So, create
When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So, create.
why the lucky stiff
Games night
As planned, we’re having our own family Games Nights. Not every night and not as many as the kids would want to, but we have Games Night!
So far we’ve played:
- Settlers of Catan, got it as a Christmas gift.
- Splat!
- Beetle.
User Friendly
Oliver pointed to me that User Friendly, the webcomic, is now gone. I stopped reading it when it started its re-runs and then forgot about it. I didn’t even know it shut down on 2022.
A piece of the old web is gone.
Posting to WordPress
A problem I have is finding a frictionless way to post from Markdown to WordPress. Then I remember I’m a programmer. Now I have two problems.
Preach notes
Last Sunday I preached Galatians 1:16-24. Took my time to get the context right.
By the way, I now write my preach notes in Markdown and use them on the Kindle. Printing them has all the wonderful benefits of paper, but I write faster on Vim with all my snippets, filters, dictionaries and stuff. LibreOffice is a fabulous piece of software, but writing as fast as possible is the name of the game.
Artflow again
Last week I had tummy ache in the night and couldn’t sleep. While trying to cope with it, I doodled something on Artflow, an Android drawing app. I haven’t used the app for months. Strangely, I found it very easy to draw now. The problem I had with all art programs on the smartphone is the imprecision, the fact that I want to draw from here to here and the strokes goes somewhere else. But not now. What changed?
Somehow I’m now better at drawing. I got out the old stylus Thalía gifted me, had to dig it out of a drawer, but then it was enjoyable to draw.
I’m amazed. Really, what changed? It was always something imprecise and frustrating. It’s not like I’ve been using it for a week and hey, now I improved. So strange.
I’d like to pick up Colors! someday. I want to remember how the experience was. I drew a lot on that program on my old Nintendo DS Lite, a device made for gaming, not for artistic precision. And yet, there’s drawings and paintings I made that I’m proud of.
CLIP Studio Paint 1.13.1 on Linux
Installed CLIP Studio Paint 1.13.1 and the installation went without any problems with WINE Staging 7.22. It couldn’t connect to the internet for validating the license but its «offline» alternative validation worked.
But it’s not usable. CTRL+N and CTRL+Z didn’t work, I think it’s not catching those shortcuts. And my zoom in/out shortcuts work intermittently. My Wacom Intuos3 tablet worked flawlessly.
And it kept working at 70% CPU. So, not really usable. I was interested on the new features for the 3D models but looks like I’ll have to bite the bullet and learn Blender for real.