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Free Mercurial hosting for open source projects on GitLab fork Heptapod

The Trosnoth source code has been kept in a Mercurial repository on BitBucket since not long after we migrated from Subversion many years ago. But BitBucket no longer supports Mercurial repositories: all existing Mercurial repositories on BitBucket will be shut … Continue reading

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Timelapse Trosnoth Development Video

Sometimes an artist in residence program has a closing exhibition. In October 2018 I was pygame.org’s virtual artist in residence. As a kind of closing exhibition for this artist residency, I’ve put together a time-lapse video of most of my … Continue reading

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Software Spotlight: Hugin

The image above is a composite image, made from 40 photos I took this weekend. I stitched them together using the open source software, Hugin. Hugin is a brilliant piece of software. I went and sat in a park and … Continue reading

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Issue Tracker Gamification

I’ve been playing with habitrpg, which gamifies habit-setting. You have a little character with experience points, hit points and gold pieces. You earn experience and gold for achieving your habit goals. You lose hit points for failing to achieve goals. … Continue reading

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A Whole New Language

I like to dream. Occasionally I dream about what the ideal programming language would look like. Yes, I know, writing a new programming language would involve all sorts of hurdles like convincing people to adopt it, building a community around … Continue reading

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