dr. Sybren

Version v1.5 of Skyfill has been released.

Many systems like Discord, Matrix, Blender Chat, Stack Exchange, Discourse, Slack, etc. use MarkDown for their markup.

This release of Beat Stripper is compatible with the newly released Beat Saber 1.15, the three-year celebratory release.

Update (2025-05-15): Nowadays I would recommend PlatformIO when writing software for the ATmega328PB microcontroller.

This release of Beat Stripper is compatible with the newly released Beat Saber 1.14 (new OST, yay!).

This release of Beat Stripper is compatible with the newly released Beat Saber 1.13.4.

Beat Savior is a great site to download custom Beat Saber maps, most of all because you can watch a preview of the level on their website.

This release of Beat Stripper fixes an issue with including Solo scores in Beat Saber’s Party Mode leaderboards, and adds experimental support for Linux.

Include your Solo scores in Beat Saber’s Party Mode leaderboards.

Beat Saber is a great party game, but I have one gripe with the way it handles party high scores.

MyPy is a fantastic tool to do static checks of Python code.

The final release of Python-RSA v4.7 can be obtained from the Python Package Index, or just installed with pip install --upgrade rsa.

As core developer of Blender I often review patches from colleagues and other contributors.

My work on Blender mostly involves the Animation & Rigging module.

Beat Savior is a great site to download custom Beat Saber maps, most of all because you can watch a preview of the level on their website.

UPDATE: I’ve made an online version of the script too.

Blender developers use Phabricator to track tasks, bug reports, and patches.

Blender developers use Phabricator to track tasks, bug reports, and patches.

Version v1.2 of Skyfill has been released.

During the Corona lockdown, I’ve been extending my Python training series Scripting for Artists with a bunch of free chapters.

Check this panorama photo on stuvelfoto.nl to see it in its full splendor.

A while (read: over 4 years) ago I moved from Bash to ZSH, and never looked back.

For debugging Blender I have set up my IDE Visual Studio Code such that it builds Blender whenever I start the debugger.

The Simple Amp I built an amplifier!

Sometimes people want to know how I create my spherical drone panoramas.

Blablabla ESP32.

This page describes my workflow for spherical panoramas made with my drone.

This is a tool that I worked on back in 2006.

For a long time I’ve been making miniature planets.

Recently I have been working on a new Alembic exporter, in such a way that both Universal Scene Description (USD) and Alembic can be exported using the same code base.

On Blender Cloud, there are of course lots of Blender tutorials.

The final release of Python-RSA v4.6 can be obtained from the Python Package Index, or just installed with pip install --upgrade rsa.

Today I launched my new website, with a new look and underlying tech, but all the old content.

Theses Doctor of Philosophy Sybren A.

Last year we went on holiday to Slovenia & Croatia (mentioned here in chronological order of visiting) and made a set of 360°x180° panorama photos.

Version v1.1 of Skyfill has been released.

Most drones (UAVs) cannot look straight up to photograph the sky above them.

To properly see a video recorded with a DJI Mavic 2 Pro in D-log colours, it needs conversion.

After over two years of silence, Python-RSA 4.0 has been released!

While I’m doing web development I want to have an email server that ensures that all mail will end up in my mailbox.

A new version of the Python FlickrAPI has been released.

BConf 2016 was awesome, as ever.

Yesterday I obtained my PhD degree in Computer Science at the Universiteit Utrecht, on the subject of the simulation of dense crowds.

Python-RSA 3.4 has been released!

My last name is a technical hurdle.

You won’t notice it, but you’re now on my new website.

This article was originally written in October 2006, and has been subsequently updated.

Python FlickrAPI library version 2.0 has been released, and can be downloaded from the Python Package Index with more info at my FlickrAPI page.

UPDATE 2019: The panoramas are currently broken, I’ll get around to fix it some time in the future.

My favourite password management tool, pwsafe, is getting old.