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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 4h

We're just getting towards the end of Season 2, it's just been getting better 👌

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 4h

Gross, someone I've never heard of before signed me up for their substack. In the bin it goes 🗑️

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 22h

A free font bundle apparently 🤷 (waiting in the email myself so I’m not 100%)

Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 22h

I truly hope so🤞

I quite like the new unified app approach, and I think I’ll be able to make use of the new image tracing feature.

I’ve not watched the keynote myself but apparently folks who purchased v2 will get a free front package?

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 1d

Yep; got that to look forward to I guess 😔

Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 1d

I can't remember what the opt-out was for specifically, I think it was more usage analytics than AI training. I had to turn off a few more things through the privacy page on Canva.

For good measure I blocked the app on my firewall too. It seems to work offline no problem after initial install/open.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 1d

I think that's the gist of it.

I'm a bit skeptical of this in their privacy policy: www.canva.com/policies/pri...

Though they do allow you to opt-out upon install, and they stated a few times they don't have access to anything local on your machine.

Privacy Policy

This page explains how Canva collects and uses the information that we collect about you when you use the Service. This policy also explains the choices that you can make about the way that we use you...

www.canva.com

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 1d

😅 My reaction too. I

I've already popped the application behind the firewall app Radio Silence just in case.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 1d

Ok, here's why it's "Free"

www.canva.com/policies/pri...

"We may analyze your activity, content, media uploads and related data in your account to provide and customize the Service, and to train our algorithms, models and AI products ..."

You can turn it off in settings, supposedly. 😒

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 1d

I gave the image tracing a go with a quick sketch - seems good enough, though I don't really have anything to compare it to.

It broke up a few paths but I could easily fix that by merging (vector add) them together.

Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 1d

The new Affinity app is a unified experience (Basically what Affinity Publisher was doing), letting us switch between vector, pixel, and publishing modes, along with a few others.

The UI feels very familiar and I've got no complaints there. Seems easy to customize tools, adding more columns etc.

Screenshot of the Customize Tools window from the new Affinity app on macOS, showing a bunch of icons representing various tools I can add to the UI of this editing software.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 1d

I'm not here at all for the AI stuff, but I'm keen to see some improvements in the vector design side of things.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 1d

The new Affinity thing dropped:
www.affinity.studio

I'm giving it a download to see - At a quick glance it looks like image tracing finally arrived 🥳

They're calling it "free", with the AI features being what's behind a paywall, such as upscaling, image/vector gen, and generative expand tools.

Unsupported client

It seems you are using an old or unsupported browser. To continue enjoying our product, please update to a recent version of one of the following browsers:

www.affinity.studio

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 1d

Just the words "You're absolutely right!"

oooOOOooorbette @orbette.bsky.social · 1d

What terrifying thing are you dressing as this Halloween I'm dressing up as acid reflux

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 1d

To the folks I've seen mentioning the TV show Slow Horses, thank you 🙏 Just started and we're liking it a lot.

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 2d

A very clever web component that’ll make your conditional form fields a breeze to put together.

www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/a-w...

A Web Component for Conditionally Displaying Fields :: Aaron Gustafson

Building on my recent work in the form utility space, I’ve created a new web component that allows you to conditionally display form fields based on the values of other fields: form-show-if.

www.aaron-gustafson.com

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Sia Karamalegos @sia.codes · 2d

📣 The next #eleventy-meetup will be on November 18th 12pm EST! In this episode, we have the templating wars from the two newest, hottest templating languages. @harris.social.coop.ap.brid.gy will walk us through WebC, and vrugtehagel introduce us to Vento.

All details: 11tymeetup.dev

#11ty

THE Eleventy Meetup

Join the Possum Posse to learn more about Eleventy! We're a new virtual meetup all about Eleventy and the tools and skills that support developing on Eleventy.Sign up for email updates

11tymeetup.dev

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 2d

Nice, they’ll be good talks ☺️

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 3d

The official replacement we got kinda sucked after a while using it too. Play/Pause button seems to get stuck, and there’s a weird click on the central button 😭

Next time I’m going 3rd party.

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 4d

WHO NEEDS FREE CURSORS? FREE CURSORS COME GET YOUR CURSORS PIXEL AND VECTOR ALL FREE COME GET YOUR CURSORS BEFORE THEY RUN OUT

kenney.nl/assets/curso...
kenney.nl/assets/curso...

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 4d

🚨 The launch price of JavaScript for Everyone closes at the end of the day, tomorrow! 🚨

Use code JS4ELAUNCH at checkout to get it for £189, instead of the £249 full price.

Our PPP system will give you the cheapest price, for countries that usually qualify, too!

JavaScript for Everyone

A high quality, expansive written course that will elevate your JavaScript skills to a level you never thought was achievable.

piccalilli.link

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 4d

Self-hosting no, but dealing with Google, slightly 😅
But yeah, glad it's sorted too :)

Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 4d

Final Update:

"Google has received and processed your security review request. Google systems indicate that hejchristian .com no longer contains links to harmful sites or downloads. "

It never did, but thanks I guess. At least it wasn't something I'd done.

Back to tinkering I go!

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 5d

Clocks went back and I'm here for it.

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Christian Alder @hejchristian.com · 5d

I'll keep an eye out for it 🥳

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