Dear friends, comrades, partners in crime and moderate profit! I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Chafa 1.14.0. There are release notes, but who's got time for that? All the fun stuff is in this post. You should be reading it instead. Pixel perfection Images … | Continue reading
There's an old video game the memory of which recently escalated itself to my attention: Chris Crawford's Balance of Power, a geopolitics simulator first released for the Macintosh in 1985. According to Wikipedia it sold about a quarter million units, which was a lot at the time, … | Continue reading
I recently got access to OpenAI's DALL-E 2 instance. It's a lot of fun, but beyond its obvious application as a cornucopia of funny cat avatars, I think it's now fit to use in certain kinds of creative work. There are already plenty of good articles out there on the model's stre … | Continue reading
Around the end of 2020, I looked at GNOME's commit history as a proxy for the project's overall health. It was fun to do and hopefully not too boring to read. A year and a half went by since then, and it's time for an update. If you're seeing these cheerful-as-your-average-wipha … | Continue reading
Summer is coming and I've got a couple of posts cooking that may turn out mildly interesting, but — time constraints being what they are — in the meantime there's this. Chafa I (judiciously, as one might opine) pulled back from posting about every single feature release, but th … | Continue reading
Pleased to see that xsnow is still being actively maintained. | Continue reading
Improvements to the Chafa terminal graphics package: Kitty and iTerm2 protocols, newly supported terminals, new Unicode symbols, and more. | Continue reading
Chafa 1.6.0 brings fullwidth character support, so in addition to the usual block elements and ASCII art, you'll get some mean CJK art too. | Continue reading
The GNOME project turned 23 this year, and despite equally persistent rumors to the contrary, it's still alive and kicking. Just how alive, though? | Continue reading
Benchmarks and analysis of open source solutions for fast, smooth raster image scaling on the CPU. | Continue reading