"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."
https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html
Edit: I am not the author of this. Please go check out https://beyondloom.com/ for more of the author's work.
Stardew valley is a popular game with people in my generation. Like most video games it's a power fantasy.
In this case about growing food, having a functional "third space" in your community and fixing public transit. Pure escapism.
Also there are magic forest spirits and dungeons with monsters and treasures.
Introducing Octavo, my Mac app for turning PDFs into booklets, cleaning up bad scans, printing zines, labels, and more.
If you follow me, you may have seen my #BuildInPublic journey developing it over the last few months! It's now launched, and is available on the Mac App Store for $25 (via in app purchase so you can try before you buy).
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octavo/id6757485225?mt=12
For more info, the website has more screenshots and a copy of the user's guide: https://octavo.pro
@Daojoan The funny thing about bringing up Debian's web-of-trust is that in order to become an official Debian Developer, you used to have to meet up with another Developer *in person* to sign PGP keys. It took me almost a year to complete that step, when I lived in a podunk town without a car (I had to hitch a ride with a friend to NYC and coordinate meeting up with another DD there).
Things changed with covid: https://lwn.net/Articles/831401/. However, in The Slopocene, we may need to switch back..
We have an opening for a lecturer in programming languages: https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx
The deadline is tomorrow!
Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip
(with thanks to @JuliaRez for the original pic)