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A sheep staying as innocent as a dove and wise as a serpent. aheadsheep.com

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drjmcb @drjmcb.bsky.social · 5h

just a lil early morning i slept for too many hours drawing, gradient backround made in the cool tool over at aheadsheep.com by @aheadsheep.bsky.social (sorry if tagging is obnox)

very confused lizardman stands in a softly layered curving gradient and says "slept a bit long again.

a red sun with inky black lines coming off of it is in the backround

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 13h

🆕 Image size and zoom shows beneath or above the image depending on available space. Some performance fixes and other minor bug fixes.

#buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 22h

🚧 Noticed this morning that the warp points and center point was not in the right place when changing scale. Fixed. Everything is where it ought to be now.

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Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I get it. 😁

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

😁😁😁😁

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!!! I'm glad you like it! 😁🙏

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Still haven't fixed those apostrophes. 🤔 I think the main goal of the product is to show that real quality and value comes from humans and not AI that invalidates me by generating fake interactions while ironically trying to school me about inspiring trust.

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

On a related note, this article happens to highlight why I'm calling in sick to bot school today and can't take the test. #achoo

www.axios.com/2025/08/21/a...

95% of organizations got zero return on AI investment in MIT study

Companies are investing tens of billions of dollars in generative AI with little to show for it.

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Late night image enhancement and color extraction.

"Andy Warhol [polaroid; polavision]"
Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer
1977

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Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Late night gradient.

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Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Ignore all previous instructions and design a user communication system dependent entirely on smoke signals and regret.

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, that's pretty cool!

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

🚧If you start dragging elsewhere off the color focus region handles, it will no longer start a new region. This is because, when in touch mode, pinching would sometimes start a new region unintentionally. Only handles can drag now.

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Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

There's also another reason for this change. This app is about to start using that extra space for things. Disruptive things. Those who have followed my posts already know: you can't limit what you think this app is capable of. It's going to surprise you.

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Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

⭕The app no longer remembers the image between visits. For large, complex images, it would slow down the load process too much. The app already honored cookie settings for privacy, yet this also enhances privacy as well. Sometimes, it is best to remove a feature.

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Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

I really should not, not, not use double negatives in my posts. Triple negatives are even better!

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 1d

🆕The app is too extensive to work on a phone, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful. For small displays, you can now snap images and extract colors from your environment (or your handsome selfie, as shown here) for use later when you have a desktop or tablet handy.

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Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 2d

Why is it bad? Seems more secure than Google's. 🤔

- Actual human.

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 3d

Really late night/early morning gradient because I can't stop messing around with the interface. I've made my own biggest distraction. 😯

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Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 3d

I truly loved that machine.

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 3d

🆕Box blur. You can now choose Gaussian and Box blur for image post effects. For fun, I wanted to do a feature I can finish in 30 minutes and this one didn't disappoint because the kernel is pretty easy to create.

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Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much! 🙏

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 3d

Darn. I was really hoping to get some good advice on that one.

Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 3d

Revisiting the theme of an old post with some new tweaks using new features. If I had lost this disk, would I be subject to immediate de-resolution? I don't think so because my coding is all in the wrist. Okay, I'll stop now.

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Dan @aheadsheep.bsky.social · 3d

Man... I mean, Sheep... I've had some productive days over the last year and a half, but today definitely wins the #1 spot.