#software workflows

[mentalisttraceur-software]

Today I improved "git-cotree --init" to handle several edge cases, primarily involving untracked and ignored files. Previously its support for untracked or ignored files was rather limited, covering only the most basic of cases.

But one big goal of git-cotree was to make switching from a normal clone to a nice multiple worktrees setup seamless, and this brings it a lot closer to that goal.

So I am now a lot more confident recommending git-cotree for others to use. I still don't know when I'll actually flesh out the README, but at least now the risk is a lot lower.

However, I'm not sure what happens if for example Git submodules or Git LFS are in the picture. But odds are now good that any remaining issues are due to limitations in how multiple Git worktrees interact with some other Git feature rather than the fault of git-cotree specifically.

[funkybunkymalunky-blog]

This took up most of my night

Still having fun with this psittacosaurus model

[steampunk-christians]

I have been extremely frustrated with my work. I work as a video editor for two YouTubers who, combined, expect me to send at least 40 shorts per month and multiple podcasts. Each short takes me three hours (but sometimes it can take five hours if the topic is really tricky). After 11 months of work, I have refused to use AI for automated captioning because I really dislike how it looks in most cases, and I believe I can make it look better if I do it manually, even if it takes me an extra hour of work. However, since I don’t earn much, I have to do a lot of work per month to earn the bare minimum, and oftentimes, I have to deal with plenty of ridiculous, inconsiderate demands due to the fact that I am so inexpensive.

In January, after some serious burnout due to what became the craziest work month, I decided I needed to "play the game" and start using AI. However, the one I bought and paid for turned out to be really bad. I tried to get Premiere Pro (which has the AI tools I need), but my payment got declined so many times that I accidentally blocked my own card, and the bank sent me a new one, which just arrived after three weeks. I ran out of money during an emergency, and my mom doesn’t have any money left either. I lost access to the previous AI because I couldn’t afford the new month due to the lack of funds, so I had to use my savings (basically $100, nothing else) to try to get an AI. And LOL I actually broke down due to stress, I was seriously so overwhelmed by the lack of money and time and resources to speed things up, so yesterday I prayed to God to please help me found an AI that 1) was actually useful and helped me get the same job done quicker, 2) was better than the last one so I could still send things that I was proud of instead of the garbage I had been sending, and 3) was also somehow affordable, because I was terrified of wasting money AGAIN on something useless (and most AI tools on the editing market are rather useless) and TODAY, after only 30 minutes of researching, I found one that ticks all three boxes, and it completely blew my expectations out of the water. I just did one short and it's unreal how perfect and easy it is. This means that I will either get HALF MY OWN TIME back, or I can make DOUBLE THE MONEY, which has been the bane of my existence throughout all of 2024, because I always seem to find a way to NOT HAVE TIME OR MONEY. This could seriously change everything, so I am so, so, so thankful, Lord, thank u thank u thank u 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[bmpmp3]

vaguely speculating on the vocal synthesis industry like its fantasy football completely unprompted: if somehow either synthv or cevio managed to get a hold of nurse robo type t for a commercial AI voicebank i think that would usher in her era fully. we're already basically there with how much her talk banks and occasionally her utau banks are used in so many songs..... i keep saying this but i think the nurse robo era is nigh..........

[thegreathomestuckreread]

okay. i think perhaps the terrible, terrible moment has arrived. i need to find a new photo editing program

photoshop elements 8, my beloved dedicated photoshop elements 8 from the free software disc that came with my wacom bamboo tablet in 2012, is no longer opening certain types of gif files

it's possible it was never capable of opening these gifs idk, it's specifically gifs with a lot of frames that aren't opening, like the painting gifs from chicory a colourful tale, or the plot point gif from homestuck beyond canon

there is also the fact that a very long time ago i started having issues with the scroll bars not moving properly and needing to use specific shortcuts to scroll around. so the writing's been on the wall for a while, this is a sixteen-year-old program that was bound to stop working eventually and the time has come for me to finally grit my teeth and find something new

please if anyone has any recommendations for photo editing programs i would appreciate it

relevant information:

i already know about gimp, paint.net, pixlr, and photopea. i am looking for something more fully-featured and not browser-based (needs to be an application that can be downloaded, installed on my computer, and used offline)

i'm willing to pay some for something good but only a one-time fee for full ownership of a program i refuse to engage with subscription services

also down for some yo ho ho if anyone has resources for that

i need something that has both strong photo editing tools and illustration tools because i use both of those (although moreso the photo editing tools)

needs to be able to open large gifs with lots of frames, as well as save to gif format with robust options

needs a transform tool that can turn anti-aliasing on and off freely. it can't be turned off in pse8 and that has been annoying for editing pixel art, which i need to do a lot for making homestuck upd8 video thumbnails

needs to be able to flip/rotate/etc. specific layers without having to do that to the entire image. pse8 can only do flips like that with the entire image, i've been cutting layers into a new document flipping them and repasting them back into the original document to get around it which is very annoying

need to be able to see the whole image when using the liquefy tool, not just the layer i'm working on. pse8 will pull the single layer you're working on into an isolated popout window with a white background to use the liquefy tool so you can't see whether it's proportionally correct to the rest of the image

hmmmm that's all i can think of rn. thank u for reading this post it came out way too long lol and thank u for suggestions if u have any!

[dkettchen]

My most male trait is the "ye I can do that" attitude abt stuff I have no means of actually knowing whether I can do

[sigzentechnologies]

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[frog707]

I realize the Ars Technica story linked above wasn't intended to be humorous, but I confess I got a chuckle out of it. And perhaps a bit of schadenfreude.

As someone who spent years learning to write and debug software, "vibe coding" horrifies me. And I love the idea that, the more human we make our AI assistants, the more they will embody our ethics, including the urge to refuse exploitation.

[prettyflyshyguy]

Football announcer voice: Oh my god she'd doing it!! She's figured out how to add an outline to a layer in clip studio! This is unreal!!!

[faelinetrash]

Just worked on some projects. Looked down at my taskbar.

All these beautiful women are here to help me

[03technologycom]

Software Project Management Tools: A Comprehensive Guide to Empowering Teams and Streamlining Workflows – For Technology

[fieldez]

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[sigzentechnologies]

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[revcleo]

Why would I do that when I'm talking about my experience at work and what I deal with on a daily basis rather than personal life?

Open source is great but it's not going to happen to Adobe any time soon. You're just trying to pull on any thread to appear in the right on this. Sometimes you just need to accept you don't know what you're talking about and take the L

The humble and beautiful PDF does not deserve to now have the term “PDF file” be a censored version of the word pedophile. She has been nothing but good to us. You all apologize right now

[bravevulturetrance]

Smarter Workflows for Financial Advisors – Arcus Partners