Software Development
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Gardening Taught Me How to Be a Better Programmer
The front of my house faces west, sunset, which means we get a lot of bright hot light from midday towards the early evening, irrespective of the weather. We’re just…
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A bold strategy for Australia’s digital future
This letter has been sent to leaders around the country in an effort to stoke interest in an Australian Linux project, and sparking interest in FOSS support nationally. Dear data…
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Langenium 2012-2025 Retrospective
In 2012, I was playing Eve Online and doing a Level 4 mission. It wasn’t my first one of the night, I’d been grinding trying to get extra ISK (in-game…
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Awesome new techniques for Front End Web Development in 2025
Contents: Introduction So full disclosure – none of these ideas were invented nor introduced this past year, but many of them are still relatively new and incredibly useful so we’re…
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How to implement Blender Principled BSDF Materials in Three.js (Intro)
Achieving realism in computer graphics requires a phenomenal amount of computing power. In order to reduce that workload, 3D graphics uses techniques like Physically Based Rendering (PBR), which simulates the…
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Creating The Next Generation Desktop Environment
At Open Studios we use a couple of tools that only work in Windows and so that’s our default operating system. Using Windows 11 Pro for a while now, we…
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Using a PyTorch DCGAN for Generating Unique Character and Fashion Silhouettes
As a digital artist I tend to prefer working in vector format and as such I’ve been a keen user of Adobe Illustrator and now Affinity Designer. In the course…
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Future Jobs: The Rise of Interdisciplinary Thinking
From our humble beginnings as hunter gatherers, it took us thousands of years to create words with enough meaning to define the discrete schools of thought that make up primary…
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A matter of privacy and security
Google provides free services in exchange for access to our data, which it uses for ads that fund the service. Over the years since that model was implemented we’ve seen…
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Tales from the road less travelled
Designing a games production company that can generate revenue via open source has been challenging. I’ve come across companies in my research that generate revenue from Free and Open Source…