Yeah. One possibility is you might want to look into possibly developing this concept as a plug-in for something like Aseprite [1]. That's the one I personally use when doing sprite work and it exports a spritesheet and accompanying JSON offset metadata.
Sure, but the more barriers there are the better because it still reduces the number of threats. That’s why people choose to rent walled gardens. Otherwise, Linux would have higher adoption even among our crowd.
If you really value freedom over everything else, I don’t see value in putting bad bandages over closed platforms. Might as well just switch to an open one.
> because it still reduces the number of threats. That’s why people choose to rent walled gardens. Otherwise, Linux would have higher adoption even among our crowd.
I seriously doubt that's the reason, compared to Linux not being the default and Microsoft having spent years sabotaging it.
MS Office is available for Linux and Linux is an option on Azure. Even some new games from the Xbox division are officially sanctioned to run on Linux.
There is no longer a good reason to stay in a walled garden for your personal machine. The author should just make the switch if staying in the Apple ecosystem, or any other closed system, makes him really unhappy
Why do people want this? Shipping constantly is how software breaks. You want tools that are good and stable, not constantly churning. I wish software developers would wake up to the idea that velocity is not a marker of quality.
Careful, focused work can easily sustain daily, or almost-daily, shipping. We've been doing it for decades without LLMs.
LLM-brain is pushing people into continuous by the hour shipping and it is absolutely unecessary and creating code at a rate that cannot possibly be kept up with in relation to quality, performance and security.
The idea is to only add the metadata as a final step when you export the spritesheet, so at that point there's no need to edit further.
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