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New Patreon Policy

Patreon is Changing to Monthly-Only Recently, I was given a notification from Patreon that “per creation” funding…

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August 2024 Summary

HIGHLIGHTS Earlier this Summer, I had high expectations for what I would be able to do in…

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July 2024 Summary

HIGHLIGHTS PRODUCTION Started blocking the shot file for the new “PLSS control panel” animation. Migrated back to…

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June 2024 Summary

Highlights This month was mostly about moving, organizing, and checking the source repositories and working copies of…

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April & May 2024 Summary

Early April: Eclipse Party Time! The beginning of April was all about getting ready for our Total…

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Guest Blog: AI Energy Consumption Fact Checks

A popular criticism of artificial intelligence recently has been that it uses a staggering amount of energy,…

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Hows and Whys of Screenlogging

My feed on Mastodon has been filling up with knee-jerk reactions to Microsoft’s new “Recall” software for…

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Testing Nextcloud for Source File Sync

I’ve been looking for a good solution to manage source (and render) files from the project, for…

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Testing New AV Linux Workstation

I’ve just completed a rather rough migration from Ubuntu Studio to AV Linux on my production workstation….

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Reflections on Time and Space for April 2024

It’s now April 12, 2024. It has been 63 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human…

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