James Westman @flyingpimonster@fosstodon.org

I'm quite happy with my Youtube
Premium subscription. Instead of bombarding you with ads all the time, it uses the novel business model of paying for things you want. I love it.

I use C# at work, so I wrote a quick tutorial on setting up flatpak'ed Visual Studio Code with the C# extension: https://jwestman.net/2021/07/01/vscode-flatpak-csharp.html
#csharp #vscode #flatpak

What's your favorite (i.e. least favorite) word ads use as if it's a good thing?

Mine's got to be "patented".

nobody:

my bible study leader today: "Judas was the imposter"

There's been a lot of talk recently about #nft, #cryptocurrency and the environment, but what makes them so bad? My latest blog post explains! https://www.jwestman.net/2021/03/17/ok-but-why-is-cryptocurrency-so-inefficient.html

"sorry i'm late for class, had to do a CAPTCHA"

Huge thanks to whoever made the react-confetti package for allowing me to add the confetti and still get up in time for school this morning

Congrats to the #OpenStreetMap community! Here's to the next 100M changesets!

I got one more change in for GNOME 40: better tab completion in the file manager! It's bothered me for a while now, so I'm especially excited that I got to improve it: https://www.jwestman.net/2021/02/17/files-tab-complete.html

Huge thanks to @antoniof_gnome@twitter.com
for reviewing this just in time for the release!

A quick update to the GNOME Maps info bubbles I recently redesigned--they're now adaptive for your favorite mobile Linux device! https://www.jwestman.net/2021/02/10/gnome-maps-adaptive-place-bubbles.html

Just hit 99M... #OpenStreetMap https://osm-in-realtime.jwestman.net

Thinking about releasing a small library of RNG functions I wrote on the #GodotEngine asset library.

Quick blog post on defining GDScript properties at runtime in #godotengine

https://www.flyingpimonster.net/2020/12/27/gdscript-get-set.html

Also: Hourglass now provides beta versions of the engine. Try out 3.2.4-beta4 in just one click!

It's been just over a year... but Hourglass 0.9.1 for #godotengine has finally arrived!

It includes the brand-new, shiny UI I've been teasing for quite some time, along with Git integration and numerous bugfixes.

Download it here! https://hourglass.flyingpimonster.net

It's been a long time, but the Hourglass redesign is nearing completion! Can you spot the new feature in this screenshot? #godotengine

GNOME Maps' new place bubbles use a custom #gtk widget to display pictures at just the right size. Want to know how it works, and how to make your own?
https://www.flyingpimonster.net/2020/11/24/gtk-custom-widgets-gjs.html

I finally got around to writing a blog post about something! It's about what I've been working on for Maps in GNOME 40: https://www.flyingpimonster.net/2020/11/17/gnome-maps-place-bubble.html