Week highlights: new @LibrePCB release, @GIMP 3.0rc2 is being delayed, @FreeCAD team is hacking tirelessly at the next version, @OpenSCAD team makes more integrations. More on that:
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Weekly recap β€” 1 December 2024
New LibrePCB release, GIMP 3.0rc2 is being delayed, new great features are coming to FreeCAD
 Featured #b3d art by Mukitul Islam image
Week highlights: @GIMP 3.0rc1 and Annotator 2.0 released, DIGImend’s developer resigns, @Blender Studio publishes the Project Gold showcase More on that:
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Weekly recap β€” 10 November 2024
First release candidate of GIMP 3.0 is out; DIGImend’s developer resigns
 Featured #b3d artwork by Abraham Joshua image
So there's a certain guy on YT who was recently talking about using unfair advantages to your benefit. And his example of one was... someone who was into fashion, spent thousands of hours doing research and only then thought she should launch a YT channel. If that is an unfair advantage, then the question is what kind of person one has to be to think that benefitting from long-term results of honest work is unfair.
@Friction how hard would it be to add GIF exporting? (I know, I know :))
Week highlights: Ondsel is shutting down; new releases of Audacity, Shotcut , fudge, qpwgraph, Qtractor; videos from KiCon Europe 2024; FreeCAD news See here for more:
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Weekly recap β€” 3 November 2024
FreeCAD is getting closer to v1.0 but Ondsel is shutting down
 Featured #b3d artwork by ZiYuan Wang image
It's been over two years since the initial release of the CLAP API for making audio effects and virtual instruments. Has the project been successful? Let's find out!
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CLever Audio Plugin API two years later
Let’s take a look at the evolution of the project and its adoption by developers of DAWs and plugins alike.
Ondsel is shutting down its operation. The company couldn't find a product-market fit before it ran out of funding. Most team members, including myself, are likely to continue contributing to @FreeCAD in some way.
We are shutting down Ondsel | Ondsel
After operating for almost two years, Ondsel has made the difficult decision to cease operations and close down.
It's time to admit it: noone is really going to work on Fontmatrix anymore. Pierre went AWOL over a decade ago, and I'm not even a developer. So I've just archived it on GitHub.
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GitHub - fontmatrix/fontmatrix: Free font collections manager for Linux, Mac and Windows
Free font collections manager for Linux, Mac and Windows - fontmatrix/fontmatrix
Well, well, well, what is it? :)
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Weekly recap β€” 22 October 2024
New releases of Inkscape, Friction, and Ardour, update on GIMP and FreeCAD