Notices by Tobias Bernard (tbernard@mastodon.social), page 2

I was playing with image dithering both as an aestetic and a way to make images smaller recently, inspired by https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com and others.

These title images for the collapse blog post series were done with the following Imagemagick command:

convert image.jpg -resize 840x840 -strip -colors 4 -ordered-dither o8x8 image-dithered.png

I've finally gotten around to publishing part 4 of my series on post-collapse computing.

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/01/10/post-collapse-computing-4

While this is the end of the series it's hopefully only the beginning of a larger resilience initiative within GNOME and free software more broadly. If you're interested in working on this I'd be very happy to hear from you.

Playing with Phanpy, a fancy new Mastodon web client by @cheeaun.

https://phanpy.social

Sooo much better than the default web app, let's please all copy this layout as the new model for native apps 🙏

@scottjenson In my experience it's usually the other way around: Software starts with good/bad UX depending on whether the early contributors are good at design, and either stays bad (most common) or gets better over time.

The problem tends to be that once a bad UI is widely used, there are huge political costs to changing it, which is why it's harder to fix a well-established app than a new and relatively unknown one.