As you know, even with a “simple” language like Python, porting a desktop application to a new version of GTK can be a pretty significant amount of work; doubly so when it is accompanied by major refactoring of the app itself at the same time. In Getting Things GNOME‘s case, th … | Continue reading
Among the many new features in Bear 2 is our own custom font, Bear Sans. Being a writing (and reading) app, we have quite a few users who care about how their text looks while they work. We thought it would be fun to explore the how and why Bear Sans came to be the […] | Continue reading
This is me, giving my now-48yo brain a birthday break by skipping any attempt at meaningfulness & instead sharing just some pure exuberant mayhem. 🤘😛🤘 | Continue reading
Sorry for the disturbance in the force, the mystic code gods are working out how to unfuck the blog That’ll teach me to press the “update” button | Continue reading
(Reminder: Americans, when you see me talking about my medical situation on the open internet, do not incorrectly generalize from this to think that I think that discussing one's medical situation on the open internet is an okay thing to do under your actual name. It is a risky t … | Continue reading
Speaking of using Generative Fill to build up areas with missing detail, check out this 30-second demo of old photo restoration: And though it’s not presently available in Photoshop, check out this use of ControlNet to revive an old family photo: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDi … | Continue reading
openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release distribution, so it's ideal for developers and users that like to have the bleeding edge software. It's also really "stable" to be a rolling release, from time to time you can find a broken package because of one package is updated and ano … | Continue reading
Today I’m happy to officially announce a project that has been the culmination of about five months of work. This makes it probably the most involved programming project I’ve ever done, and I’m proud of the final result. The GUI ecosystem in Rust is still in a nascent stage. Ther … | Continue reading
This project has driven me to the brink, but we’re just about there now. We’re in the home stretch! Last time, we struggled to integrate text into [piet-cosmic-text] and therefore piet-hardware. This time, it all ends. We have six samples left to go by my count, so it’s time to g … | Continue reading
Whenever I’ve talked to someone else who writes a drawing interface like this, it seems like they always say text is the hardest part. But obviously, I’m built different, right? Last time, I integrated gradients more completely into my piet-hardware crate. Today, we’re moving ont … | Continue reading
Note: this blog post was not written by me. It was posted as a comment on r/rust by user matthieum, and was so well received that I thought it deserved to reach a broader audience. He gave me permission to repost it here. Everything below this paragraph has been taken verbatim fr … | Continue reading
Thank you for coming to the the 1st Contribution Hackathon at GUADEC 2023. As the name implies, in this event, we’ll teach you how to make your first code contribution to GNOME. Buckle up! Setup There are three components that we need for making the contribution: flatpak, flathub … | Continue reading
It’s 2023, and you can make all of this with your GD telephone. And just as amazingly, a year or two from now, we’ll look back on feeling this way & find it quaint. | Continue reading
Happy Monday, courtesy of the AI-wrangling minds at Curious Refuge. 😌 | Continue reading
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If you’re an IndyCar fan that has grown tired of street and road courses, the Hy-Vee IndyCar weekend at Iowa Speedway is just what you’ve been waiting for. For old-school race fans like me, this weekend is something of a throwback. For only the third time this season, the NTT Ind … | Continue reading
You probably all know that you can easily access files on connected devices using the sidebar items in the Files application. Most of you also know that the Other Locations view provides access to internal storage and some other discovered services. But I have recently noticed th … | Continue reading
Tap tap tap is this thing on? Okay back to dictation. Only now I'm using the fully privacy-violating Google Assistant speech to text functionality of my Android phone, because I am not quite at this moment up to using my computer for reasons that will shortly become clear.Last we … | Continue reading
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10,000x smaller & 25x faster? My old Google teammates & their collaborators, who changed the generative game last year by enabling custom model training, are now proposing to upend things further by enabling training via a single image—and massively faster, too. Check out this th … | Continue reading
In the corner of my eye, our very stable (golden)doodle is happily sawing logs while I share this link to Stable Doodle, a fun little drawing tool from the folks at Stable Diffusion: It helps produce sketch-to-image combos like this: | Continue reading
Easing into the week with fun cultural detritus + Photoshop magic… 😌 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Daniyar Oskenbay (@savvydone) | Continue reading
Check it out! Details, if you’re interested: What’s new with Adobe Firefly? Firefly can now support prompts in over 100 languages. Also, the Firefly website is now available in Japanese, French, German, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese, with additional languages to come. How are … | Continue reading
I had a ball chatting last week with Farhad & Faraz on the Bad Decisions Podcast. (My worst decision was to so fully embrace vacation that I spaced on when we were supposed to chat, leaving me to scramble from the dog park & go tear-assing home to hop on the chat. Hence my terrib … | Continue reading
Rookie Benjamin Pedersen did not make many friends in the paddock, this past weekend at Mid-Ohio. For those that missed it, Pedersen incurred the wrath of race-winner and current points leader Alex Palou for not letting Palou get by to lap him. He later angered several other driv … | Continue reading
I'm spending some time every week working in the rpmlint project. The tool is very stable and the functionality is well defined, implemented and tested, so there's no crazy development or a lot of new functionalities, but as in all the software, there are always bugs to solve and … | Continue reading
Dependency resolution is something programmers usually take for granted. Be it cargo, npm, or whatever package manager you use, no one is actually surprised when this black-box figures out, all by itself, the specific set of packages that should be installed. To me, though, it is … | Continue reading
No, Elon and Jack are not ‘competitors’. They’re collaborating. Musk and the people backing all this are more interested in reshaping the global order than in earning fake “fiat currency.” Their real goal is to usher in “hard currency” and re-base global currencies around scarcit … | Continue reading
It’s high time for some vector graphics. Last time, we set up our harnesses for piet rendering using our hardware-based backends and adjusted it for multisampling and scaling. Today, let’s focus on getting some more samples rendered. The next few samples exhibit line styling and … | Continue reading
Doc's Harvard blog, a mainstay of the post-blog-boom blogosphere, is about to go away. I started the service that hosted Doc's blog. You know how they say in startups, will the last person to leave please turn the lights out? Well we both lived to see the end of the dream, Doc an … | Continue reading
Check out this great little demo from Rob de Winter: OK, this makes @Photoshop Generative Fill even more powerful. Make a rough sketch with the brush tool and generate an image based on it.❤️Find all the steps in the thread below #GenerativeAI #photoshop #photoshopai #beta #gener … | Continue reading
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are still a sore subject in Rust. The ecosystem is certainly better than when I started was a few years ago, with egui and iced providing successful models for GUI projects. However, I still think there are models to explore that are interesting a … | Continue reading
Salvation arrives, my thinning kings. 😌 And tangentially, see how baldness helped enhance Photoshop masking 15 years ago. 👴🏻 | Continue reading
A response from Coralie Mercier at the W3C and my response. I'm hoping they'll point to the actual RSS 2.0 spec instead of trying to host a hacked version of the spec. You can't ethically take the copyright notice off someone else's work and pass it off as your own. Sure it happe … | Continue reading
Sometimes qualifying features few surprises, and pretty much mirrors what we saw in practice. Such was not the case in today’s NTT IndyCar Series qualifying for tomorrow’s Sonsio Grand Prix at Road America. Josef Newgarden had been mostly average in the first two practices, but w … | Continue reading
2023 June 10: nohaaboelatamd on Twitter, https://twitter.com/NohaAboelataMD/status/1667409023963140096: I've been wondering why I never see ads for masks for covid. I'm guessing this explains it in part? It'll be interesting to see what's next in the commercialization of the pand … | Continue reading
Check out the quick vid below! And check out this page for details on getting & using the feature. | Continue reading
Happy Friday! It's time... The Acid Clan EP is now live! 🥳 Four tracks of acidy goodness: Acid Clan (04:38) Creeping Anxiety (07:43) Round and Around (06:31) False Pretences (06:24) This is the start of a new journey. While I had released a few albums back on the old mp3. … | Continue reading
Yuan (? dynasty (1271-1368) jade seal in the Bristol Museum: Know what language this is, or even what it says? Yes? Please get back to me. No? Please retweet it until somebody does. (But be aware, it's stumped some quite clever people who've already been asked, so it isn& … | Continue reading
Yesterday I sent out a posting and notified our readership, but failed to put it on Bcc (whatever that means) and it allowed them to see everyone else's email address. I apologized profusely but not enough for some and too much for others. Here is the list of replies I got an … | Continue reading
I love this kind of silliness—just the right mix of idiom & constraint to bring out folks’ creativity. | Continue reading
New data from Australia, which pioneered plain packaging and has the highest cigarette taxes in the world and has always banned nicotine vapes, shows that youth smoking has increased six-fold since 2019. Way to go 🇦🇺! https://t.co/khPL0cnSgH pic.twitter.com/4z0lnt … | Continue reading
When you see only one set of footprints on the sand… that’s when Russell GenFilled you out. 😅 On a chilly morning two years ago, I trekked out to the sand dunes in Death Valley to help (or at least observe) Russell on a dawn photoshoot with some amazing performers and cos … | Continue reading
Tara Reade, the woman who accused Joe Biden of having sexually assaulted her when she worked for him as a Congressional aide, has “defected” to Russia. BREAKING: A Statement and Press Conference from Tara Reade @ReadeAlexandra https://t.co/BixNvE1TGs — Tara Reade (@ReadeAlexandr … | Continue reading
It’s an exciting time for GUI in Rust. There are now quite a few, well written windowing libraries in Rust. winit is the leader of the pack, with the best platform support and a newly merged keyboard support PR that positions it to become the dominant windowing system in the ecos … | Continue reading
Regular readers of my blog1 know I have been planning to write on my recent contract contributing to Quinn, the popular Rust implementation of the QUIC protocol. I originally intended to write a deep-dive into the QUIC features I implemented, but the blog post took a life of its … | Continue reading