Recently, I've been playing with Clawd / Moltbot / Openclaw bot. Of course, it ended up with asking it to write some code. Since I'm running it in a VM with Ubuntu Linux, I've been playing with developing some apps for it. And at some moment, I realised that I'm sending screenshots of an app, but each time I have to do it manually.

So I decided to automate that part. I tried some console apps for Linux that promised they can do screenshots, but none of them worked for me for some reason.

So I decided to write my own. I picked Rust, and Openclaw did some research for me about how it should be done. It ended up with a console app that uses the FreeDesktop Screenshot portal. It required creating a .desktop file so I could see that Gnome permission request and click Allow. That is required just once, so now I've automated it.

That's a pretty cool thing to be honest, which I already tried with an iOS app using UI tests - the AI agent just runs UI tests, gets screenshots from a report, analyzes them, and understands what is wrong with the app UI.

I pushed the app to GitHub and published a release with binaries, .deb, and .rpm packets for arm64 and amd64. And it got a nice automatic installation script. Since I made it using Openclaw, I called it Claw Screenshot.

Check it out: https://github.com/makoni/claw-screenshot

AppMetric version 1.14.0 has been released.

New

• Settings window with a "Launch at login" toggle.
• Updated app icons for Liquid Glass.

Improvements

• Faster and more stable updates: parallel requests with backoff during rate limits, while respecting the daily quota.
• Popovers now adapt to their content.
• Improved date formatting in charts.

The first update for Actioneer has been released. Here's what's new:

• Workflows refresh in the background so newly-dispatched runs appear automatically.
• Reduced API usage and fewer rate-limit hits with ETag-based caching — lists load faster and your quota lasts longer.
• The app remembers the repository you were viewing between launches.
• Better diagnostics and reliability for smoother everyday use.

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This week I've released a new version of CompareShots. Nothing special, just updated the user interface to support Liquid Glass. Also, sharing the result image will not capture UI elements anymore.

Hard to believe, but this year CompareShots turns 10 years old. Time runs fast.

Actioneer is a native GNOME desktop client for GitHub Actions. It combines a GTK4/libadwaita interface with a Tokio-powered API client so you can browse repositories, inspect workflow runs, watch job logs, and receive notifications without leaving your desktop.

Key features

• Browse your GitHub repositories and view Actions workflows and recent runs quickly.
• Inspect run status (success, failure, queued, in progress) with clear badges and counts.
• View job logs: download and preview run logs for quick troubleshooting.
• Dispatch workflows, cancel running workflows, and re-run failed runs directly from the app.
• Favorites and quick search let you focus on the repositories and workflows that matter most.
• Desktop notifications for run completions and failures so you never miss important results.
• In-memory caching and efficient refresh make the app responsive while respecting GitHub rate limits.
• Secure authentication using OAuth, tokens are stored securely in keyring.

Acntioneer for Linux is an open source project, source code is available on GitHub.

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Actioneer — a lightweight macOS app for developers and DevOps engineers who want fast, reliable access to GitHub Actions from the desktop.

Key features

• Browse your GitHub repositories and view Actions workflows and recent runs quickly.
• Inspect run status (success, failure, queued, in progress) with clear badges and counts.
• View job logs: download and preview run logs for quick troubleshooting.
• Dispatch workflows, cancel running workflows, and re-run failed runs directly from the app.
• Favorites and quick search let you focus on the repositories and workflows that matter most.
• Desktop notifications for run completions and failures so you never miss important results.
• In-memory caching and efficient refresh make the app responsive while respecting GitHub rate limits.
• Secure authentication using OAuth (PKCE); tokens are stored securely in the macOS Keychain.

Privacy & security

We only request minimum GitHub scopes required for the features you use. Authentication uses OAuth PKCE and tokens are stored in the macOS Keychain. We do not send your logs or tokens to third-party servers without your explicit consent. See the app’s Privacy Policy for details.

Getting started

Sign in with your GitHub account (OAuth), grant the requested scopes, and the app will list your repositories and workflows. For CI/CD administrators and individual developers alike, Actioneer makes monitoring and simple management of GitHub Actions fast and convenient.

Follow updates on X: https://x.com/ActioneerCI

A new version of CompareShots has been released. It's a simple app I wrote years ago to compare two images.

The new version 1.6 has been rewritten in SwiftUI. And I've implemented a couple of ideas from app reviews that a user suggested.

What's new:

• Choose your view: Easily switch between aspect fill and aspect fit with a new button.
• Move your images: In aspect fill mode, use two fingers to reposition images for the perfect comparison.
• Faster setup: Select up to two images at once for side-by-side comparison.
• Expanded language support and improved accessibility.
• Various bug fixes and performance enhancements for a faster, more reliable app.
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements.