Aligorith's Lair

Over this past week, I've been kicking the tyres on Darktable again -- partly to see if I can now make it work for me, but also partly o...

Is it just me, or do pretty much all the "Shortcut Editor" UI's in various apps suck? I don't claim to have a fully fleshe...

This morning I saw an interesting discussion where someone was asking how they should about learning to code.  This got me thinking about ho...

Here are some of my current thoughts on Rust, as initially prompted by a thread I saw this morning asking: "What features of Rust are m...

Sometimes you just cannot make these things up!  Either that, or "The Algorithms" pervading our lives these days are getting much ...

Here's the long-promised "Manifesto + Roadmap" for the future of Creative Software Tools I'd been wanting to publish since...

Automatic Graph Layout Every few years (i.e. roughly 4-6) I will often end up having some project that necessitates auto-generating a big g...

Saw an interesting link today to a blog post proclaiming that Notepad++ has been existence for 21 years now:     https://learnhub.top/celebr...

Now that my project schedule is freeing up again (and most importantly, I'm finally free of my various university contracts / commitment...

This is an abridged version of a more detailed post I'd been preparing (and subsequently never got around to finishing). As with the Wel...

At the start of this month, we headed up to Wellington for our semi-annual pilgrimage up north to check out the World of Wearable Arts show,...

Here's a roundup of musings on various issues that came up this week... (NOTE: Most of these I'm just harvesting from my Mastodon fe...