David Mas-Ponte
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David Mas-Ponte
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Postdoc at @humantechnopole.bsky.social working with Andrea Sottoriva to study the evolutionary rules of cancer.

Previously at UW Genome Sciences and @irbbarcelona.org

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big limitation is that the highlights are not exported when you download the file locally... 🥲 (you don't see the highlights in other programs other than chrome)
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
There's some black magic stuff happening under the hood. You can read a pdf online, highlight stuff, download the pdf in your computer, highlight stuff in your local copy (using chrome), open the remote version of the file and it shows the updated highlights. Really useful 👌
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
If they indeed keep it free forever might be bad news for inkscape, I wasn't a fan of it from the time it barely worked on mac but i know it's been better recently.

A really cool open source project that is also rising now is graphite.rs. Same idea as inkscape with web version too, still in alpha
Free online vector editor & procedural design tool
Open source free software. A vector graphics creativity suite with a clean, intuitive interface. Opens instantly (no signup) and runs locally in a browser. Exports SVG, PNG, JPG.
graphite.rs
November 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
they ve claimed they re serious about "free forever" (the AI generation is not free).

they have an income stream from Canva subscriptions and claim it will be enough to maintain the software. Some people might even get it for the Ai stuff too.

it's fair to be cautious about it
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Reposted by David Mas-Ponte
Been a fan since v1 so I’ll give v3 a try, too. I liked how easy it was to switch from adobe products. And so far I’ve never missed any feature. Any estimates how much academia funnels into adobe per year?
October 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
* I have not tested this version of affinity (V3) yet, but based on my V1 expirience, the features it had were already sufficient for most academic needs for slides/figure composing.
October 31, 2025 at 6:42 AM
the drone view looks sick but from the inside they just look like a bunch of half-sized silos, victory point for brutalism here
October 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
awesome! thanks! 👌
October 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
this is cool! always want to migrate to vs code for R but i keep going back to rstudio, is there a tutorial/guide on how to customize vs code to be as rstudio-like as possible
October 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
the link didn't copy well, i think this is the good one for reference

github.com/kundajelab/c...
October 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Sure, message is clearly better. I think, however, it's just optics, EU comission doesn't collect taxes so it has to "beg" for money to member states. Big difference with Trump that uses the spending cuts to "justify" for lower taxes (even if he does not really balance the sheets in the end).
August 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I think it's early to celebrate, still has to pass through Council, EU parliament and (some) local parliaments.

The same budget comes with 131 billion for defence, deeply unpopular in the south.

I hope i am wrong, but looks to me like a maximalist budget proposal that will inevitably get cut
August 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
"hairy-headed leafcutter ant" is also a badass name. well captured in the art 👏
July 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM