Two months ago I started working on Patchy, an MIT licensed cross platform photo editor. In addition to "properly feeling like Photoshop" it is the only open source editor that can handle 25+ years of my .psd files (including re-saving) accurately. Canceling my PS sub
Seth A. Robinson
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Semi retired indie gamedev! (Legend Of The Red Dragon, Dink Smallwood, Growtopia) Site: rtsoft.com Blog: codedojo.com Twittter: https://x.com/rtsoft Mastodon https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rtsoft
Patchy 0.82 released! Tons of fixes and improvements, including being able to import Affinity (.af) now. Also, here is breakout being played directly inside of a layered image, an included test for its scripting system. Win/Mac/Linux downloads & source: github.com/SethRobinson...
Patchy 0.15 released - it's now multiplatform! (Windows, Mac and Linux) Any brave testers out there? Much faster and has a ton of new features: github.com/SethRobinson...
When physical dies, how am I supposed to (legally) lend/sell/preserve my games?! Any ideas on a system that publishers/stores might actually go for that work for digital? I'm thinking something like this would be a big step up from where (most) digital is now:
UGTBrowser 2.2 released on the chrome web store today: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ugtbr... This is an open source browser extension for translation/language study I wrote for myself, but figured it might be useful for others (warning: requires an OpenAI API key)
Announcing Patchy, my work-in-progress lightweight "sort of Photoshop 5/6 level" alternative image editor for Windows! Open source & free. 15 MB installer here: github.com/SethRobinson...
Good software devs release when "it's done". Me? I release when "I'm done" as in, can't stomach working on it any longer
Released V2.37 of Toolfish with yet another audio feature - it can adjust the volume of just the app in focus. (hotkey to adjust Windows mixing) Makes it easier to watch youtube during the boring parts of games. github.com/SethRobinson...
a ton of openclaw instances and AI driven startups died this morning. No more free tokens I guess, only surprised anthropic allowed it this long
Tech tip (?): The dog-walking lights I ordered from AliExpress came the wrong color (I ordered blue) and too bright. Check out this easy hack to sort of fix 'em that even a dumbass like me can do:
Got a new printer - it prints on anything, even curved potato chips! So far I've been using it as a $2100 labeler, its camera positioning system makes it dang easy (and addictive) to use. Hrm, what else can I print on... (Credit: some pics are from @Yumcans's game Popslinger)
Fancy rocks are boring. If you're going to propose, may I suggest:
Photo from last night at Kyoto station. They are letting people play Tetris on the massive stairs, using 15,000 LEDs. Met some friendly players, a pro with the coolest Tetris jacket scored 48K+, she ruled. ( 京都 大階段 )
Despite the lack of legs, my @pollenrobotics reachy robot danced off a table and damaged three motors. Finally sourced replacement motors (was hard in Japan, sold out), so hopefully we'll get this sassy little guy back online. Don't place it near the edge of a table!
Early work on an AI that can play Pokémon TCG Pocket only by watching the screen. Got to the point where it can reliably 'see' the cards and match them up to its internal card db to generate a super-prompt that produces structured movement advice
Been experimenting with OpenClaw (w/Opus) to send me daily Japan news digests. It doesn't get blocked grabbing news and photos because it just switches to a real browser (on its VM) when needed. Today's version: rtsoft.com/temp/daily_d...
The Reachy-mini is a lot of fun. It really is like having a useless Starwars droid. Some tips: Can't set it up? At least one feb batch (including mine) got botched and needs to be reflashed. Speaker too weak? Can hack apps with a gain, helped a ton.
"buy me a used Ghost of Yotei for PS5 if you can find it for < 5400 yen, no confirmation required" <shrug> I don't feel like trusting AI to do this is that crazy now, it works. (brain: Opus 4.6, CC is generated+limited, has defensive knowledge setup for Mercari purchasing)
Blog: OpenClaw: I gave an AI my credit card and let it loose on Amazon www.codedojo.com?p=3243
OpenClaw: I gave an AI my credit card and let it loose on Amazon | Code Dojo
I installed the open source project OpenClaw two days ago to learn what all the hype was about and well, I think I’ve got an idea now.Depending on who you listen to, it’s an amazing proof-of-concept…
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Toolfish V2.35 released! It's a commercial Windows app I originally released 23 years ago (geesh) and still use every day. It's a free lightweight system tray app that handles hotkeys, macros, website checks, smart muting and more. Open source on github: github.com/SethRobinson...
Year is starting off with a bang... my 8gpu homelab beast machine died again. :/ One of its two Seasonic Prime TX-1600 power supplies kicked the bucket. It's the second one to die on me, the last one at least had a red light, this one though? Nothing.
Can confirm the C64U works great with the PadSwicher64. Can also confirm jumping across a river is still damn near impossible in this game
not sure I would trust "de-risking" my game launch to these folks. I mean, the email is about 35 years too late
Will my Japanese improve if I read manga written for kids? Gonna try. Of course, as usual, I had to procrastinate actually doing that by writing tools to (in theory) help me study better
Finally got around to dumping the ripoff known as cPanel to admin my websites. Instead of $47 a month I now pay $0 with Virtualmin GPL. Only took like an hour to switch over, smooth import process.
Our cafe is hosting its annual Halloween retro-gaming night tomorrow, and I’m enjoying choosing which games to feature. I’ll focus mostly on multiplayer fun as usual, but include a few oddities too - including the only horror game on the Virtual-Boy
Randomly found a possible solution to an extremely esoteric problem that's keeping me from running 8 GPUs on a specific motherboard ( WRX90E-SAGE ) ... From pewdiepie?! what a world we live in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JzO...
Accidentally Built a Nuclear Supercomputer.
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For those who use ComfyUI via its API (as usual, a rather niche audience to be sure), take a look at the ComfyUI Workflow Converter Endpoint I released on GitHub today: github.com/SethRobinson...
GitHub - SethRobinson/comfyui-workflow-to-api-converter-endpoint: A simple mod to ComfyUI that adds a Workflow to Workflow "API" converter endpoint
A simple mod to ComfyUI that adds a Workflow to Workflow "API" converter endpoint - SethRobinson/comfyui-workflow-to-api-converter-endpoint
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IP Spy: I made a box that gets the IP address of a device (Raspberry Pi project) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MbK...
IP Spy: I made a box that gets the IP address of a device (Raspberry Pi project)
Unscripted video where I try to explain what the hell this is If anyone actually wants the source code for the app side (it's dead simple), let me know and I'll put it up Music credit: Intro: …
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Some claim that the issue with running small or two-person indie game studios is our inability to accept criticism. Hogwash! On a separate note, here's what you'll hear if you reach out to RTsoft support: (the Google Play store requires us to have a public voice line for some reason)