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+Dart format is *really f\*ing stupid*
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+Like who thought that having a formatter *so opinionated* that you can't even change the ***indentation style*** is truly baffling.
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+Prettier, a famously opinionated formatter, allows you to change the indentation style, as that is one of the common choices people make.
+I do understand that giving very many options (like Eslint does) can be very overwhelming and may not satisfy the "Dart Style Guide".
+
+But, if you degrade the developer experience so much by forcing a 2 space indent
+(which, according to some polls, more developers dislike it than there are developers who either don't care or like it, combined).

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+title = 'Project Updates February 2026'
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+author = 'Janis Hutz'
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+The last blog post has been a while and, of course, I forgot to publish the September update post (where I did mention that I forgot to publish the one from June,
+so going full circle there...) *ANYWAY*
+
+I have been a bit too busy over the last few months, so there isn't really much of progress to be shown on my personal projects,
+however, I am part of a project now as well that will soon show up on GitHub.
+
+My exams are soon over and I will again have some time to work on my own projects.
+The projects I plan to work on are, in order of precedence:
+
+
+# EyeTAP
+This is the project I am part of that has seen quite some work and will continue to see a fairly extensive amount of work over the next few weeks
+
+
+# Shopping List App
+The name of this app is still TBD, but what it will allow you to do is create, as the placeholder name implies, shopping lists.
+The product data however can be fetched from the API or website of your local retailer and I will be providing a platform on which you can create and edit schemas for these websites.
+
+This allows me to focus on the core app experience, whilst leaving it partially up to you to integrate the retailers.
+I will be providing some retailers myself though.
+
+In terms of features:
+- Integration with many retailers' offerings
+- Create menus to which you can associate products that you then can easily add to your shopping list
+- If the retailer offers it, a section with the discounts
+- Sync between devices that are logged into the same account (paid feature, likely a few bucks a year subscription)
+- Apple Watch App
+- Will be iOS exclusive, at least initially (I cannot guarantee there ever will be an Android app)
+- May replace StorageManager in its current form, but the current feature set of StorageManager will be retained and improved upon and integrated with the new app.
+This would mean that you can use the retailer's data and images for the products you have and have low-stock warnings that (automatically or manually)
+add your products to the shopping list.
+
+As you can see, there are quite a few interesting ideas around.
+
+
+# Conductor Calc
+It seems like I say that I will work on this every blog post... but now, things are actually starting to move.
+I have worked out all the updates to the account system that I need to do, I have chosen the tech stack and I have a proof of concept for the browser version in the works.
+
+So, maybe I will actually be able to achieve the end-of-march launch date for the sofware, but that may be a bit of a stretch.
+
+
+# LaTeX helpers
+I am planning to update my LaTeX helpers to be a true LaTeX package and to also update some commands that are a bit weird.
+
+
+# Website
+And yes, I have not forgotten about my website update, I just did not have the motivation to spend time thinking about design for it.
+The website update will happen eventually, but it is the lowest priority of almost all the projects (minus `archmgr`).
+
+
+# archmgr
+I am still not quite sure this is the name I want to go for, but the idea of this project is to provide a NixOS like declarative config for an Arch Linux system.
+This means that you can declaratively install packages and your configs.
+
+The initial goal is to support only the user's configs, but a future goal will be to also do a full OS install using it, with all the system configs as well.
+
+Under the hood, it will use `git` for version control of your configs (as that makes a lot of sense).