I’ve been having fun fighting religious battles and confusing people with in-jokes at jyte.com. Other good claims:
Or just see what’s been claimed about linux in general. Yay for silly social networking sites! :)
2/3/2007
10/7/2006
art-creation pyramid scheme
Gib started a meme I think sounds like fun. If you’re one of the first 5 people who comment on this post, I’ll create an original piece of art for you, but only if you promise to offer the same deal in your own blog. (And I urge you to release it under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license while you’re at it.)
I’ll likely be using inkscape to get it done, since I need an excuse to play more with the tile cloner and tessellation filters.
7/30/2006
jabber to IRC bridge
I wrote a Jabber to IRC bridge a while back. It’s currently being used to bridge communication between the #inkscape freenode channel and the inkscape Jabber conference room. I’ve finally gotten around to cleaning up (read: getting configurable variable out of the script into a .conf file) and publishing it.
It’s a bit fragile since the POE/Jabber code seems to explode once in a while, and it doesn’t like losing connections with the Jabber server, but it works most of the time. Several people had asked me for copies of it, so there it is. Please don’t laugh at it/me too hard. Just send me lots of patches. :)
7/22/2005
open clip art is everywhere
Although I’m only a user of the Open Clip Art Library, I’m close to the people involved in it since many of them are also involved in Inkscape. As a result, I’m always on the look-out for new places where OCAL is mentioned or OCAL art is used. Today while innocently reading Groklaw’s response to Dvorak’s misunderstanding of the Creative Commons licenses, I saw OCAL mentioned as the first in a list of examples of useful CC-tagged sites. Very cool. :)
(This post, I think, has my highest ratio of links to words yet.)
2/9/2005
Inkscape released
Ah, it’s so satisfying to get a release out the door. Inkscape version 0.41 has finally been released. This time around, I was made a “Freeze Warden”, which means I have some input in the release process. (Are all the critical bugs fixed? Are the translations updated? Are the builds correct?)
Another task I kind of gave myself was packaging the Win32 binaries. That’s pretty cool, and I’m quite impressed with the NSIS package that does the bundling. I didn’t write the bundling scripts Inkscape uses, but I got to play with the NSIS compiler itself. It’s very slick, and I recommend it for anyone doing Windows installs. (And I should note that hundreds of other software packages are already using NSIS.)
One thing that Bryce Harrington has helped keep in my head during the Inkscape hard freeze was that any given release isn’t supposed to be Bug Free(tm). It’s just supposed to be a release. This is very hard for me to keep in my head, so hearing a few times during Freeze is a good thing. Bugs in the release that we know about are just “Known Problems”. They’re in the tracker, and we’ll get to them some day, but not today. It greatly relaxes me to think about it that way. The pressure to produce is relaxed, letting me actually enjoy the release process instead of worrying needlessly about all the people that will hate us because it crashes when they click like this.
1/18/2005
It just Works
There is nothing quite as satisfying as refactoring a whole mess of code, fixing up the syntax errors and warnings, running the code, and having it Just Work. (In fact, it’s even better if there aren’t any syntax errors to fix.)
This is probably Why I code. I get such satisfaction out of having code do its little dance for me. It’s like training a dog, only I don’t need treats. Why it’s satisfying, I’m still not clear on, but it just is.
1/2/2005
Inkscape icons
Today, I ended up tracking down all the unused XPM files in Inkscape. Kind cool to get everything down to just SVG files. I don’t think we’ll be able to ditch the XPMs for the mouse cursor replacements, though. Oh well.
Oops, I found another bug related to the svg: prefix addition. Just proves my metadata code is fragile. I hardened it a little more, so that should fix it for a while. :)
