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Simone

September 6, 2025

Apart from the usual new photographs that appear every now and then, I made a new puzzle game, playable on your browser: Simone.

Inkscape

June 8, 2025

Inkscape is the most well known and probably the most feauture-rich open source vector graphics editor. It initially came out in 2003 and since then it has evolved to be a very powerful and useful tool. The user interface has some quirks and it definitely is not a program you can learn in one day, but any effort you put in it pays off. I have personally used it to create icons, game graphics and even posters for printing. It is a very flexible program and can even handle multi-page documents, but it is not a replacement for a complete desktop publishing tool.

Sigal-static gallery generator

May 24, 2025

When I decided to redesign this site, I looked for a static gallery generator. I wanted an easy to use tool, that allows me to organize my photos in a folder, extract / display exif information, and allows some kind of customization or theming. I ended up picking Sigal: it's an open-source tool written in Python, with built-in themes and provision for adding ones own themes, it creates nice looking galleries, allows adding metadata to be displayed along with the images, and generally it got the job done better than the other tools I tried. Development doesn't seem that active (my pull request hasn't been reviewed for over a month now), but what is already there is very useful.