EyeballKid

"The importance of Exuberance in User Experience" (Site seems to be down right now, but the wayback machine has it) https://web.archive.org/web/20160611170615/http://designblog...

I use https://www.mingw-w64.org for the windows build - which makes it nice and easy to get the compiler and dependencies installed (Qt, libpng, libjpeg, giflib). Once you've got the dependencies set up it Just Works (tm), on Linux, Windows and Mac (although I don't have a mac to build/test on these days).

You can tell it's a really professional project because I wrote a press release for the last version:

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

2022-12-13 / SCUMWAYS TOP SECRET VOLCANO LAIR

Art World Rocked by Amazing New EvilPixie Release

New version features vibrant, brand new pixels.

Scumways Corp. today announced a new release of it's legendary pixel-editing application EvilPixie.

The new '0.3 "Your in test" TCE Shanghai Gutter' release is a revolutionary new development providing an experience unlike any other pixel art package in the history of pixel art packages[1].

With a huge established audience of dedicated fans[2], this new release promises to take the industry by storm.

Scumways Corp. spokesman Brian Credibility today said "Our studies show that this new release provides 754.1% more synergy than the next leading brand. The clients we've been working rave about increased pixel yields, and love the enterprise-wide approach to the unique value proposition when integrated into quadruple-A next-generation middle-out distributed landscape personal environment cloud-based network-enabled local client ecosystems."

Via séance, notable artists have also given their unanimous endorsement:

    "I'll definitely be using this to demonstrate Commodore's next computer." - Spirit of Andy Warhol
    "Questa fantastica app sono i fottuti testicoli del cane!" - Spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci
    "Se ve un poco raro" - Spirit of Salvador Dali

https://github.com/bcampbell/evilpixie/releases

[1] Except Deluxe Paint, which it apes shamelessly, down to the keyboard shortcuts. And all the Dpaint clones, of course. And asesprite. And ProMotion. And all the other pixelart apps. But other than that, there's _nothing_ like it out there!

[2] The programmer and his 11-year old daughter, who use it occasionally.

Homepage: http://scumways.com Github: https://github.com/bcampbell

Background in games development, but most recently been working as the resident coder at the Media Standards Trust (http://mediastandardstrust.org), trying to foster improved standards of Journalism :-)

Fluent in web development, but retain a distinct scepticism about the current javascript-required-absolutely-everywhere trend.

If you've got any Commodore 64 coding you need done, I'm definitely interested :-)

http://evilpixie.scumways.com/

(the most up-to-date code is the 'rgba' branch in github: https://github.com/bcampbell/evilpixie/tree/rgba )

http://unsourced.org/blog/illicit-sex-and-free-advertising.h...

Oh yes, loads of them. Lots more than use m/d/y anyway. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

Canada looks the most hellish, eg: "Immigration Canada Stamps use DD/MM/YYYY and Canada Customs Stamps use MM/DD/YYYY." eek!

I wrote it to parse dates and times in news articles and blog posts. Still a work-in-progress, but someone might find it useful!

I've been working on some projects along similar lines. First one is http://churnalism.com/extension

Browser extensions which check news articles against a central database of press releases, and can highlight shared text. Disclaimers: It's pretty UK-centric and I think the infrastructure needs a lot more work. I'm somewhat hesitant to expose it to HN at all... but hey :-)

There is also http://unsourced.org, which lets you attach warning labels onto news articles. There's a browser extension for that too, but the whole project is pretty quiescent right now while I work on other things. But I've got a lot of plans for both these projects...

Not one of mine, but for a more US-oriented tool, also check out: http://churnalism.sunlightfoundation.com/ (again a website + browser extension combo)