RSSAmplifier

Blog

Jan Hovancik

Open-source enthusiast, connecting the dots in Product teams.

hovancik.netRSS feed ↗11 posts

Latest posts

Stretchly 1.22.1 is now available

Hi everyone, I am really happy to announce, that version 1.22.1 of Stretchly is here! You can download it from downloads page. Thanks to everyone for their support ! Fixed tray icon system theme now follows the Windows mode used by the taskbar instead of the default app mode Do Not Disturb no longer stays active when Windows Focus Assist is unsupported improve LXQt DND detection snap build Changed…

Stretchly 1.22 is now available

Hi everyone, I am really happy to announce, that version 1.22 of Stretchly is here! You can download it from downloads page. Thanks to everyone for their support ! Added Windows installer now adds stretchly to PATH so CLI commands (e.g. stretchly pause ) can be run from any terminal without specifying the full executable path advanced option breakContentScreen to show break countdown/idea only on…

Introducing Pulsar ACP Agent

Atom was my favorite editor until GitHub sunset it. Luckily, the project lives on as Pulsar . One thing it’s missing, though, is support for agentic workflows , so I figured I’d add it myself. Agent Client Protocol Because of my work at Microsoft, I’m using/trying different editors/IDEs. Zed is one I was looking at recently and thus found out about ACP - which standardizes communication between…

Stretchly 1.21 is now available

Hi everyone, I am really happy to announce, that version 1.21 of Stretchly is here! You can download it from downloads page. Thanks to everyone for their support ! Added advanced option for Break Health Mode Fixed fix focus mode detection on macOS Tahoe fix idle time detection on Wayland Changed increased font size of current time in break window moved macOS Homebrew installation to custom tap…

Stretchly 1.20 is now available

Hi everyone, I am really happy to announce, that version 1.20 of Stretchly is here! You can download it from downloads page. Thanks to everyone for their support ! Added new icon styles preference for tray (showing time to break or visual progress to break) Autostart functionality in Flatpaks portable version for Windows set autostart based on the config file value Fixed snap package not starting…

Fixing Good First Issues: A simple way to support Open Source

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft. The views in this article are my own and do not necessarily represent Microsoft. It’s no secret that funding Open Source (OSS) projects is an issue that hasn’t been solved yet. (I’ll stop myself from linking memes illustrating the situation all too well.) Many individuals and companies try to help financially, but not everyone can donate, not everyone accepts…

Stretchly 1.19 is now available

Hi everyone, I am really happy to announce, that version 1.19 of Stretchly is here! You can download it from downloads page. Thanks to everyone for their support ! Added allow to show some HTML in breaks advanced option for manual finish mode for breaks (breaks are only finished after user’s interaction) advanced option to set preferred sound to be played at the beginning of breaks Fixed hide…

Stretchly 1.18 is now available

Hi everyone, I am really happy to announce, that version 1.18 of Stretchly is here! You can download it from downloads page. Thanks to everyone for their support ! Added Yiddish and Tamil translations advanced option to show custom message in Preferences advanced option to hide location of Preferences file in Debug info advanced option to disable app update features advanced option to hide Strict…

Stretchly 1.17 is now available

Hi everyone, I am really happy to announce, that version 1.17 of Stretchly is here! You can download it from downloads page. Thanks to everyone for their support ! Added Bengali, Catalan, Greek and Serbian translations it is not possible to close app during break that is in strict mode logs command line option to show location of logs advanced option to make break windows’ background blurred…

Stretchly 1.16 is now available

Hi everyone, I am really happy to announce, that version 1.16 of Stretchly is here! You can download it from downloads page. Thanks to everyone for their support ! Added Estonia and Belarus translations advanced option to show break options (Skip, Pause, Reset) in Strict mode autostart option for Linux keyboard shortcuts for pause breaks for specific durations Changed updated many translations…

Stretchly 1.15 is now available

Hi everyone, I am really happy to announce, that version 1.15 of Stretchly is here! You can download it from downloads page. Thanks to everyone for their support ! Added new end-of-the-break sound both left and right click on tray opens menu (Windows) double click on tray opens Preferences (Windows) adds Vietnamese translations reset breaks shortcut (advanced option) skip to the next break…