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  • Boardreader

    Definition
    A search engine that searches only posts in forums.
  • OpenGameArt.org

    Definition
    A website with royalty free assets for game development, including 2D graphics (sprites, backgrounds, fonts, cursors, icons), 3D graphics (models, textures), and audio (music, sound effects).
  • Game-icons.net

    Definition
    A website with many royalty free icons and similar graphic assets mainly for game development.
  • PyDPainter

    Freeware
    Linux
    macOS
    Open Source
    Windows
    A free and open source pixel art editor for Windows, macOS, Linux.
  • Aseprite vs. LibreSprite Feature Comparison

    Review
    A review of the features of Aseprite and LibreSprite in order to compare their differences.
  • Pixel Joint

    Forum
    Image Posts
    An online pixel art community website where you can share your pixel art on the Internet.
  • Pixilart

    Ad-Supported
    Android
    Freeware
    Image Posts
    iOS
    Web App
    A pixel art community website to share your pixel art with the world and a pixel art app for creating pixel art.
  • Lospec

    Image Posts
    An online pixel art community website where you can share pixel art you have created in its pixel art gallery.
  • Pixelation.org

    Abandonware
    A defunct online pixel art community forum.
  • .sh (File Extension)

    Reference
    A file extension for shell scripts for Linux and other UNIX-based operating systems (BSD, macOS).
  • Fixing Copilot's Code by Learning Rust

    My Blog
    My journey fixing the code that Copilot generated for me yesterday when I coded with AI for the first time.
  • Open Next File in Folder

    Definition
    A functionality found in applications that open files such as image viewers and video players in which upon opening a single file from a folder it's possible to navigate from the application to the next file in the same folder without having to manually add all files in the folder to the application.
  • Hidden Interface that Appears on Hover

    Definition
    A graphical user interface that contains elements that are normally invisible, and that appear only after you move your mouse cursor of some element, for example by hovering their containing element.
  • AI Code Completion

    Definition
    A feature of some AI-based software for software development that leverages large language models (LLM's) in order to generate code inside a source code editor or IDE.
  • AI Chatbot

    Definition
    A type of software that lets you query information by typing a sentence into a text box that is processed by a large language model instead of traditional algorithms.
  • Copilot

    Freeware
    An AI chatbot provided by Microsoft.
  • Coding with AI for the First Time

    My Blog
    My experience trying Github's Copilot (model version GPT-4o) in VS Code (Visual Studio Code) to program a quick Pong game in Rust with Web Assembly in one day.
  • List of Programming Languages with Null Safety

    List
    Reference
    Languages with static null checks or null safety that result in a build time error if you access a nullable variable without checking if it's null first.
  • My Review of VLC

    Linux
    Review
    Windows
    VLC has great support for all common audio and video formats, provides many customizability options, and implements several usability features, but lacks a few functions common in other video players and unnecessarily hides some of its advanced functionality in obscured locations in its user interface. If it weren't for the missing functionality, it would have been a perfect video player.
  • Polyphone

    Freeware
    Linux
    macOS
    Open Source
    Windows
    An application for creating soundfonts using audio samples from music instruments or any random noise you wish
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