/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:30:00 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/xss-shaped-bug-pattern/ The same XSS-shaped bug showed up three times in one week — once pre-existing, once freshly reintroduced while building a new feature, and once finally caught before it shipped at all. https://knoden.com/tech/pim/mail-im-thread-unification/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:25:00 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/mail-im-thread-unification/ Asked to fully share Mail and IM’s thread-handling code, we found the two were genuinely alike in some places and genuinely different in others — and only unified the parts that were actually the same. https://knoden.com/tech/pim/mail-second-extraction/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:15:00 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/mail-second-extraction/ The August extraction moved Mail’s code out of PIM core. A second pass, a few weeks later, found most of what moved didn’t actually belong there. https://knoden.com/tech/pim/calendar/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:15:50 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/calendar/ Building Calendar’s day/month view settled what the output area is for, chose HTML over native widgets on purpose, and along the way fixed a command that had never actually worked. https://knoden.com/tech/pim/rss/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/rss/ The simplest of the three comm extractions, and the one that finally emptied PIM core’s generated-entity pipeline. https://knoden.com/tech/pim/pimi_policy/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:40:00 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/pimi_policy/ The rule for what stays in PIM core, what moves into a pimi module, and how to leave room for a second variant of the same app. https://knoden.com/tech/pim/mail/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:25:49 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/mail/ Why pulling Mail out of PIM core needed a trick no earlier app extraction did. https://knoden.com/tech/pim/im/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:30:00 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/im/ Extracting IM turned out lighter than expected — no third-party dependency, no generated persistence, and one bug from the previous extraction along for the ride. https://knoden.com/tech/pim/notes/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:00:00 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/notes/ The simplest possible extraction, chosen first on purpose — and the point where the plan changed from finishing one module to moving everything. https://knoden.com/tech/pim/ai_models/ Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:56:11 -0400 https://knoden.com/tech/pim/ai_models/ Why PIM’s default AI model is moving from gemma4 to mistral-nemo.