01:50 am - Inverlacer!
I wrote a little program that will read in a graphics file, invert every second line, and write a new file as the output.
( Source (Look Ma! No comments!) )
It depends on a command called convert, which is pretty standard in Linux distributions. I'm not 100% certain this would work on Windows, but if it does it would need ImageMagick to be installed and "rm temp.ppm" would probably have to be changed to "del temp.ppm". (How come the Windows command to remove a directory is rd, following the UNIX pattern of rm to remove a file, but the Windows command to remove a file doesn't follow that pattern? Oh, wait, I'm expecting consistency from Microsoft. My bad.)
It's not quite finished, yet. It would be nice if it would write an image file in any format, and not just PPM format. That's easy but I'm lazy. It would also be nice if it deleted the temporary file it uses when it was finished. There's really kind of no excuse for it not doing that, I'm afraid. (Fixed.) It could do a little more error-checking too, so that it doesn't do silly things if the file doesn't exist or whatever.
The biggest issue is that it doesn't do what I want. It does a full RGB invert which is kind of ugly, when what I really want to do is convert the RGB value to HSV, invert the V, and then convert the result back to RGB. That can really be quite pretty, but as you can probably figure by looking here, is somewhat non-trivial. Ugh maths.
By way of example with my beautiful face, the image on the left is the original, the one in the middle is what this program does, and the one on the right (which took me fucking ages to do in GIMP) is what I want it to eventually do.
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04:46 am - Sidebar summary
Okay, I wrote a page-summary dealie for my LJ-sidebar, but it's broken again. Seemingly now it only wants to navigate to entries that actually have a subject line. But your entries should have subject lines, you lazy sods. Well, at least I know where I've gone wrong. I'm not sure I can be bothered to fix it at this moment though.
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08:49 am - For any boardies who still bother to look at LJ
Introducing pickleclicky 0.5[alpha]
Pickleclicky is a Greasemonkey script I wrote for Firefox for the Radiohead Message Board. It scans messages for URLs and converts them into clickable links. It's not finished yet (hence the fact that the version is lower than 1.0 and is still alpha), and has a few annoying bugs (like changing all the text to Times New Roman) but it's already functional.
You can find out more about it at my website.
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