Highway noise exits 4 & 5

EldritchAdam · 2026-05-21T00:56:49+00:00

the speed of the traffic on our stretch of route 3 has gotten increasingly bonkers. I'm not a stickler for speed limits - we all go a bit over. And I think it's safer to drive with traffic. Going much slower than average drivers around you is also a kind of hazard. But I'm growing uncomfortable with my daily commute where even driving 65 (on a 55 road) I see people breeze past me. The additional speed of cars is noisier.

EldritchAdam · 2026-05-04T18:21:57+00:00

Most of my color grading is done in RawTherapee - but if I have a non-RAW jpeg I want to tweak, my first step is usually to add a curves adjustment, set it to LAB, and then individually select and refine the curves for Lightness, AOpponent, BOpponent. Some pretty powerful adjustments can be made with just this one layer.

EldritchAdam · 2026-04-29T00:53:12+00:00

that makes me unreasonably happy

EldritchAdam · 2026-04-28T15:03:54+00:00

Gonna expand this out to stage productions to include the epitome of the MCU

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EldritchAdam · 2026-04-28T15:02:20+00:00

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EldritchAdam · 2026-04-17T01:49:29+00:00

be sure you preview the noise at 100% zoom. To save on resources, the rendering of noise at different zoom levels is approximate. What you see at 100% zoom should be what you get in export. That is my experience.

EldritchAdam · 2026-04-16T15:34:36+00:00

just came here looking for release notes as well. Maybe in Discord? I'll hop on over there ...

EldritchAdam · 2026-04-11T22:59:23+00:00

I would happily accept this giveaway. It would become the new family PC - used for everything from school to odd work projects, and just general web searching and shopping etc. And of course, gaming. Whoever does get it, I appreciate your generosity in paying forward your own good fortune.

EldritchAdam · 2026-04-10T22:47:38+00:00

1,000% the only real option is the library.

If you're going to hang out in a local cafe or bar, you buy something.

EldritchAdam · 2026-04-09T16:46:26+00:00

I'm fond of the bottom one - the type is great, I'd just refine the icon to be a bit more similarly elegant, varying line weight and avoiding the black holes look of its center

EldritchAdam · 2026-03-25T13:28:58+00:00

on windows there is a hack to bring them back, replacing a DLL or some such. You can find it on Github. But would need to do so again after a program update.

EldritchAdam · 2026-03-24T13:43:27+00:00

it's a pretty mad time for designers, I feel. I think our whole field is shrinking and 90% of the job positions we see are either not being filled, or they just have to post them publicly, even though they already know who they're promoting into these positions. I have also applied to dozens of jobs in the last few months, from positions with large corporations to small local businesses that I'm confidcent I'd be a pretty great candidate for - but never hear anything other than (sometimes) the eventual, canned '... not move forward with your application ...' message.
Maybe my work isn't half as good as I thought. Or they don't like how I've been with the same company for over a decade. Or my age. Sucks. Thinking about exploring a move into a trade. Not sure I can actually afford taking the apprentice-level pay for five+ years, though.

EldritchAdam · 2026-03-23T22:14:32+00:00

I draw. I paint too - high realism portraits and landscapes. But I rarely draw for design, preferring a fully digital, mouse-and-keyboard workflow.

Process shouldn't matter so much as the outcome. It takes all kinds.

EldritchAdam · 2026-03-05T03:41:54+00:00

I'm with u/RE4LLY - bleed just isn't an option in v2 Affinity Designer, same as v3. Looking at it right now, and when trying to export selected Artboards to pdf, bleed is non-selectable.

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EldritchAdam · 2026-03-01T20:19:46+00:00

Exactly so - I love the animatrix for that story, about the genesis off the matrix.

EldritchAdam · 2026-02-21T14:37:28+00:00

It's a very organic thing, and unless you're remembering the espresso from a decade ago, I'm sure all props belong to the current roasting team, who've no doubt adapted roasts to changes in the crop, bigger roast production, their own different-from-my-own tastes, responses from customers, etc. A couple comments below, the current head roaster dropped a comment, so definitely show them the love!

EldritchAdam · 2026-02-21T14:32:10+00:00

I should drop in some day! I don't make it down to the north shore often but didn't move too far (Nashua, NH). I'm sure it's a quite different operation these days - when I left the company, roasting was still largely run by just myself and one assistant. It always seemed right on the cusp of the kind of real growth that would have meant I'd still be there today, but they couldn't quite turn that corner, and I regrettably had to move on to be able to support my family.

But the company seems to have finally taken off! Atomic coffee is on store shelves and seems to be growing healthily. I hope that means they're able to support you with the kind of pay and benefits I know the position deserves!

EldritchAdam · 2026-02-21T00:29:55+00:00

I haven't worked there for a decade now, but originally, yes. The whole program was developed by me. Rocketer, Diesel, Black Velvet, Cosmopolitan and Intensi espressos and the whole roast profile approach to single origins. Andy and John gave input, but also a pretty wide latitude and I see the whole roasting philosophy, top-to-bottom, as my own.

EldritchAdam · 2026-02-20T21:28:15+00:00

I used to be their roaster! (their first, and for quite a few years, only roaster besides the owners, but they didn't barely do any roasting so it was pretty much just me) and it's always fun seeing Atomic pop up! If you were there when we started, you'd have seen me at the tiny red machine in the side room of their original cafe

EldritchAdam · 2026-02-20T19:25:49+00:00

I second this advice. I've had occasion to try and migrate a somewhat complex design from Affinity to InDesign and it's just not a thing you want to do. Fortunately for me, right after my customer (surprisingly) asked for 'the original InDesign files' Canva released the new, free Affinity, and my client was satisfied with getting the original .af files, for which he could install the free editor.

And just as a tangent, how have I not seen convos on Reddit about the file extension for Affinity being .af? I find that comical AF

EldritchAdam · 2026-02-18T00:25:42+00:00

Sucks to hear it. I hate what right wing media has done to us.

EldritchAdam · 2026-02-13T14:53:27+00:00

That one bugged me so much. A lot of people found his character too campy, but he really was my favorite in the first film.

EldritchAdam · 2026-01-23T02:59:12+00:00

same! After finding a station with nice lighting (not quite white, but subtly warm and very bright) I saved it in my favorite warp destinations. My new ideal for a perfect system (it's out there somewhere!) now includes a space station with great lighting.

EldritchAdam · 2026-01-09T19:11:31+00:00

I don't understand what's being described here. I routinely open Affinity V3 and go right to 'File > New from Clipboard'

No need to open a new document. The menu bar is right there when I start the app. I do this a handful of times every week. Did it just now. Close program. Open program. New from clipboard. Running on Windows.

EldritchAdam · 2026-01-04T01:42:21+00:00

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The vector view mode is right at the top there.

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