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chriswood

@chriswood@mastodon.design

Contract UX + UI Designer, Researcher, and Low-code Developer.

I craft apps and websites that improve people's lives, aim to meet accessibility standards, and help organisations meet their goals.

See my portfolio site for my rates, case studies and values.

(I'm also building an open-source icon manager app on the side #IconBear)

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

Languages: English and Spanish
Pronouns: he/him
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thunderbird , (edited ) to Thunderbird
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The Thunderbird Beta channel just updated to version 126.0b1, and it brings major visual improvements to Cards View! 😍
(Shown here with all visible messages selected.)

A big round of applause to Micah and Sol from our UX team for their awesome work on this, and to our community for your valuable feedback here and on our UX mailing list (https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/ux).

chriswood ,
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@thunderbird looks great! Fantastic work to everyone involved!

gamingonlinux , to Linux
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) Beta released https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/ubuntu-2404-lts-noble-numbat-beta-released/

chriswood ,
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@gamingonlinux off-topic, but Descent 3 is open-source?! Wooh I am jumping on that straight away, childhood nostalgia there!

frameworkcomputer , to Random stuff
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The original Micron N28 flash we used in our high-speed Storage Expansion Card is end of life, so we've moved over to SK Hynix V6 flash and are calling the new cards (2nd Gen). Sustained write speeds are similar on the new 1TB, but faster on the new 250GB.

chriswood ,
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@frameworkcomputer thanks for posting this. I just bought one to keep a copy of Windows on in case I ever need it

dansup , to Random stuff
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✨ Distraction-Free Mode

Browse your @pixelfed feeds without any distractions, focus on what matters.

This is one of the many optional features coming to the new Pixelfed mobile app!

Special thanks to @mspsadmin for inspiring this feature 😊

I love feature ideas, keep them coming 🚀

chriswood ,
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@dansup @pixelfed this is great! Reminds me of Vernissage, which pulls this view off really well. No commentary, no UI, just a view to get absorbed in the photos people are sharing 👏

pixelfed , to Random stuff
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Big news for the fediverse' favourite photo sharing platform!

We've submitted our mobile app to Android + Apple App Stores!

F-Droid: https://fdroid.pixelfed.net

chriswood ,
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@pixelfed congratulations!

chriswood , to Linux
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Today I began building a native icon manager app for Linux.
On MacOS, I relied on IconJar to select icon sets that fitted different visual styles. It also gave me lightning-fast access to glyphs I would use over and over again, like arrows and chevrons.
While we have Norde Source for Linux, sadly:

chriswood OP ,
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The UI is coming along, bit by bit! Building templates is coming a bit more naturally too.

chriswood OP ,
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Today I managed to:

  • load a directory of icons into the app. Even with 2000+ icons in the grid it's not too sluggish!
  • add a right-click context menu
  • invert the icons in dark mode
  • show the details of the selected icon in the sidebar
  • get the sidebar toggle button working

Will need to pick someone's brain on why the SVGs are rendered blurry at some point. (They're in GtkImage widgets with a set pixel-size)

Demo of selecting an icon to view its details in the sidebar, and toggling between light and dark modes.

chriswood OP ,
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@ebassi Ah perfect, thank you! Will take a look at this

chriswood OP ,
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@ebassi Got it, thank you very much!
I'm writing the app in Javascript and am not familiar with C. It looks like the method gdk_paintable_snapshot is the important one, is that right? Is there any steer you could give me on how to make a snapshot from the contents of an SVG file?

fedora , to Linux
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Here's an update from the Fedora Operations Architect on how development is going, including news on Fedora 40 Beta, Fedora 41 changes, and more!
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-ops-architect-weekly-march-8th/

Aoife gave a great intro a couple of months. Learn more about her role!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToXnmlgan4E

chriswood ,
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@fedora Clicking on this link opens up a JSON inspector for me. Searching for the page via Ecosia then clicking the link to this blog post results in the same thing

chriswood ,
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@fedora seems to be working fine for me now, nevermind! Thanks for taking a look!

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