Personal site of Jean-Luc Makiola — projects, writing, and notes.https://jeanlucmakiola.de/https://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/the-translator-who-emailed-me/https://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/the-translator-who-emailed-me/I stood up a whole self-hosted Weblate instance to invite translators. A missing email setting silently blocked the first one who showed up — until he emailed me directly. By the next morning: Italian at 40%.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/recurring-event-edit/https://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/recurring-event-edit/Editing a single instance of a recurring event is one of the sharpest edges in the calendar model. A bug in Calendula, and why recurrence makes "just save it" surprisingly hard.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/when-it-stopped-being-mine/https://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/when-it-stopped-being-mine/Calendula was a thing I built for myself. Then strangers started relying on it, filing issues, debating design in the comments — and it turned into something with a small community around it.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/widgets-remoteviews/https://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/widgets-remoteviews/Jetpack Glance lets you write home-screen widgets in Compose. But it compiles down to RemoteViews — so the old constraints still bite through the nice API. Three Calendula bugs that proved it.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/hello-world/https://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/hello-world/First post — what this site is and how it's built.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/no-internet-permission/https://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/no-internet-permission/Calendula can't talk to the network — and that's the whole design. A look at building on Android's CalendarContract instead of reinventing a sync stack.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/open-standards/https://jeanlucmakiola.de/blog/open-standards/CalDAV, iCalendar, OpenTasks, DecSync — why I treat open standards as a hard boundary for what the Floret apps are allowed to do.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT