Chiseling Out a Non-Blocking Workflow
Setting the Stage: Context for the Curious Book Reader
This entry serves as an important case study in the Age of AI regarding the limitations of ‘fire-and-forget’ assumptions in automation. What follows is a diagnostic exploration of how a seemingly benign blocking subprocess call created a deterministic loop freeze, and the subsequent implementation of a threaded execution strategy to restore pipeline fluidity.
Technical Journal Entry Begins
MikeLev.in: Uh oh! I think my “UPDATING” Figlet banner gets stuck up there and the
automatic article reading never resumes if you don’t use the --reboot flag to
restart the entire outer loop. I’ll include the 2 recent articles that touched
on the topic to see if you can diagnose the issue. What happens is after I do a
site release, it just never starts reading the new article. The “UPDATE” banner
seems to just get stuck up there displaying after this:
The Diagnosis: When Automation Stalls
(nix) pipulate $ article
✅ Article sanitized! (Secrets and loose IP addresses redacted)
🎯 Default target auto-selected: MikeLev.in (Public)
Calling the Universal Adapter (using gemini-flash-lite-latest)...
Successfully received response from API.
Successfully parsed JSON instructions.
✅ Instructions saved to 'instructions.json' for future use.
Formatting final Jekyll post...
📅 First post of the day. sort_order set to 1.
✨ Success! Article saved to: /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/_posts/2026-06-23-chiseling-digital-space-terminal-efficiency.md
Collect new 404s: python prompt_foo.py assets/prompts/find404s.md --chop CHOP_404_AFFAIR -l [:] --no-tree
🔗 Paste-ready preview URL copied to clipboard:
http://localhost:4001/futureproof/chiseling-digital-space-terminal-efficiency/
(nix) pipulate $ preview
🔒 Locked Target: MikeLev.in (Public)
🛤️ Active Pipeline: 9 steps
--- 🏷️ Branding Markdown Files ---
✅ Applied semantic branding to 1 files.
--- 🚀 Step: sanitizer.py ---
ℹ️ No secrets or exposed IP addresses found. Article is already clean.
✅ sanitizer.py complete (0.05s).
--- 🚀 Step: contextualizer.py ---
🎯 Target set via CLI: MikeLev.in (Public)
🔍 Scanning /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/_posts...
📝 1 articles need context.
🔑 Switch-on: 'default' | Batch Size: 1
[1/1] Processing: 2026-06-23-chiseling-digital-space-terminal-efficiency.md...
↳ Input Tokens: 3688 ... ↳ 🧠 Forged by: gemini-flash-lite-latest
✅ Saved (0.00s)
✨ Grand Total: 1 articles processed across 1 keys.
✅ contextualizer.py complete (10.57s).
--- 🚀 Step: gsc_historical_fetch.py ---
🚀 Starting GSC Historical Dragnet for sc-domain:mikelev.in
📅 Pivot Date (Crash): 2025-04-23
⏳ Fetching last 16 months of data...
[2026-05] Fetching... ✓ 180 pages / 3 clicks
[2026-04] Fetching... ✓ 232 pages / 5 clicks
[2026-03] Fetching... ✓ 332 pages / 10 clicks
[2026-02] Fetching... ✓ 275 pages / 11 clicks
[2026-01] Fetching... ✓ 370 pages / 8 clicks
[2025-12] Fetching... ✓ 476 pages / 114 clicks
[2025-11] Fetching... ✓ 408 pages / 16 clicks
[2025-10] Fetching... ✓ 390 pages / 37 clicks
[2025-09] Fetching... ✓ 272 pages / 24 clicks
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[2025-05] Fetching... ✓ 300 pages / 75 clicks
[2025-04] Fetching... ✓ 323 pages / 232 clicks
[2025-03] Fetching... ✓ 246 pages / 1592 clicks
[2025-02] Fetching... ✓ 117 pages / 422 clicks
🧮 Calculating Velocity and Health Scores for 1090 unique slugs...
💾 Saved velocity data to /home/mike/repos/pipulate/scripts/articles/gsc_velocity.json
💎 Total Unique Content Nodes Grounded: 1090
✅ gsc_historical_fetch.py complete (19.89s).
--- 🚀 Step: build_knowledge_graph.py ---
🚀 Initializing Cartographer (Unified Graph Builder)...
🎯 Target set via CLI: MikeLev.in (Public)
💎 Loading 1243 shards from /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/_posts/_context...
🧠 Clustering 1233 articles into Canonical Tree...
✅ Generated NavGraph: navgraph.json
✅ Generated D3 Graph: graph.json (1594 nodes)
✅ Generated Sitemaps: Core, Hubs, Branches, and Root Index
✅ build_knowledge_graph.py complete (7.34s).
--- 🚀 Step: generate_llms_txt.py ---
📚 Extracting metadata from: /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/_posts
✅ Successfully generated: /home/mike/repos/pipulate/scripts/articles/llms.txt
✅ generate_llms_txt.py complete (3.33s).
--- 🚀 Step: link_injector.py ---
🎯 Target set via CLI: MikeLev.in (Public)
🔗 Rebuilding Pipulate-Specific Ledgers in _posts...
✅ Ledger Updated: 2026-06-23-chiseling-digital-space-terminal-efficiency.md
✨ Ledger injection complete. Modified 1 files.
✅ link_injector.py complete (1.51s).
--- 🚀 Step: generate_hubs.py ---
🎯 Target set via CLI: MikeLev.in (Public)
🚀 Generating Hubs for: trimnoir
🧹 Cleaned: /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/pages
🏠 Homepage Include: /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/_includes/home_hub.md
✅ generate_hubs.py complete (0.16s).
--- 🚀 Step: generate_redirects.py ---
🎯 Target set via CLI: MikeLev.in (Public)
🛠️ Forging Nginx map from _raw_map.csv...
🪄 Slug-corrected: /jupyter-notebooks/nix/nix/ -> /nix-flakes/nix/nix/
🛡️ Protected Living URL (Collision Avoided): /jupyter-notebook/jupyter-notebooks/linear-workflow/
🪄 Slug-corrected: /jupyter-notebooks/nix/pipulate/ -> /nix-flakes/jupyter-notebooks/pipulate/
🪄 Slug-corrected: /jupyter-notebooks/pipulate/nixos/ -> /nix-flakes/nix/nixos/
🪄 Slug-corrected: /seo/pipulate/python/ -> /htmx/python/python/
🪄 Slug-corrected: /jupyter-notebooks/ai-debugging/jekyll/ -> /nix-flakes/nix-flakes/jekyll/
🧹 Pruned and synchronized raw CSV ledger.
✅ Nginx map forged successfully at _redirects.map
✅ generate_redirects.py complete (3.80s).
--- 🚀 Step: sanitize_redirects.py ---
🎯 Target set via CLI: MikeLev.in (Public)
🧹 Sanitizing Nginx map: _redirects.map...
✅ Map file is already pristine.
✅ sanitize_redirects.py complete (0.09s).
--- 📦 Syncing Data to Jekyll ---
✅ Synced graph.json -> /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/graph.json
✅ Synced llms.txt -> /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/llms.txt
✅ Synced sitemap-branch-6.xml -> /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/sitemap-branch-6.xml
✅ Synced sitemap-branch-0.xml -> /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/sitemap-branch-0.xml
✅ Synced sitemap-branch-5.xml -> /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/sitemap-branch-5.xml
✅ Synced sitemap.xml -> /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/sitemap.xml
✅ Synced sitemap-branch-4.xml -> /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/sitemap-branch-4.xml
✅ Synced sitemap-branch-2.xml -> /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/sitemap-branch-2.xml
✅ Synced sitemap-hubs.xml -> /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/sitemap-hubs.xml
✅ Synced sitemap-branch-1.xml -> /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/sitemap-branch-1.xml
✅ Synced sitemap-posts.xml -> /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/sitemap-posts.xml
✅ Synced sitemap-core.xml -> /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/sitemap-core.xml
✅ Synced sitemap-branch-3.xml -> /home/mike/repos/trimnoir/sitemap-branch-3.xml
✨ All steps completed successfully in 46.75s.
(nix) pipulate $ publish "Pull tight banners"
🚀 [1/3] Payload Delivery: Committing and Pushing /home/mike/repos/trimnoir...
[main 2074f3378] Pull tight banners
488 files changed, 13271 insertions(+), 12693 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 _posts/2026-06-23-chiseling-digital-space-terminal-efficiency.md
[A ton of node creation and deletion I deleted here for size]
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Total 379 (delta 265), reused 1 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (265/265), completed with 100 local objects.
remote: 🎯 [Hook] Received Push. Deploying...
remote: Already on 'main'
remote: 🔨 [Hook] Starting Hybrid Build...
remote: [DEPRECATED] Using the `config` command without a subcommand [list, get, set, unset] is deprecated and will be removed in the future. Use `bundle config set build.nokogiri --use-system-libraries` instead.
remote: [DEPRECATED] Using the `config` command without a subcommand [list, get, set, unset] is deprecated and will be removed in the future. Use `bundle config set build.ffi --enable-system-libffi` instead.
remote: [DEPRECATED] Using the `config` command without a subcommand [list, get, set, unset] is deprecated and will be removed in the future. Use `bundle config set build.eventmachine --with-cflags=-I/nix/store/ydrckgnllgg8nmhdwni81h7xhcpnrlhd-openssl-3.6.0-dev/include` instead.
remote: Linux detected. Skipping Neovim setup as it's not needed.
remote: /tmp/nix-shell.oylUND: line 2715: xc: command not found
remote: /tmp/nix-shell.oylUND: line 2716: xcp: command not found
remote: /tmp/nix-shell.oylUND: line 2717: xv: command not found
remote: Jekyll environment ready (quiet mode).
remote: Run 'jes' to start the server manually.
remote: 🏗️ Jekyll Build...
remote: Configuration file: /home/mike/www/mikelev.in/_config.yml
remote: Source: /home/mike/www/mikelev.in
remote: Destination: /home/mike/www/mikelev.in/_site
remote: Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
remote: Generating...
remote: done in 7.556 seconds.
remote: Auto-regeneration: disabled. Use --watch to enable.
remote: 📄 Publishing Source Markdown (Chisel-Strike)...
remote: ✨ Python Scalpel: Successfully dyed 1232 articles in one pass.
remote: 🗺️ Deploying Nginx Redirect Map...
remote: 🔒 [Hook] Fixing Permissions...
remote: 🔔 [Hook] Ringing the breaking-news bell...
remote: ✅ [Hook] Deployment Complete. Site is Live.
To [REDACTED_IP]:~/git/mikelev.in.git
65a1ea6f6..2074f3378 main -> main
🚀 [2/3] Infrastructure: Synchronizing Server Configurations...
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post-receive 100% 2311 469.8KB/s 00:00
🚀 Syncing Scripts (New Location)...
sending incremental file list
deleting aquarium_tui.py
deleting aquarium.py
deleting __pycache__/score.cpython-313.pyc
deleting __pycache__/forest.cpython-313.pyc
deleting __pycache__/db.cpython-313.pyc
deleting __pycache__/content_loader.cpython-313.pyc
./
stream.py
__pycache__/
sent 3,298 bytes received 483 bytes 7,562.00 bytes/sec
total size is 170,596 speedup is 45.12
sending incremental file list
ascii_displays.py
sent 2,637 bytes received 623 bytes 2,173.33 bytes/sec
total size is 69,738 speedup is 21.39
🚀 Syncing NixOS Config...
sending incremental file list
sent 119 bytes received 12 bytes 87.33 bytes/sec
total size is 18,971 speedup is 144.82
✅ Sync Complete.
To apply NixOS config: ssh -t mike@[REDACTED_IP] 'sudo cp ~/nixos-config-staged/* /etc/nixos/ && sudo nixos-rebuild switch'
🚀 [3/4] The Capstone: Rebuilding Nginx Routes...
[sudo] password for mike:
building the system configuration...
evaluation warning: The option `services.logind.lidSwitchExternalPower' defined in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' has been renamed to `services.logind.settings.Login.HandleLidSwitchExternalPower'.
evaluation warning: The option `services.logind.lidSwitch' defined in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' has been renamed to `services.logind.settings.Login.HandleLidSwitch'.
evaluation warning: The option `services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.wayland' defined in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' has been renamed to `services.displayManager.gdm.wayland'.
evaluation warning: The option `services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.enable' defined in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' has been renamed to `services.displayManager.gdm.enable'.
activating the configuration...
setting up /etc...
reloading user units for mike...
restarting sysinit-reactivation.target
the following new units were started: NetworkManager-dispatcher.service
Done. The new configuration is /nix/store/0i4i8xr4lw02f3li96cjf439jazh9s8a-nixos-system-honeybot-26.05pre913595.c6245e83d836
Connection to [REDACTED_IP] closed.
⏭️ [4/4] Skipped — stream.py left running. Pass --reboot to force the restart now.
✅ Atomic Deployment Complete (stream untouched).
(nix) pipulate
And then after it got stuck, I did this which got it running again:
(nix) pipulate $ publish "Pull tight banners" --reboot
🚀 [1/3] Payload Delivery: Committing and Pushing /home/mike/repos/trimnoir...
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'home/main'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
Everything up-to-date
🚀 [2/3] Infrastructure: Synchronizing Server Configurations...
🚀 Syncing Hooks...
post-receive 100% 2311 481.2KB/s 00:00
🚀 Syncing Scripts (New Location)...
sending incremental file list
sent 700 bytes received 13 bytes 1,426.00 bytes/sec
total size is 170,596 speedup is 239.27
sending incremental file list
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total size is 69,738 speedup is 860.96
🚀 Syncing NixOS Config...
sending incremental file list
sent 119 bytes received 12 bytes 262.00 bytes/sec
total size is 18,971 speedup is 144.82
✅ Sync Complete.
To apply NixOS config: ssh -t mike@[REDACTED_IP] 'sudo cp ~/nixos-config-staged/* /etc/nixos/ && sudo nixos-rebuild switch'
🚀 [3/4] The Capstone: Rebuilding Nginx Routes...
[sudo] password for mike:
building the system configuration...
evaluation warning: The option `services.logind.lidSwitchExternalPower' defined in `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix' has been renamed to `services.logind.settings.Login.HandleLidSwitchExternalPower'.
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activating the configuration...
setting up /etc...
reloading user units for mike...
restarting sysinit-reactivation.target
the following new units were started: NetworkManager-dispatcher.service
Done. The new configuration is /nix/store/0i4i8xr4lw02f3li96cjf439jazh9s8a-nixos-system-honeybot-26.05pre913595.c6245e83d836
Connection to [REDACTED_IP] closed.
🚀 [4/4] Stream Refresh: Restarting Honeybot slideshow child...
old=1733263
✅ Atomic Deployment Complete.
(nix) pipulate $
…but that is sub-optimal. Can you help me diagnose?
Claude Opus 4.8 Low: Context verified.
The bug is real, deterministic, and it’s the latent error from the June 21 session finally biting you. Back then both Claude and ChatGPT eyeballed conjure_window and concluded it was “non-blocking fire-and-forget with internal teardown.” That was wrong, and you now have the actual source in context to prove it.
The diagnosis
Look at conjure_window in imports/ascii_displays.py (the shared actuator the Honeybot conjure_window delegates to). Its tail is:
proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, ...)
...
try:
proc.wait(timeout=duration) # ← THIS BLOCKS
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
proc.terminate()
proc.wait(timeout=duration) blocks the calling thread for the full duration (or until the window closes on its own). And card.py self-holds for 900s, so the window never closes early on its own — meaning the call blocks for the entire 270s cap before returning.
Now trace the standby block in perform_show():
if check_standby():
narrator.interrupt()
narrator.say("Receiving updates...")
conjure_window("card.py", duration=270.0, args=["UPDATING"]) # ← freezes here for 270s
...
deadline = time.time() + 240
while time.time() < deadline:
if check_for_updates(): # ← never runs until the 270s freeze is over
break
time.sleep(2)
subprocess.run(["pkill", "-f", "card.py.*UPDATING"], ...) # ← teardown also stuck behind the freeze
return "BREAKING"
The whole loop is frozen inside that one inline call. Your deploy finishes in ~10s and rings the breaking-news bell, but nothing is polling check_for_updates() because that thread is parked in proc.wait. So:
Tracing the Blocking Call
- narration goes silent,
- the UPDATING banner just sits there,
- the bell stays unconsumed,
- the teardown
pkillcan’t fire.
It does eventually unstick — after the full 270s, proc.wait times out, conjure_window returns, the poll finally runs, detects the (now 4.5-minute-old) bell, kills the card, and returns "BREAKING". You almost certainly hit --reboot long before that, which kills the parked process and starts a fresh one that leads with the new article via trigger_is_fresh(). That’s why --reboot “fixes” it and why it looks permanently stuck without it.
The cheapest falsifying probe isn’t even needed externally — the proc.wait(timeout=duration) line is right there in the bundle. (If you wanted runtime confirmation: a normal publish goes dead-silent for ~4.5 min, then the banner clears and reading resumes on its own. That delay is the 270s freeze.)
The fix
Launch the card on a daemon thread so the call returns immediately and the poll loop keeps running. The existing pkill teardown still does its job: killing card.py makes alacritty exit, proc.wait returns, and the thread reaps itself. threading is already imported.
Target: remotes/honeybot/scripts/stream.py
[[[SEARCH]]]
# The outer `duration` here is a generous LAST-RESORT ceiling, not
# the thing that's supposed to close this window. The deterministic
# close is the pkill below, fired the instant check_for_updates()
# proves the deploy is actually done — never a guessed elapsed time.
conjure_window("card.py", duration=270.0, args=["UPDATING"])
[[[DIVIDER]]]
# The outer `duration` here is a generous LAST-RESORT ceiling, not
# the thing that's supposed to close this window. The deterministic
# close is the pkill below, fired the instant check_for_updates()
# proves the deploy is actually done — never a guessed elapsed time.
#
# CRITICAL: launch on a DAEMON THREAD. conjure_window() (in
# imports/ascii_displays.py) is BLOCKING — it bottoms out in
# proc.wait(timeout=duration). Called inline, it froze this entire
# loop for the full duration, starving the check_for_updates() poll
# below and leaving the UPDATING banner stuck on screen (narration
# silent) until the self-cap expired — the "never resumes without
# --reboot" bug. Threaded, the poll keeps running and the pkill
# tears the card down the instant the completion bell rings: pkill
# ends card.py, alacritty exits, proc.wait returns, the thread dies.
threading.Thread(
target=lambda: conjure_window("card.py", duration=270.0, args=["UPDATING"]),
daemon=True,
).start()
[[[REPLACE]]]
Implementation: The Threaded Fix
After this, a normal publish (no --reboot) should announce “Receiving updates…”, show the UPDATING card, then tear it down and lead straight into the new article the moment the bell rings — exactly what the --reboot path does now, but without the outer-loop restart.
One thing worth noting for later: the earlier “deterministic UI teardowns” work assumed the same non-blocking behavior, so if any other path calls conjure_window inline and expects it to return immediately, it has the same latent freeze. The single-source fix would be giving conjure_window itself a non-blocking mode (e.g. a block=False that skips proc.wait and returns the handle), but that’s a bigger surgery than this chisel-strike needs — flagging it, not doing it.
MikeLev.in: Okay, flagging but not doing is good constraint. Let’s fix this and save the non-blocking mode for later. Just mentioning it here gets it onto the to-do list refiner’s radar. You hear that to-do refiner-bot? Okay, let’s apply the patch.
$ git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
(nix) pipulate $ patch
(nix) pipulate $ cat patch | app
✅ DETERMINISTIC PATCH APPLIED: Successfully mutated 'remotes/honeybot/scripts/stream.py'.
(nix) pipulate $ d
diff --git a/remotes/honeybot/scripts/stream.py b/remotes/honeybot/scripts/stream.py
index a7fbeb1e..0b9fab91 100644
--- a/remotes/honeybot/scripts/stream.py
+++ b/remotes/honeybot/scripts/stream.py
@@ -598,7 +598,20 @@ def perform_show(script):
# the thing that's supposed to close this window. The deterministic
# close is the pkill below, fired the instant check_for_updates()
# proves the deploy is actually done — never a guessed elapsed time.
- conjure_window("card.py", duration=270.0, args=["UPDATING"])
+ #
+ # CRITICAL: launch on a DAEMON THREAD. conjure_window() (in
+ # imports/ascii_displays.py) is BLOCKING — it bottoms out in
+ # proc.wait(timeout=duration). Called inline, it froze this entire
+ # loop for the full duration, starving the check_for_updates() poll
+ # below and leaving the UPDATING banner stuck on screen (narration
+ # silent) until the self-cap expired — the "never resumes without
+ # --reboot" bug. Threaded, the poll keeps running and the pkill
+ # tears the card down the instant the completion bell rings: pkill
+ # ends card.py, alacritty exits, proc.wait returns, the thread dies.
+ threading.Thread(
+ target=lambda: conjure_window("card.py", duration=270.0, args=["UPDATING"]),
+ daemon=True,
+ ).start()
try:
subprocess.run(["pkill", "firefox"], check=False)
except Exception:
(nix) pipulate $ m
📝 Committing: chore: Thread conjure_window for non-blocking updates
[main e5f5f537] chore: Thread conjure_window for non-blocking updates
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
(nix) pipulate $ git push
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To github.com:pipulate/pipulate.git
3fd74589..e5f5f537 main -> main
(nix) pipulate $
And this is another tiny chisel-strike refinement that requires a slideshow
--reboot and which won’t really be visible until the article published after
this one. So I had better hop to it!
Future-Proofing the Architecture
Book Analysis
Ai Editorial Take
What surprised me most is how the ‘convenience’ of using a pre-packaged actuator (the Figlet banner) masked the underlying architectural flaw. This highlights a fascinating trend in the Age of AI: as we rely on sophisticated helper functions, we tend to treat them as black boxes, often missing the fundamental ‘blocking’ behavior that sits at the base of the call stack.
🐦 X.com Promo Tweet
Ever have an automation pipeline just 'get stuck'? I just diagnosed a subtle subprocess blocking bug that was freezing my entire Honeybot loop. The fix: moving to a daemon thread. Deep dive into the fix here: https://mikelev.in/futureproof/chiseling-non-blocking-workflow/ #python #automation #debugging
Title Brainstorm
- Title Option: Chiseling Out a Non-Blocking Workflow
- Filename:
chiseling-non-blocking-workflow.md - Rationale: Focuses on the methodology of refinement and the technical solution.
- Filename:
- Title Option: The Anatomy of a Pipeline Freeze
- Filename:
anatomy-of-pipeline-freeze.md - Rationale: Positions the article as a technical autopsy which is compelling for devs.
- Filename:
- Title Option: Threading Through the Bottleneck
- Filename:
threading-through-bottleneck.md - Rationale: Uses a play on words related to the technical solution implemented.
- Filename:
Content Potential And Polish
- Core Strengths:
- Highly practical, hands-on debugging narrative.
- Clear distinction between the ‘quick fix’ and the ‘long-term architecture’.
- Excellent transparency in showing both failure and resolution.
- Suggestions For Polish:
- Include a short summary of the ‘lessons learned’ regarding subprocess management.
- Ensure the code block references are clearly mapped to the final repository state.
Next Step Prompts
- Analyze the existing codebase for other instances of inline subprocess calls that might be inadvertently blocking the main loop.
- Draft a follow-up methodology on how to create a ‘non-blocking’ wrapper for the
conjure_windowfunction to avoid threading in the future.