Even a Stopped Clock

For the first time ever I actually finished a monthly challenge.

Recently I've been indulging myself in pixel art again.

Been old-school-pixel-pushin' recently, for a project I'll hopefully reveal soon.

My first encounter with a digital camera was around 1996 when my university IT department acquired the Apple Quicktake 100.

While this topic isn't anything new (the asset in question is probably a decade old) I never shared a dirty little secret about some of our symbolic assets.

GNOME 41 is now UI frozen, so without spoiling the release much, I'd like to share some of the explorations that led to some of the onboarding in both app space (mostly Connections) and the new Tour.

In a versatile tool like Inkscape, there are always features that aren't for you.

One of the great attributes of SVG is that its text nature lends itself to be easily version controlled.

While I've really enjoyed the new firmware with an extra LFO on the Elektron Digitakt, I haven't posted anything because the next day recording never had the same power as when I head-banged the tune in bed the previous night (the sole reason why everythi…

When I get glimpses of the world outside of my FOSS bubble, I see all these tips and tricks articles how people can use their computers that provide something surprising or not universally known.

In an alternate universe, we still have 320x240px displays.

Another weekend arrangement made mostly in Polyend Tracker.

Having a hardware tracker seems a little odd of a choice, but a small Polish company, Polyend has really won me over.

I avoid fiddling with batteries in the house, so I soldered up a 4S Li-Ion pack in the garden and tested a high speed cruise in the usual spot.

Glad I refrained from buying the overpriced DJI Smart controller just to get video out from the fpv goggles.

Unlike application icons, the symbolic icons don't convey application identity, but rely on visual metaphor to describe an action (what a button in the UI does).

While I have a planned post about the Polyend Tracker, a marvelous music tracker in a box from Poland, I'm posting this short one about my newly found love of performing electronic music "live".

When I previously posted about the Perseverance landing, I didn't realize NASA has actually published textured models of the lander and it's cute not-so-little maritan helicopter, Ingenuity.

One of the things that came up during user testing GNOME 40 was that people went through the Tour and all the abstract(ish) UI illustrations didn't really help people orient themselves on screen.

Things are hectic and busy here on Earth.

I still can't get over the magic coming out of the minuscule sensor at night.

Sometimes you have to sit on two chairs at the same time.

We've struggled with bringing subtle animation to GNOME in the past.

While the app got some spotlight on GNOME Circle, I found it super handy to my own use that I decided to write about it here as well.

Singing praise to the most locked down device you can get is pretty dangerous for someone operating in the FOSS world.

More than 20 years ago (gee), before I dipped my toes into Free software, I was into making electronic music using the tools that were available.

In an effort to tone down my Facebook posts, I've looked into ways how to leverage the amazing Apostrophe app for writing simple markdown posts.

Yet again the iterations to produce the default and complimentary wallpapers for 3.38 generated some variants that didn't make the cut, but I'd like to share with fellow gnomies.

Over the weekend I was forced to unload all my photos from my phone due to limited storage space.

This year I haven't done any drone-related travelling.

The Revolution is Coming As you may have heard, GNOME 3.32 is going to come with a radical new icon style and new guidelines for app developers.

Ever since the dawn of times, we've been crafting pixel perfect icons, specifically adhering to the target resolution.

One of the great aspects of the Flatpak model, apart from separating apps from the OS, is that you can have multiple versions of the same app installed concurrently.

GNOME 3.28 will release with another batch of new wallpapers that only a freaction of you will ever see.

Thanks to the GNOME Foundation, a handful of designers and developers got together last week in London to refocus on the core element of the GNOME experience, the shell.

Initially I was going to do a more elaborate workflow tutorial, but time flies when you're having fun on 3.24.

I was really pleased to see Endless, the little company with big plans, initiate a GNOME Design hackfest in Rio.

GNOME's default UI typeface Cantarell gained a new maintainer, Nikolaus Waxweiler.

Part of GNOME's visual identity are the default wallpapers.

I haven't written a post in quite a while, so I decided to document my failure to come up with a viable alternative to the translatable animations we use in Getting Started documentation.

One of the major visual updates of the 3.16 release is the high contrast accessible theme.

The release of GNOME 3.14 is slowly approaching, so I stole some time from actual design work and created this little promo to show what goes into a release that probably isn't immediately obvious (and a large portion of it doesn't even make it in).

Now that the controversial 3.12 tab design has been validated by Apple, we're ready to tackle new challenges with the widgetry™.

GNOME 3.12 will feature an improved Software experience.

Someone asked me the other day if I plan to resume work on my pet project, Gorilla.

From the beatiful sights of Milford Sound we went to the Circus Town, err Queenstown.

The farm we stayed at was really close to the nice Purakaunui falls.

Since it's about 5000 pictures and 13.3GB to go through, I'll be posting my New Zealand images in batches.

From Oamaru we went to Catlins park area, which we didn't plan initially, but turned out to be one of the nicest places we visited in New Zealand.