A new Quilt Draw release has been made! To use it, go to its repository page. Possible issue: Please turn off Dark Reader for the site when using a browser that supports prefers-color-scheme, because the site already has a dark theme for that environment.

This is a major release that restructures the entire UI into tabs. The “Block” tab retains the editor, block controls, and a mini-preview. A larger preview, and controls for the quilt as a whole, are on the “Quilt” tab. Finally, there is a “Print” tab with a print-oriented layout. It should show the block at a reasonable size, along with the whole preview, on a single page.

Printing is meant to work reasonably well on either A4 or US Letter paper sizes with “fit width” as the scaling option. Please file an issue if there are any problems.

The tools for the block editor have been revamped to be graphical.

The “spin” and “flip” tools have been reworked, so that all operations are available without a right-click function available. That is, instead of a single “Flip” tool that chooses directions based entirely on the mouse button, there are distinct “↔” (horizontal flip) and “↕” (vertical flip) tools. Each one supports right-click to do the related operation, but it is no longer required.

Minor features include:

• The main/secondary color layout is vertical, to reduce confusion when using left-handed mouse button layout (the primary color is now above, rather than to the left of, the secondary color.)
• The mouse cursor changes shape over the block editor, based on the currently selected tool, as an additional hint.
• New site/app icons have been created.

This release has been tagged in the repository as v2.0.0; going forward, each release will be given a version number, according to the Semantic Versioning standard.

Support for Firefox 52 ESR (Windows XP/Vista) and Pale Moon has been retained. I would like to give a special salute to Mozilla for supporting operating systems longer than strictly necessary.

I am pleased to announce the first release of garden-vim, a dark, earthy theme primarily for GUI (gVim, neovim, and truecolor terminals.)

Screenshots, with airline:

The airline theme is designed to change only the leftmost background when changing modes. Changing the entire line seemed rather distracting.

Due to the limitations of the 256-color XTerm palette, there exists a 256-color theme, but it is not recommended. One should use :set termguicolors to activate truecolor rendering in terminal windows for the best experience. Alternatively, check if has('gui_running') to choose a different theme for the terminal in the else branch of your vimrc file:

if has('gui_running')
  colorscheme garden
else
  colorscheme desert
endif

Once again, the repository is github.com/sapphirecat/garden-vim.

Happy hacking!

This is a small pre-announcement; nothing is available yet.

I have another update planned for the Zora vim theme, namely, support for airline.

A previous update to Zora is that version 1.1.0 (renamed and) documented a config option, the g:zora_use_gui_colors variable. Internally, the theme loads only GUI colors if the GUI is running, the termguicolors option is known+set… or if the variable is set to 1. Otherwise, it falls back to checking t_Co to load the 256- or 16-color theme, depending on the terminal’s capabilities.

I am also designing a new theme called Garden, a GUI-oriented theme in warm earthy tones with a dark green background. This theme will have airline support from the start. A serviceable 256-color variant will be provided, but the background color will be gray instead of green.

Stay tuned for the final release!

A new Quilt Draw release has been made! To use it, go to its repository page. Known issue: Please turn off Dark Reader for the site.

This is a small release to add support for Firefox 52 ESR (Windows XP and Vista.) There are no new features.

I would like to give a special salute to Mozilla for supporting operating systems longer than strictly necessary.

Following the reporting (and subsequent fixing) of issue #1, sapphirecat/slim4-http-interop-adapter has two new versions:

• 1.0.2 updates the composer.json to reject Slim 4.11 and newer, while retaining compatibility with PHP 7.1
• 1.1.0 requires Slim 4.11+ and PHP 7.4+

Links: GitHub and Packagist.

This is a change from the versioning policy previously listed in the CHANGELOG.md file. It previously stated that removing support for a PHP version would be a major release. However, this is not how the wider PHP ecosystem treats it, and it does not appear to be necessary under Semantic Versioning. In particular, this package has no user-facing API, and therefore, nothing is broken by this change.

Since release, I have found that the 1.0 branch's support of PHP 7.1 is overly broad. By the time my package is useful (Slim 4.9.0), Slim itself required PHP 7.3. Nevertheless, v1.0.2 keeps all support that v1.0.0 promised.

A new Quilt Draw release has been made! To use it, go to its repository page. Known issue: Please turn off Dark Reader for the site.

This is a small release to fix the download buttons in Pale Moon 31, and presumably, all previous versions. I will be testing the non-updated version of Pale Moon included with Fossapup64 9.5, and making any additional updates that prove to be necessary.

I have also learned that Quilt Draw does not work in Windows XP, due to my choice of color picker library. No changes are expected in that situation, but it would have been cool if it had worked.

A new Quilt Draw release has been made! To use it, go to its repository page. Known issue: Dark Reader completely destroys the UI elements. Please turn off Dark Reader for the site.

The devproxy2 2.1.1 source release has been made.

Due to an oversight, a 2.1.0 release was also made today, although the tag has been available in the repository for some time.

A new quilt-draw release has been made! This may also be the world’s first announcement of its existence, outside of appearing in a GitHub repository.

To use it, go to its repository page. Known issue: Dark Reader completely destroys the UI elements. Please turn off Dark Reader for the site.