So, it’s happened, and project is done now. It was a wonderful year, thanks everyone! Now I’m looking for a new position, so here are few facts about me:
Nice reading, into bookmarks: that’s something I will need to implement one day. https://nex3.medium.com/pubgrub-2fb6470504f
The history of USSR’s Intel 8080 clone:
https://www.open3d.org/docs/release/introduction.html Was looking around for new 3D Gaussian Splats library and found this one, looks like it’s another swiss-army-3d-knife library like OpenMesh, and even with Python bindings.
Conda is not the fastest beast in the Zoo, so looks like we’ve got something better now: Mamba. Conda replacement written in C++. And they have a PyPy installer as well!https://pythonspeed.com/articles/faster-conda-install/
Started to revive one my old Python extension projects recently: adding setup.py installation with CMake/Vcpkg based build, adding more libraries like OIIO, OCIO to go full throttle with image I/O and color spaces, adding OpenVDB to reimplement my old vdbtool (images to OpenVDB volume stacker) and finally adding Qt6 (since I wanted to try that...
First of all, what is that “Side-by-side”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-by-side_assembly Now, once in a while people see “Side-by-Side configuration is incorrect” errors in Windows out of nowhere. It means that files mirroring mechanism (C:\Windows\WinSXS) is broken, corrupted or such. Most of internet gurus provide the “ubersolution” to just reinstall Windows. What if you can’t or just don’t...
Few reason on why you really should not use shell scripts: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/shell-scripts/ And 2nd link to a package allowing you to use shell scripts goodies directly from Python (cross-platform!): https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Modern terminal, cool looking MS “Windows Terminal” (wt) alternative: https://tabby.sh/ State of windows terminals can be described with one single word: “Disaster”, especially taking into account I’m using Far Manager left and right. Tabby looks like a pretty slick pice of software. Worth to try at the very least.