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cassidy

@cassidy@blaede.family

Building useful, usable, delightful products that respect privacy.

:eos: Partner success at https://floss.social/@EndlessOS Foundation
:gnome: @gnome Foundation member
:flathub: https://floss.social/@flathub contributor

Previously: co-founder and CXO at elementary OS, UX architect at System76.

Frequently posting about #OpenSource, specifically in #GNOME and #Flatpak realms. I also enjoy #StarWars, #LEGO, #3DPrinting, and #SmartHome.

I have a background in UX architecture, open source, product design, & communication.

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jonhicks, (edited ) to random
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It's inevitable that throughout my career, I've watched as my work gets replaced and updated by others. It's rare to be asked to redesign old work, which is why I leapt at the chance when @thunderbird asked if I could design a contemporary update to the Thunderbird logo. The one I designed 19 years ago!

I’ll do a proper blog post soon, but for now you can read more here:
https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/planning/T78a50846b554d0b4

cassidy,
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@jonhicks @thunderbird this is so good! I love how it evokes the Firefox logo/icon and has been well-considered across platforms.

paul, to random
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Dell's half price Pro Display XDR is live, even comes with a free stand. I do like HDR, I don't $2500 like HDR.
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-32-6k-monitor-u3224kb/apd/210-bhbz/monitors-monitor-accessories

cassidy,
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@paul it does pass my sniff test for a good size and resolution combination, at least? https://cassidyjames.com/dippi/?d=32&w=6144&h=3456&t=d

mattblaze, to random
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Maybe firing everyone who knew how Twitter works wasn't such a good idea after all.

cassidy,
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@mattblaze https://mastodon.blaede.family/@cassidy/110426805473934977

popey, (edited ) to random
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When making scrambled eggs, a splash of milk in the mixture is…

cassidy,
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@popey my parents did this, but I've never really felt the need to. 🤷

popey, to linux
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A link doing the rounds, trying to petition to take ownership of the package for . In my opinion, they really shouldn't have used the "2 million downloads" number, because the vast majority of those are delta updates from the same people who already have it installed. There's ~110K machines with the Spotify Flatpak installed. They should have used that number, as it's more genuine. Also, they should speak to humans at Spotify, not use petitions. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Idea-Submissions/Spotify-should-take-official-ownership-of-the-Linux-Flatpak/idi-p/5578184

cassidy,
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@popey this is why we need a Flatpak/Flathub developer advocate… I don't have the time to do it all day long, but I'd love to chat with the folks in charge about these sorts of decisions.

cassidy, to ai
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I get that it’s hot right now, but man, the user experience of LLMs being this bot you type text to seems like a huge step backwards compared to just integrating these AI features natively into products.

cassidy,
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Lock screen clock stuff looks straight from iOS. I am still surprised Apple did this first.

cassidy,
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Yessss finally an actual privacy preserving device finding network that’s useful outside of just iPhones or Tile app users. That’s gonna be dope.

cassidy,
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Google just sherlocked https://emoji.supply/wallpaper

danarel, to random

I’m about to hit 45lbs lost since I decided around Christmas that I was going to get more serious. (The weight loss really started before that, but in December I decided I was ready to go all in. I’m 2-3 pounds away from what my “ideal weight” should be, but that’s never been my goal. I’m just focused on being healthy, feeling good, and being happy.

cassidy,
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@danarel thanks! The meal tracking is what has been SO hard for me because I get too caught up in the specifics and when you eat a lot of homemade food, I feel like it's harder to measure things… maybe I need to just give up on being precise and still log it, anyway. 🤔

This has encouraged me to try a bit harder for myself, so thank you for sharing!

cassidy,
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@danarel yeah, I had a lot of success when I worked in an office and ate a lot more predictable meals—just scanning a barcode or entering the name of the dish from a chain place was so easy! But I have struggled ever since working from home because it seemed so daunting to figure out how exactly to log a completely homemade meal. But I agree with your thinking here.

What do you use to log food? I think I've used LoseIt and MyFitnessPal but don’t remember which I liked more or why.

cassidy,
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@danarel as someone who has long struggled to be healthier… what ended up working for you?

ebassi, to random
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My brother is a millennial, and he insists on sending (and asking for) short audio messages instead of texts. I can't decide if he's actually a boomer in disguise, or if he's already adapting to the lightspeed delays in communication when we inevitably colonise the solar system

cassidy,
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@ebassi I have never understood the audio message thing. Like, it's less convenient in almost every way.

cassidy, to random
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This is the stupidest response from Google Assistant ever. I VERY CLEARLY told it to turn off a specific light, and IT HEARD ME CORRECTLY, and yet… it played some random song from YouTube, INTERRUPTING THE SONG I WAS ALREADY CASTING.

This is beyond infuriating and makes me want to completely leave the Google ecosystem.

cassidy,
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@Natureshadow lolwat

cassidy, to random
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Maybe I could write this up into a blog post, but in going through old archived posts from birdsite, I came across a thread about a photo I was proud of. So I thought I would share it here where it won’t get lost as easily!

I am really happy with how this photo turned out! While the Pinebook Pro is indeed running elementary OS and it looks exactly like this, this photo was taken by Dani before we got the builds working. So the screen is faked. 🙈

cassidy,
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But it was done in a way to look as accurate to life as possible. The screenshot was composited onto the display on Glimpse/GIMP using the Pinebook Pro itself. 🤓 There is actually a lot going on here that (if I succeeded) is completely invisible at a glance.

First, the screenshot itself is 3D transformed to match the display. This is pretty simple and something I did all the time at System76 for web assets, but it gets pretty finicky. Glimpse/GIMP made this a breeze.

cassidy,
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I’ll be honest, I miss doing some of this more “jack of all trades” work. It was always exceptionally hard to explain what precisely I did at elementary, because it was everything from this to managing legal paperwork at times to coordinating with OEMs to prototyping ideas in Vala to writing press releases to organizing and running events… it was a lot. 😅

I absolutely love my work at @EndlessOS now, and there is still a healthy amount of everything, it’s just a bit more focused in scope. 😁

cassidy,
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Then I added a more blurred version of the display on top with a layer mask to recreate depth of field. This is where I could spend more time getting it perfect, but the quick pass works at a glance. Notice the sides of the display look out of focus compared to the center.

Last was the glare which I could’ve also spent more time on. But there’s a brightened layer of the display on top w/a radial layer mask centered around the left side. I’d probably make this even brighter if I was redoing it.

cassidy,
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The end result, compared to the original!

Pinebook Pro showing Manjaro on the screen

cassidy,
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Next, I added blur and grain to better match what a photo of a display would look like and to make it less obviously composited. I also edited the white and black points (effectively brightness and contrast) to better match the look of a photo of the matte display.

popey, to random
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The neighbour's cat, "Boobears" is a cheeky boy. We left the kitchen door open so he comes wandering in and sits here while we're watching TV :D

cassidy,
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@popey also, I loved this episode! The frickin' pineapples. 🤣

cassidy, to fediverse
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Is the ballooning server storage requirements for Mastodon (e.g. for small single-user or family instances) a side-effect of being a good ActivityPub client itself, or just a Mastodon thing?

E.g. if I wanted a just-as-federated server but running, say, GoToSocial instead, would I need just as much disk space?

cassidy,
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@martijn Mastodon does as well, but I seem to be hitting a wall with how low I can make the storage usage. Like over 50 GB of media and over 5 GB database.

stranded_output, to random

A Linux app that's equivalent to Microsoft Publisher. It's for an event poster that I need to make. Haven't touched any publishing apps for many years. Learned a bit of QuarkExpress and Publisher back in the day. Thoughts?

cassidy,
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@stranded_output Scribus is probably the most well-known and frequently recommended, but it's overkill for my uses. I know a lot of design folks use Inkscape but it's more free-form vector design and less print focused (but works!). Could also go as simple as LibreOffice Draw.

cassidy, to random
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I’d like to use OBS Studio as a virtual webcam on Fedora Silverblue… any up-to-date instructions for that?

It looks like it requires a kernel module, which makes things a bit more complicated (and e.g. requires recompiling for each kernel update).

cassidy,
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@doctormo I mean isn’t v4l2loopback itself a kernel module? At least according to the README…

I’d be curious to see your script, sure.

cassidy, to linux
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Just used Helvum from Flathub to watch a show on my laptop through my wife’s and my headphones simultaneously, and it worked flawlessly! Someone should make a GNOME extension to allow choosing multiple outputs, or something.

https://flathub.org/apps/org.pipewire.Helvum

As nice as it was to be able to do what I wanted, it was definitely intimidating at a glance. But it was as simple as connecting both headphones over Bluetooth, then dragging the app to the headphones in Helvum.

cassidy,
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For all the (tired) memes about audio on Linux,

  1. This was so freaking easy because I just downloaded an app from the universal app store and it… worked first try

  2. I have literally never had my audio “not work” on Linux

  3. I have had Windows not recognize the built-in trackpad, my SSD, my Intel GPU, my Ethernet card, and much more… 🤷

cassidy, to random
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Just remembered (because it autorenewed, lol) I own the site flatpak.app. Right now it’s set up to forward onto Flathub, e.g. https://flatpak.app/com.github.cassidyjames.dippi redirects to flathub.org/apps/com.github.cassidyjames.dippi.

It’s super dumb and just handled at the domain registrar level, but I wonder if it would make sense to redirect some short names, too, for verified apps? Like flatpak.app/firefox could redirect to the Firefox listing. 🤔 I also wonder if it should be possible to use with other remotes.

cassidy, to opensource
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Open source developers: please actually use your code host’s “releases” feature. It substantially raises visibility of your releases, lets downstreams use better tooling, and makes it less of a guessing game when trying to find versions.

Just tagging releases is the next best, but it’s a worse experience for everyone else. Not ever tagging/making releases is the worst possible thing you can do, and signals to other projects that you don’t care about stability or collaboration.

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