Mark B. Tomlinson

I am back on Bluesky after a break and decided to add a link to my profile on the front page.

To turn off the Firefox rounded Tabs: In the browser address bar type: about:config Then search for: nova Then change the boolean value of: browser.nova.enabled to false If you can’t find the setting you can add it.

After many years of posting and maintaining a small but active little website blog on this domain, I decided in the night I’d had enough and didn’t see the point of having all my old data online and available to scrappers and other online thievery.

I did a few prints of some of my models a couple of years ago, unfortunately I rendered them too dark for hanging on the wall.

After setting up my new network I found I couldn’t connect to my MacBook using its hostname, which is a pain for local web work in HUGO.

We are now 14 days in the new house and both very happy.

After just over two years here in this old town in Northern Germany we are on the eve of another move, hopefully this is the last one.

I posted this earlier this morning on Mastodon In the middle of the night I have an idea for an over due blog post: let me now cogitate and procrastinate for a while.

Some renders of my recent doodle model I made.

So far this month has been a really hard one heat wise and today we finally have it a little cooler.

June is already half way through and I haven’t posted anything again.

I started with some lined paper and ended up with a little note book.

Use the following steps to clean Windows crap Open the run dialog with Win + R Prefetch Folder Type in Run box: prefetch Select all the files and delete, Windows won’t allow you to delete protected currently used files so skip those.

I needed a new pen Mine ran out of ink, so I decided to make one in Blender as is my wont: Parker pen in blue and steel: Parker pen top clip close up: Parker pen in red and steel: Parker pen ball tip close up: Parker pen in wireframe overlay: #mbt3d #b3d…

I don’t know how this affects images but I turned on: ShowFullTextinRSS: true I added this line in the config.yaml I really don’t care if it show the full post in the RSS, and personally I like that function when I am brwsing feeds.

I made a note: Social Media Posting post in the middle of the night: I have noticed a distinct decline in interactions on Mastodon recently, the last and only social media platform I still use…. and after some feed back and thought I decided I would do a…

After trying various tips and tricks, I found a solution.

I was thinking recently about computers, computing and programming.

On Mac there is a shortcut to enter fractional elements in text, for example a 1⁄2 is: 1 ALT SHIFT 2 So Numerator then alt shift then Denominator.

Blogging As some may be aware I am quite a quiet fan of blogs and blogging.

Over the last few years I have read and listened to many books.

To open the Windows Subsystem Linux from the File Explorer enter the following in the address bar: \\wsl$ to open a specific Distro add it to the path, for example: \\wsl$\Debian

March Of Time March is nearly over and European Summer Time is just a few days away, and I haven’t posted on here again.

Create a directory if it doesn’t exist: import os.path isdir = os.path.isdir(postpath) if not isdir: os.mkdir(postpath)

You can pause the execution of a shell script using read like this: read -t 5 -p "press any key to resume, will exit in 5 sec ..."

Dark Days This year has not got off to a particularly good start, geopolitically at least, and do not worry this is not going to focus on that, it is only the basis for my current state of well-being.

End Of An Era For a long time now I have been meaning to delete my Artstation account.

And another year bites the dust: This has not been a particularly pleasant year for many.

That time again: End of the month once again and as usual I have been lapse in my blog posting.

Lack Of Interest I haven’t posted in a while and missed June completely, I could come up with some esoteric reason but the truth is I just couldn’t be arsed.

Some virtual fruit brought back to life Some years ago, back when I still using Modo as my daily driver, what a stupid term, as my main modelling tool, that’s better, I made some fruit models.

Moving Instances For no particular reason I have decided to move Mastodon instances: from fosstodon.org to graphics.social Okay partially it was due to my posting: I tend to post 3d renders and graphics and so it felt more fitting to be on an instance that

Hugo Post after update fails After updating to HUGO version v0.146.0 I was unable to run the compilation due to template definition errors.

May Day It is the first of May or in the common parlance: May Day.

The problem The date: variable in HUGO needs to be actual, not in the past, for the post to register.

A bit of a post winter bug My little Hugo post creation app stopped working correctly this morning.

How I did it I recently wrote a Python app for creating a basic HUGO post, front matter and post.md file in content directory.

A brief recap of the week thus far: I have been busy experimenting with Blender again, this time on cosmetics and such as way to try out some different rendering environments.

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This month has been an unadulterated mess, geopolitically, but I am not here to post about that, politics are one thing I try to keep off line there is more than enough Troll fodder out there already.

I had some fun recently modelling some diverse computer components.

I started the new year playing with some image textures for my models, in particular metal and rust: Example maps used above As an example of some of the textures I made here is a Steel and Rust one used on the shader ball I made.

This year I went with a dark grey suit and hat, with the addition of a little colour in the form of the Christmas tree badge.

I haven’t posted at all this month, I have been busy though so to make it before December here is a little model I made at the end of last month: I don’t think next month will be any better, we will see…

Blender has nice newish shader node for doing Volumetric renders i.e. foggy, misty environments, called Principled Volume.

Blender Bevels come with a few options that are worth checking out before applying them.

Almost the end of the month of August and I haven’t posted anything at all.