Clik here to view.
I’m going to Vienna as well!
We’ve already got Valorie here in Deventer, and next week we’ll take the slow train, the international train and then the ICE to Vienna, to attend Akademy. Last time Irina and I attended Akademy was in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Akademy 2018 – Vienna
The last Akademy I attended was in 2015, in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. I skived off Berlin 2016, when I was burned out working as a consultant at Quby, and again Almería 2017, when I was struggling with...
View ArticleMuseum Day, or, the Benefit of Skiving Off
Tomorrow, there’s the fund raiser training session. Given that we’ve been raising funds for Krita since time immemorial (our first fund raiser was for two Wacom tablets and art pens so we could...
View ArticleAnd we’re almost home…
We left really early this morning on the trains to Würzburg, Hannover, Deventer. I was pretty smart, if I may say so, because I gave ourselves half an hour or more time to change trains. Deutsche Bahn...
View ArticleToying with iOS
So, two years ago I thought porting Krita to iOS or Android might make a dandy research project. A bit of context: if I spend 500 hours a year on an approved R&D project, I get a tax break. Plus, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letter From Nanette — Or How Brexit Came Home
Just back from Fosdem, where thousands of people from all over the world came together to celebrate Free Software and to work together towards one goal, I found a letter from the Dutch Customs Office...
View ArticleKDE Onboarding Sprint Report
These are my notes from the onboarding sprint. I had to miss the evenings, because I’m not very fit at the moment, so this is just my impression from the days I was able to be around, and from what...
View ArticleDistributed Beta Testing Platforms
Do they exist? Especially as free software? I don’t actually know, but I’ve never seen a free software project use something like what I’ve got in mind. That would be: a website where we could add any...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Back from the Blender Conference 2019
Yesterday, me, Dmitry, Wolthera and Agata visited BlenderCon 2019. Intel had asked us to come to the conference to help set up the Intel/Acer booth, which was showing off Krita in all its HDR glory....
View ArticleLooking in or looking out?
In my previous blog post, I mentioned that being part of the wider Free Software community can be a drag on a project. In this post, I want to put that in perspective. Elaborate a bit, if you will. For...
View ArticleProfessional Free Software
At the 2019 Libre Graphics Meeting, illustrator Livio Fania presented a heart-felt plea for more professionalism in libre graphics. And that was the moment I began to think a bit. What is it that makes...
View ArticleFail! No Linux App Summit for me.
Fail… I was going to attend the Linux App Summit, and even going to speak, about Krita and what happens to a an open source project when it starts growing a lot. And what that would mean for the Linux...
View ArticleWhy we shouldn’t blame ourselves for the Linux desktop’s microscopic marketshare
Well, that was three interesting articles on the same topic on the same day, namely, billionaires. And read in turn they explain exactly why the Linux Desktop is still at such a marginal market share,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mixing Green
For my own reference: Palette with greens Counter-clockwise outside: Mix of Titanium and Zinc White Burnt Sienna (to work as red) Ultramarine Phtalo Blue Permanent Yellow with Phtalo Blue Cobalt Blue...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I’m on vacation…
I started feeling really tired in November, and then I realized I hadn’t taken much time off this year — a couple of days at the sea-side was most of it. So I thought it was time to do something else...
View ArticleAbout “Qt offering changes 2020”
When I read “Qt offering changes 2020” yesterday, my first reaction was to write a pissy blog post. I’m still writing a blog post with my thoughts about the changes, but I’ll be nice. There are three...
View ArticlePython 3.8 woes
I’m not as deep into Python these days as I was twenty years ago. Twenty years ago, Python was small language with clear documentation and clear, consistent ways of doing things. One thing was hard,...
View ArticleA Tale of Four Laptops, or, How Lenovo’s Digital River Customer Support Sucks
In September, I made a mistake… We needed new laptops for Dmitry and Agata, and after much deliberation, we decided upon Lenovo Yoga C940’s. These are very cool devices, with HDR screens, nice...
View ArticleThe Power of Blogging
In my last post, I related the tale of how I had spent three months trying to return to laptops to Lenovo that I had mistakenly ordered... I thought it would only be friendly to mail Lenovo’s customer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cherries, or does the brand make a difference, when it comes to oilpaint
Last summer, when everything was still normal, I wanted to do some painting again after a hiatus of 15 years. (During which I did a lot of sculpture, but I hurt one of my fingers and the scar tissue...
View Article
