Three new things on my desktop today. A galaxy of my repos, an overview of my workspaces and a warp core for the battery.
Galaxy
Every repo is a star. Its size comes from its lines of code, its colour from its language. Rust has one arm, assembly another, Ruby a third. The oldest repos sit by the core, the newest out at the tips.
A repo changed this week has spikes. A commit makes its star flare. Enter opens the repo in pointer, my file manager.
While I look at it, it sleeps. A key or a commit wakes it.
Try it in the browser, with my 170 public repos: galaxy on the try page. A click on a repo’s address opens it on GitHub.
The overview
Mod4+space shows all ten workspaces at once, with a live picture of every window. The arrows move around, Enter jumps to the selected workspace while a digit jumps straight to one.
frame (my X server) draws it. It does work only when open. You know, my battery OCD.
The warp core
w in drain, my battery app, shows the watts as a warp core beside a chart of the day. The bands run faster as the draw climbs. Blue at low draw, amber by 8 W, red by 11 W. It’s now usually around 3W.
The films
Claude ran a hidden copy of my desktop, typed the keys and filmed. The galaxy has my public repos only.
Summary
- galaxy: my repos as a spiral galaxy
- galaxy in the browser: with my public repos
- frame: the X server, with the overview
- drain: the battery app, with the warp core
- CHasm: the desktop in assembly
- Fe₂O₃: the apps in Rust
Link to this post: https://isene.org/2026/11/Galaxy.html
