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tarball··on Commodore Releases Flip Phone
Go buy a TTfone tt970, you will save ~300€.
tarball··on Ardour 9.0
Ardour is very good and needs more attentions. My respects to the developers, I use it every day, and I am very happy with it and its community. I also like the paying / open source model, and I wouldn’t change it for a proprietary DAW 99% of the musicians use.
tarball··on Processwire Open Source CMS
I use that CMS since 5 years after a Wordpress burnout, and it has been a very joy to learn and use that CMS. The many websites I developed with Processwire are still in good shape today, and my clients usually find it very simple to use.
tarball··on A symbol for the Fediverse
https://codeberg.org/fediverse-symbol/fediverse-symbol#readm...
tarball··on A symbol for the Fediverse
That’s the point. ⁂ is not a logo because the fediverse is neither a brand nor a product.
tarball··on A symbol for the Fediverse
You know all those icons because someone, some industry or some culture imposed it to you. Nothing is self-evident. We are constantly learning new symbols to be able to share graphic languages with other persons or interfaces.
tarball··on Not by AI
A similar project https://ai-label.org/
tarball··on Inkscape 1.2 released
I am a daily user of Inkscape and I love this software. Thank you for that version, snapping and multiple pages are incredibly helpful. Earlier in the day, I was about to download a suspicious add-on to batch export images, what a pleasure to find this option in this new version!
tarball··on Cascade: CSS to sound live coding system
No problem for being blasé, we’re surrounded by highdef visuals and sounds. I understand it’s hard to scale back to minimal stuff. And yes the visuals are very dry because it’s actual music notation, everything you see is used to write the music, there is no decoration. The (live)code part is not visible on videos I shared because it happens within the web dev console, see https://peertube.swrs.net/videos/watch/5d84ea32-18d8-454d-b2...
tarball··on Cascade: CSS to sound live coding system
Initiator of the project here. Let me add a bit of context: The goal of cascade is to explore and map graphic possibilities offered by the DOM and CSS to sound (positions, nesting, animation, dev tools editing…). That explains the weird results, it is an experimental project mixing live-coding, sound notation and love for web standards, that will never sound like commercial music, as the limitations are important and fundamental to the exploration. This video shows several demos, illustrating my point : https://peertube.swrs.net/videos/watch/33e7c76d-775f-4e1b-88...
tarball··on I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub
I made a quick font previewer http://stolon.raphaelbastide.com/stems/demoscene-fonts/index...
tarball··on Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
I made one web artwork a day during 35 days. https://evasive.tech/ It was exhausting. It had an article in a national newspaper and it is now being exhibited in net art online exhibitions.
tarball··on Mutant garden (cartesian genetic programming)
To fully appreciate this work, take some time to visit the artist’s practice on his website. https://harmvandendorpel.com/
tarball··on This JPEG is also a webpage
Here is a similar experimental project I made, between image and web page : http://raphaelbastide.com/guropoli/
tarball··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
I design logos for Bitcoins. Designing a graphic identity can take me weeks, but this particular project is for me an experiment. The logos I design are quickly made: it takes usually 1 to 2 hour per logo. They are totally adapted to the (really) small brief I receive by mail, from total strangers. My clients usually want something smart, quickly. The small economy of those projects are for me interesting and inspiring design constraints. I use only open source fonts. Sometimes, I draw the typeface myself when I feel inspired.

Total income this year: about 5 Bitcoins http://ecogex.com/logos/

tarball··on Void – A website creation tool
Similar project, ideal for image-based paginated content: https://github.com/lisezmoi/lightbulb Demo: http://catgifpage.com/
tarball··on Show HN: Custom New Tab page for Firefox
Inspiring! Here is mine: http://i.imgur.com/HICxcIs.png
tarball··on Inkscape 0.91 release
I am graphic designer, Inkscape made me realize that Free software could be also for designers. Now I work exclusively with F/loss on linux. I use Inkscape every day and I am really happy to see this release.
tarball··on Show HN: Use email subject lines to save personal stats and chart them
Well, it doesn’t work for me and I am sad. Now you probably know my falling hair chart and I don’t.
tarball··on Poetica
It reminds me of brackets notation, a plain-text compatible way to correct: https://github.com/raphaelbastide/brackets-notation
tarball··on Bitcoin-only art platform: Cointemporary
I like this idea a lot.
tarball··on Bitcoin sign rejected by the Unicode Consortium (2011)
Full citation:

Action item for Rick McGowan: Respond to the author of L2/11-129 that the use of the bitcoin symbol in (running) text has not been demonstrated. There may also be IP issues because bitcoin.org is using the symbol as a logo.

tarball··on Bitcoin deserves the right symbol
Archive of the first version of this manifesto

https://web.archive.org/web/20131031203409/http://www.ecogex...

tarball··on Bitcoin deserves the right symbol
USD is different from $, EUR is different from €…
tarball··on Your best passive income? (2014)
At first I started with a Blogspot with a bunch of cat gifs and a couple of Google ads. Once I earned enough money to buy a domain name for this project, I bought http://catgifpage.com and designed a cheap-but-fun interface for the visitors I targeted.

As I am more a “dog” person, I decided one year (and about 1000€) later to open http://doggifpage.com. It increased a bit my incomes but not so much. As you may know, the Internet loves cats, cats and cats! In 2013, I earned almost 4000€ for about 10 fun hours of gif gathering!

I have some plans for 2014 but I want to keep this project fun and certainly not time-consuming.

tarball··on Ghost 0.3 (Kerouac) Launches
Come on guys, this is just money an promesses right now. Mini Mozilla seriously…