Stuff I’ve Read #10

Sat 08 April 2023, tagged: Read

Stuff that I have found interesting over a few weeks of avoiding work.

Dev

Pallets

The Pallets Projects are a collection of Python web development libraries that are associated with the Flask microframework…

https://palletsprojects.com/

Nice.GUI

They’ve added a native=True option to the app class that means the GUI no longer needs a users Web Browser. This is nice.

https://nicegui.io/

DearPyGUI

The continued domination of DearImGUI.

https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui/

ArgBash

Generate the code to parse args for bash

https://argbash.dev/

C Style Coroutine Library

https://github.com/Keith-Cancel/Bunki

C Template Library

More #defines for the win?

https://github.com/glouw/ctl/

ttkBootstrap

Theme for ttk making it look a little bit like bootstrap. Nice.

https://github.com/israel-dryer/ttkbootstrap

NESFab

Programming language for making games on the NES

https://pubby.games/nesfab.html

Tech

FreeBSD Pot, a rival to Docker?

Looks nice.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/freebsd-pot-vs-docker-technical-comparison-daniel-garcia-cr0hn-/

Lovely water in a GLSL shader

https://twitter.com/zozuar/status/1632160439944478721

So powerful it’s kind of Ridiculous

About the 3DFX cards. I did not know about the Sega DreamCast angle.

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/so-powerful-its-kind-of-ridiculous

Human

Illustrations of hidden trains

Love these pictures. Very nice.

https://www.spoon-tamago.com/toei-project-unseen-maintenance-trains/

Software

Gaea Terrain Design Application

https://quadspinner.com/

Tabby: A Terminal For The Modern Age

https://tabby.sh/

Getting secret colors in the C64

I did not think to do this. I am an idiot.

https://www.aaronbell.com/secret-colours-of-the-commodore-64/

OpenHV

Nice little open 2D RTS game. Old school gameplay. Nice.

https://openhv.itch.io/openhv

Vector Styler

An impressive replacement for Adobe Illustrator but without the subscription model.

https://www.vectorstyler.com/

Susan Kare demonstrating Macintosh in 1984

This is gold. Kare is a legend and I fear her whole attitude to computing and the user experience has been lost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWOtf4Ziso

EOL