Escaping the Fever Dream

I’ve moved from Slint to egui for the UI, and I’m feeling much better about it, actually. Don’t get me wrong, slint is very cool, but egui is just easier, has more pre-made libraries and and I’m also a huge fan of the “window-within-a-window” aesthetic (because it feels enterprise)

How I managed to spend most of the time was battling with a fever dream. CIDOC CRM is the “International Standard” for cultural heritage data. On paper, it’s perfect and just the thing I want for this. In practice however, it’s… well, a nightmare, let’s say that. I tried to migrate to SurrealDB, since migrating to CIDOC would’ve really required a graph-based database. That went absolutely nowhere at all and I never want to see a graph DB again. Lessons were learned.

I now have a working prototype that displays a paginated list of items from the database. It’s rough, but hey it’s something.