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Recovering game developer. Day job: freelance coder - golang, c++, python, whatever
Homepage: http://scumways.com Github: https://github.com/bcampbell hnchat:DTDx3kSsW16z809fMXZ1
In a similar vein, there's also this 2008 blog post about DPaint which nailed a UI concept I kind of sensed but couldn't articulate:
"The importance of Exuberance in User Experience" (Site seems to be down right now, but the wayback machine has it) https://web.archive.org/web/20160611170615/http://designblog...
I definitely want Palette colour cycling! But getting some support in there for layers is my current priority. Development is driven by whatever missing feature currently annoys me the most :-)
I use https://www.mingw-w64.org for the windows build - which makes it nice and easy to get the compiler and dependencies installed (Qt, libpng, libjpeg, giflib). Once you've got the dependencies set up it Just Works (tm), on Linux, Windows and Mac (although I don't have a mac to build/test on these days).
I feel compelled to plug my own DPaint-inspired app: http://evilpixie.scumways.com/
You can tell it's a really professional project because I wrote a press release for the last version:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2022-12-13 / SCUMWAYS TOP SECRET VOLCANO LAIR
Art World Rocked by Amazing New EvilPixie Release
New version features vibrant, brand new pixels.
Scumways Corp. today announced a new release of it's legendary pixel-editing application EvilPixie.
The new '0.3 "Your in test" TCE Shanghai Gutter' release is a revolutionary new development providing an experience unlike any other pixel art package in the history of pixel art packages[1].
With a huge established audience of dedicated fans[2], this new release promises to take the industry by storm.
Scumways Corp. spokesman Brian Credibility today said "Our studies show that this new release provides 754.1% more synergy than the next leading brand. The clients we've been working rave about increased pixel yields, and love the enterprise-wide approach to the unique value proposition when integrated into quadruple-A next-generation middle-out distributed landscape personal environment cloud-based network-enabled local client ecosystems."
Via séance, notable artists have also given their unanimous endorsement:
"I'll definitely be using this to demonstrate Commodore's next computer." - Spirit of Andy Warhol
"Questa fantastica app sono i fottuti testicoli del cane!" - Spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci
"Se ve un poco raro" - Spirit of Salvador Dali
https://github.com/bcampbell/evilpixie/releases
[1] Except Deluxe Paint, which it apes shamelessly, down to the keyboard shortcuts. And all the Dpaint clones, of course. And asesprite. And ProMotion. And all the other pixelart apps. But other than that, there's _nothing_ like it out there!
[2] The programmer and his 11-year old daughter, who use it occasionally.
SEEKING WORK - Christchurch, New Zealand or Remote
Currently fluent in: golang, c/c++, python, php
Looking for interesting part time or one-off coding jobs.
Homepage: http://scumways.com Github: https://github.com/bcampbell
Background in games development, but most recently been working as the resident coder at the Media Standards Trust (http://mediastandardstrust.org), trying to foster improved standards of Journalism :-)
Fluent in web development, but retain a distinct scepticism about the current javascript-required-absolutely-everywhere trend.
If you've got any Commodore 64 coding you need done, I'm definitely interested :-)
Oop - thanks!
I've had it running on OSX, but haven't tried it recently. I'd expect there to be a few hiccups, but nothing fundamental.
You're not the only one who thinks fondly of DPaint!
shameless plug: here's the paint program I've been working on:
http://evilpixie.scumways.com/
(the most up-to-date code is the 'rgba' branch in github: https://github.com/bcampbell/evilpixie/tree/rgba )
Or, as Jarvis Cocker put it: "Shit floats" :-)
But can't an adblocker just add:
example.com/proxy/*
(of course, the URLs could be camouflaged to look like real ones... eg:
http://example.com/a-very-legit-looking-article
From their white paper:
The technology used by Secret Media makes
sure that each ad gets a specific URL that cannot
be nor found not added to EasyList by the community.
Either way, I'm genuinely curious to see what they have in mind...
That kind of site appears to be soooo easy to get media coverage for. I wrote a blog post a couple of years back covering a similar UK-based site and how good they were at getting stories planted in the papers. Those free-loving libertines at the Daily Mail especially seem to lap it up :-)
http://unsourced.org/blog/illicit-sex-and-free-advertising.h...
It doesn't really have a depth buffer - only enough for a single scanline at a time.
Are there countries that use slashes for d/m/y?
Oh yes, loads of them. Lots more than use m/d/y anyway. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
Canada looks the most hellish, eg: "Immigration Canada Stamps use DD/MM/YYYY and Canada Customs Stamps use MM/DD/YYYY." eek!
Along somewhat similar lines, my own date/time-parsing library for golang: https://github.com/bcampbell/fuzzytime
I wrote it to parse dates and times in news articles and blog posts. Still a work-in-progress, but someone might find it useful!
Cool - will definitely install!
I've been working on some projects along similar lines. First one is http://churnalism.com/extension
Browser extensions which check news articles against a central database of press releases, and can highlight shared text. Disclaimers: It's pretty UK-centric and I think the infrastructure needs a lot more work. I'm somewhat hesitant to expose it to HN at all... but hey :-)
There is also http://unsourced.org, which lets you attach warning labels onto news articles. There's a browser extension for that too, but the whole project is pretty quiescent right now while I work on other things. But I've got a lot of plans for both these projects...
Not one of mine, but for a more US-oriented tool, also check out: http://churnalism.sunlightfoundation.com/ (again a website + browser extension combo)
I'm veering toward thinking of bootstrap as more of a naming convention than anything else. I've been using it recently and it's nice enough, but feels a bit heavyweight for the sorts of things I want to use it for. In future I think I'll probably do my own css, but use bootstrap naming conventions, where appropriate.
Penny Arcade have been running a public information campaign on punctuation for a few years now...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/07/07
(and http://www.penny-arcade.com/archive/results/search&keywords=... )
Don't forget about The Muppets!
I'm running Ubuntu on a Thinkpad X230 (with the IPS screen), and loving it. The windows 7 install it came with was the usual crapware trainwreck, but not really my problem - the Ubuntu install was quick, smooth and trivial.
It's a lot zippier than I was expecting, and even the intel 3D was surprisingly quick.
My only real niggle is the trackpad - it seems to jump multiple pixels at a time under ubuntu, and feels very rough. I suspect pointer acceleration is being applied more than once, although I never use the trackpad so I've not investigated in any depth.
cough http://evilpixie.scumways.com cough
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