I do not fear that some agents will pollute my repos with their PR. In opposite, I suppose that we will end at a point where for each question, task, or problem, one will find many (AI-coded) solutions, making it impossible to choose a right, solid, reliable one. I recently thought about having a database of tools per task so that a comparison would be possible. But the maintenance costs of something like this are enormous when including benchmarks, comparisons, etc. on different qualities.

I though this may be interesting for linguistics fellows...

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- db2qthelp — a DocBook book to QtHelp project converter (https://github.com/dkrajzew/db2qthelp)

- grebakker: a private backup tool (https://github.com/dkrajzew/grebakker)

- gresiblos: a tiny static site builder (https://github.com/dkrajzew/gresiblos)

Currently, I work on a Desktop GLSL shader editor. Looks fine so far...

Or see the examples page: http://www.alsog.de/feat_examples.php

It replaces common ASCII characters by their typographic counterpart, e.g. "Hello - I'm back" will get "Hello — I'm back"

Yeah, look, it's hacky, yes, and maybe runs only with a certain setting.

But, well, you may be right, when I think a second time about this. Thanks...

Any criticism or interest is appreciated.

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I build a tool for playing with color palettes. I know, it's not really the first one but there are some special features, I would like to talk about.

First, it supports not only 8bit palettes, but also ones with up to 65536 indices. And floating point palette indices. Now, floating point indices are smooth - the palette is stretched along the value range of 0.0 to 65535.0 including fractions and optional interpolation. That's fine. But usualy indices with more or less than 256 entries are not easy to understand, as colors get pruned or do not show up...

Second, the fact that you can have up to 65536 color entries does not make life simpler, in contrary. Some of the algorithms, like e.g. repetition patterns (which already were on HN, http://www.krajzewicz.de/blog/stretching-the-c64-palette.php), easily generate vast palettes. How to limit the user, here? One implemented solution is that you have to set a maximum palette size using an extra option in the settings... Are there better ways?

And, third, what is the best way to promote it - besides posting it here?

Sincerely, Daniel

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