Software on FoundingFuture

UnQuarantize, a Dropzone action

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:58:25 +0200

Dropzone is a macOS utility that sits in the menu bar. Clicking its icon opens a grid of targets, and dragging files or text onto a target runs a script called an action. This page is a guide to writing one. It covers the bundle on disk, the Ruby and Python runtimes Dropzone provides, the metadata header, the API an action talks to, and a complete worked example that removes the quarantine attribute from downloaded files. The finished bundle is linked at the end.

Building a Hugo theme

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

FoundingFuture I is a Hugo theme under the MIT license. Its source is at github.com/FoundingFuture/theme-hugo-ff1 (opens in a new tab) . This page records how it was built and every requirement the Hugo theme directory imposes. The steps apply to any theme.

Measured at version 0.1.0: 25 templates, 6 shortcodes, 11 partials, one stylesheet of 32,370 bytes holding 249 selectors, three scripts totalling 7,074 bytes, and six subset fonts.

Repository layout

A theme is a directory with a fixed set of subdirectories. Hugo reads each by name.

Cutting a small-capitals face

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Fake small capitals are shrunken capitals. It shows.

Set a word in them and it comes apart. The menu on this site sets anything that opens in small capitals. Ask a browser for that and you write:

font-variant-caps: small-caps;

If the font has small-capital glyphs, you get them. If it does not, the browser makes some by shrinking the capitals, and that is where it goes wrong.