Pat David

As part of my work infrastructure I run an instance of the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) as a data center.

I was fiddling with some site designs recently where I wanted to use an HTML <figure> tag and to include a <figcaption> with it where the <figcaption> text wouldn’t grow past the width of my image.

I was recently put in charge of some (Microsoft SQL) databases for monitoring meteorological (and hydrological) data down here in Mobile Bay.

After spending the last 20 years (!)

I got a new job (more on that later)!

I finally got around to updating this site to use my static site geneator of choice these days, Hugo!

Over a year ago my friend (and fellow GIMPer) Alexandre Prokoudine asked me if I’d be willing to help him build a new site for a transition of Libre Graphics World to something broader in scope that he was calling Libre Arts.

Last weekend I was honored to be a guest on the Open Source Creative podcast with the one and only Jason van Gumster!

I’ve been meaning to write up something more comprehensive about the Free Software tools I use daily to help me work remotely or with distributed teams.

“We are not superstitious in our profession, sir,” replied the doctor, “but the sea makes people so.”

This is a story whose fame precedes it, I believe.

This is a quite short story by Richard Middleton that I love for its simplicity and brevity.

A little too late I realized that it might be fun to do a daily post of my favorite short ghost stories through October (to honor my favorite month and holiday!).

There’s no shortage of posts and news items that tout the benefits of keeping a journal.

Just over a year ago I started a redesign and rebuild effort for my friends over at https://www.rawtherapee.com.

Blackjack.

tl;dr - To speed up loading a large HTML table on the client, start with the table CSS set to display: none;.

I’m really looking forward to the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting in Saarbrücken, Germany next year!

Being a part of a community of smart folks means that inevitably there will be personality clashes.

Demon: What an excellent day for an exorcism.

Unless you know me well personally, you may not realize that I’m a nerd for ghost stories.

With deference to Dieter Rams (and courtesy of Vitsoe), his 10 principles for good design.

Much to the chagrin of my friend darix, I run an Ubuntu server at home for various things like Nextcloud and Plex.

I was outlining some ideas for an article I want to write concerning online privacy and connections to the recent Facebook fiasco.

I got the bug recently to finally do something that’s been annoying me for some time: set up a dark theme for this website that is user selectable and that will persist.

This post is a little more esoteric, but in the spirit of helping others from the future we’re gonna dive into this.

If you can keep your head when all about you  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,  But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,  Or being lied about, don’t d…

The virtue of being forgetful I suck at passwords.

I finally got around to setting up my own Nextcloud!

Writing is hard.

Happy New Year!

So, I’m on Mastodon.

I updated some old GPG keys last year after using the same 1024-bit RSA key from 2004.

My wife needed a headshot recently for a work related thing.

Comments were something that I wanted to include on posts from the beginning for PIXLS.US.

Yes, yes - Static Site Generators are all the rage these days.

I’ve always had a sensitivity to light.

The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is the annual meeting for creatives from across the Free/Libre project spectrum.

The Bus Factor for a project is usually defined as the minimum number of team members that would have to disappear (get hit by a bus) for a project to stall due to lack of knowledgeable people.

When we built the new website for www.gimp.org we moved from a homegrown build system to using Pelican, a Python based Static Site Generator.

Jehan Pagès recently published his interview with GIMP maintainer, mitch.

It’s About Time For almost a decade I had been using blogger to host my personal website.

A little while back I had a big streak of averaging anything I could get my hands on.

What’s been going on?!

I checked the first post I had made on PIXLS.US while I was building it, and it appears it was around the end of August, 2014.

David Tschumperlé has a blog over at OpenSource.graphics and it appears that after releasing G’MIC 1.6.2.0 he had some time to write down and share some thoughts about the last 10 months of working on G’MIC.

After a bunch of hard work by someone not me (darix), there’s finally a neat solution for commenting on PIXLS.US.

Anyone who has been reading here for a little bit knows that I tend to spend most of my skin retouching time with wavelet scales.

This is old news but I just realized that I hadn’t really addressed it before.

Photographer Ian Hex was kind enough to be a guest writer over on PIXLS.US with a fantastic tutorial on creating and using Luminosity Masks in the raw processing software darktable.