Nicolas Silva @nical@mastodon.gamedev.place

We're excited to announce the release of GNOME 43!

Thanks to the hard work of our community of contributors, #GNOME43 brings a redesigned system settings menu, a new Device Security page, improvements to many core apps, and more!

See all the updates in our release notes: https://release.gnome.org/43/

#GNOME #releaseday #opensource #FOSS

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

New information about GNOME Shell mobile, a new GTK release, GNOME Circle updates - and a lot of app releases!

#60 Demo Day
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/09/twig-60/

#GNOME #TWIG

Use #GNOME? We want to hear from you! Help with our anonymous data collection campaign. https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2022/08/25/help-improve-gnome/

Krita 5.1.0 released! https://krita.org/en/item/krita-5-1-0-released/

HERE WE GO!

#GodotEngine 3.5 is finally released, and it's amazingly feature-packed!

🧭 Navigation
🏃 Physics interpolation
🧃 Better tweening
⏲️ Time singleton
📜 Label3D and TextMesh
🏷️ Unique node names
🌊 Flow containers
🎨 Async shaders
And more!

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-3-5-cant-stop-wont-stop

I am pleased to announce that #ThisWeekInGNOME is having its first anniversary! There has never been that many news as this week in the whole year!

#52 Happy Birthday!
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/07/twig-52/

#GNOME #TWIG

New blog post!
Piecewise least squares curve fitting. How to do it, and info on how to use equality constraints for values and derivatives.
https://blog.demofox.org/2022/06/29/piecewise-least-squares-curve-fitting/

cargo-machete, a tool to quickly find unused dependencies in your #rustlang projects!

https://github.com/bnjbvr/cargo-machete

#rust

Someone asked me this recently, so I wrote a short explainer.

If cryptocurrency is supposed to be based on "unbreakable" cryptography, what are some of the ways it's been getting hacked?

https://jwestman.net/2022/04/28/why-does-crypto-keep-getting-hacked.html

https://blog.opensource.org/gnome-patent-troll-stripped-of-patent-rights/

Wow! What an exciting week! There has never been so much news in a single week!

📢 #ThisWeekInGNOME "#26 Contact Me" is online now!

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/01/twig-26/

Includes news about GNOME Contacts, Builder, Mutter, Fragments, Secrets, GJS, gtk-rs, Gaphor and MUCH more!

#TWIG #GNOME

Here's a large collection of game programming articles about various topics, such as physics, rendering, maths and more: https://www.gamedevs.org/

#gamedev

Implementing Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) : https://lettier.github.io/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners/ssao.html
A very nice tutorial with intuitive illustrations!
#gamedev #programming #rendering

Krita 5.0 released! https://krita.org/en/item/krita-5-0-released/

Krita 5.0 might be coming before Christmas, and it's a massive gift package: https://krita.org/en/krita-5-0-release-notes/

Artists and gamers rejoice! GNOME Shell 42 will let applications handle input events at the full input device rate. Learn more about this update in the latest GNOME Shell & Mutter blog post: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/12/08/an-eventful-instant/

#GNOME42

Okay, it's been 3 weeks! New recap is out: new releases of GIMP, Krita, Penpot, ArmorPaint, Audacity, PipeWire, Apple joins Blender Dev Fund, Stargate DAW joins Linux audio family, Ardour gets clip launching as part of future live looping feature set.

https://librearts.org/2021/10/week-recap-31-oct-2021/

Featured image by Protyanik Hazra #b3d

If you want to know all updates / changes, make sure to check out the current issue #14 "Well-Rounded"!

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2021/10/twig-14/