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Et tu, Cthulhu

Personal blag of Hans Petter Jansson: Fun with computers edition

    Chafa 1.14: All-singing, all-dancing

    On January 18, 2024 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing

    Dear friends, comrades, partners in crime and moderate profit! I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Chafa 1.14.0.

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    Balance of Power: A rematch served cold

    On November 1, 2022 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, Technical

    A happy reunion with Chris Crawford's hit geopolitics simulator Balance of Power (1985), with gameplay and code analysis.

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    Adventure game graphics with DALL-E 2

    On August 16, 2022 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing

    Is DALL-E 2 fit for use in creative work? A case study involving pixel graphics for a point-and-click adventure game.

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    GNOME at 25: A health checkup

    On July 23, 2022 By Hans Petter Jansson In Uncategorized

    Around the end of 2020, I looked at GNOME's commit history as a proxy for the project's overall health. A year and a half went by since then, and it's time for an update.

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    A quick textmode-themed update

    On June 9, 2022 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing

    Summer is coming and I've got a couple of posts cooking that may turn out mildly interesting, but — time constraints being what they are — in the meantime there's this.

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    Let it snow '21

    On December 21, 2021 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, Life, Technical

    Amidst the holidays that perhaps aren't turning out exactly as hoped, one can take comfort in small tokens of continuity – like the fact that xsnow is still being actively maintained.

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    Chafa 1.8: Terminal graphics with a side of everything

    On September 16, 2021 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, Technical

    The Chafa changelog was growing long again, owing to about half a year's worth of slow accretion. Hence, a release. Here's some stuff that happened.

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    Chafa 1.6.0: Wider

    On January 18, 2021 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, Technical

    Here's another one from the terminal graphics extravaganza dept: Chafa 1.6.0 brings fullwidth character support, so in addition to the usual block elements and ASCII art, you now get some mean CJK art too. Or grab as many fonts as you can and combine all of the Unicode into one big glorious mess.

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    On the Graying of GNOME

    On December 16, 2020 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, GNOME

    The GNOME project turned 23 this year, and despite equally persistent rumors to the contrary, it's still alive and kicking. Just how alive, though?

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    Chafa 1.4.0: Now with sixels

    On April 1, 2020 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, Technical

    April 1st seems like as good a time as any for a new Chafa release — though note that Chafa is no joke. At least not anymore, what with the extremely enterprise-ready sixel pipeline and all. As usual, you can …

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