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  • Artist's Website Software

    https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/artists-website-software

    My website has grown organically over 12 years, but the code is looking very messy and unmanageable, so I’m thinking of recoding it from scratch (while adding a lot of improvements). I decided that…

  • Software for Artists for Free

    https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/software-for-artists-for-free

    Software costs money. Actually that’s not true – there’s plenty of free software out there for artists, and the ones detailed below are just as good as the expensive versions. Browsers Web browsers…

  • Colophon | BobbyHiltz.com

    https://bobbyhiltz.com/colophon.html

    A personal blog

  • Some thoughts on AI art tools

    https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/some-thoughts-on-ai-art-tools

    Publicly-accessible AI art tools — Craiyon (formerly DALL-E mini), Midjourney, and the growing number of others — allow non-skilled users to produce an image that otherwise they would not have been…

  • PostgreSQL Development: Lessons for Perl?

    https://justatheory.com/2009/07/pg-vs-perl-dev

    Pondering Conservatism I’ve been following chromatic’s new blog since it launched, and have read with particular interest his posts on the Perl 5 development and release process. The very long time between releases of stable versions of Perl has concerned me for a while, though I hadn’t paid much attention until recently. There has been a fair amount of discussion about what it means for a release to be “stable,” from, among others, now-resigned Perl Pumpking Rafael Garcia-Suarez and Perl 5 contributor chromatic. Reading this commentary, I started to ponder what other major open-source projects might consider “stable,” and how they manage stability in their development and release processes. And it occurred to me that the Perl 5 code base is simultaneously treated too conservatively and – more importantly – not conservatively enough. What open-source projects treat their code highly conservatively?

  • Uses | Alex Zee Comedy,Powered by Echofeed,BrainMade.org,IndieWeb,Webmentions,omg.lol People Pledge

    https://alexzeecomedy.com/pages/uses

    My complete setup. A detailed list of the hardware (computers, cameras, mics) and software (editors, FOSS tools) that comedian Alex Zee uses for comedy and content creation.

  • Kid Pix – Lucy Bellwood

    https://lucybellwood.com/kid-pix

  • I Would Rather Spend an Evening on a Web Scraper than Use Your App

    https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/05/i-would-rather-spend-an-evening-on-a-web-scraper-than-use-your-app

    My Swedish textbook publisher wanted me to listen to audio examples on their site or in their app. I had other ideas.

  • Artists Website Software – Feb 2009 Update

    https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/artists-website-software-feb-2009-update

    I thought it was about time to give you all an update on the free open-source Artists Website Software I’m currently working on. I’ve got a very basic skeleton completed so far, but the alpha version…

  • The Artist’s Notebook

    https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/tagged

    The Artist’s Notebook is Paul Watson’s studio journal containing notes on his ongoing artwork and related research, giving an insight into his creative process and artistic practice.

  • Artists Website Software – December Update

    https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/artists-website-software-december-update

    In my last post I talked about the Artists Website Software I was planning. It’s been a busy few months (both with my day-job and with moving house) but I have made some progress, and I hope to have…