John Crenshaw — essays and Rust tools for the Linux desktop

Latest essay

Jun 10, 2026 · 10 min read

Why I pulled my applets out of the COSMIC store and went to hosting them myself. The short version: they bolted an AI gate onto a repo a maintainer admitted…

Latest code live

cosmic-ext-applet-tempest

Latest release · Jun 12, 2026

A weather applet for COSMIC: forecasts, alerts, and air quality with no account or API key.