If you need Arial or some other Microsoft “Core Fonts” in your Docker or other headless installation, you might be tempted to just copy the fonts from your Windows installation, check them into your source control, and then copy it from there into the container, but reading the official Microsoft font FAQ and probably also […]
In the last post, I wrote about using MkDocs or rather Material for MkDocs for static site generation from Markdown files. You can build the a distribution yourself and put it on any hoster of your choosing, or you could use a variety of static site hosts, like GitHub Pages, or Netlify. I opted for […]
Time flies and so we’re approaching already the two months mark since the .NET Day Switzerland 2023 back at the end of August. Like last year I got to attend the one-day conference hosted in a cinema here in Zürich. While I’m not good at networking, I still enjoyed the in-between talks parts, as it […]
For a side project I’ve been looking into static site generators and came across MkDocs or more specifically Material for MkDocs, which bundles a nicer theme and some useful default plugins into one package and with great documentation. As the name implies MkDocs was primarily developed to write documentation, but it also works quite nicely […]
Most people have seen or probably even done some workflow automations through IFTTT (IF This Then That) or Zapier. While the free plans on either of these platforms are enough for some very simple workflows, anything a bit more complicated comes at a price (e.g. for Zapier $19.99/month), granted even then IFTT remains attractive ($2.50/month […]
Having joined the SFML community somewhen in 2010/2011, became part of the SFML Team (i.e. a maintainer) in 2014, and just recently been appointed to BDFL this year, I do feel like having some insights of what it takes to run a FOSS project, even if our scale is still relatively small. From this point […]
SFML 2.6.1 Looking at the last three minor releases, it was forseeable, that we would be releasing a patch version for SFML 2.6 some time soon. So far we’ve merged four fixes: The C++11 header issue was found, while getting the Conan package ready, which has since been merged. The OpenGL extension bug, was reported […]
SFML 2.6.0 has been released! 🎉 It’s already been five and a half years since the last release and the changelog does show this. What I’m most proud of however is this: We got 74+ people contributing to this release! It really goes to show that SFML is a community project. While I hope we […]
A short post on how to update all the packages for various package managers, be it programming language specific ones, or ones from OS-level package managers. For all the times you want to get your system up-to-date on all fronts. If you have some other package manager commands, post them as comment below! WinGet Chocolatey […]
SFML Development Update It took a while and a lot of testing efforts on the three big platforms, but setMaximumSize and setMinimumSize have just been merged! 🥳 I think it’s a great example of how even the seemingly simple features take quite a bit of thinking about the design and knowledge of the lower level […]