This is a blog post about what I've been doing in 2020! There are many things.
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Introducing: An icon converter!
Click to open the tool!
I made a web-based icon converter tool! You can check it out and/or read this small post I wrote about development.
Continue readingArt [mini-]FAQ
Click for a full comic and having expectations set accordingly
With 10th month of 2020 almost over I am finally getting around to posting art as intended in last year's roundup.
Continue readingChanging window alpha in Unity3D
Notepad++: syntax highlighting for BB code
It came to my attention that no one published a user defined language mode for Notepad++ that would allow you to view BB code tags in the editor relatively comfortably, so I decided to correct that omission by publishing mine.
As far as technical details go, there isn't anything of particular complexity here - various tags are defined as delimiters and URLs use the same trick that the built-in Markdown UDL uses.
Continue readingTXR part 1 in Haxe
This is a small note that I have made a quick Haxe variant of the first part of my "small guide on writing interpreters". You can see an interactive Haxe-JS demo above, and find the Haxe source code on bitbucket.
2019 in review
I was randomly asked whether I was going to write a summary-of-the-year post or anything, and I thought "sure, why not", and proceeded to spend a day doing that.
Continue readingNotepad++: Syntax highlighting for FontForge Script
FontForge comes with two scripting systems - largely-regular Python and an unnamed scripting language that uses the extension .PE.
While the documentation advices to prefer Python scripting where possible, it is still nice to be able to read the existing PE scripts easier.
This User Defined Language for Notepad++ aids with that, adding folding and syntax highlighting for built-in functions and variables of the scripting language.
Continue readingFAQ: On name, avatar, and [other] Yal
A collection of answers on identity subjects.
Originally published in 2019, updated in 2022.
Continue readingAuto-adjusting screen area on Wacom tablets
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Script in action. See: Full-sized version; that wallpaper
If you have a display-less Wacom tablet (Wacom One/Intuos/etc.) and a large enough monitor (or monitors), mapping screen space to tablet can be a bit bothersome. But that can be fixed.
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