I started messing around with computers as a kid writing silly little "games" with Command Prompt. I was Scratch.
As I grew older, learned a lot of the wizardry behind Scratch and saw almost everything the platform had to offer, I decided to expand my work out into the real-world and create new tools and extensions based around the original concepts of Scratch that other people might find useful.
- Scratch Addons - Scratch editor and website. I have created the Multi-row backpack addon and am currently working on a new addon to copy blocks from the editor in text form.
- Doko Demo Issyo (PSP) Fan Translation - An attempt to replace all text in the Japanese game Doko Demo Issyo with an accurate English translation. This is still in early progress and is only for the PSP remake released in 2004.
All of these are all free/open source software. I found them quite easy to use and there are plenty of tutorials and documentation out there if you want to try them too.
| Usage | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Web browser | LibreWolf/Ungoogled Chromium + uBlock Origin | Get rid of invasive ads and tracking from companies like Google and Facebook while still having the same look and feel as the most popular browsers you already know. Other browsers like Chrome/Opera/Vivaldi/Brave are based on Chromium still allow most tracking with their own stuff built in. |
| Code editor | VSCodium | A nice fork of Microsoft Visual Studio Code maintained by the community. It gets rid of some questionable telemetry |
| Image editing | GIMP | GNU image manipulation program or "the GIMP" as all the cool kids once called it. A completely free alternative to big brand image editing software with Layers, transparency, custom brushes and stamps, and many other things. I have been using this since my first computer running Windows XP. |
| Pixel Art | Aseprite/LibreSprite | The entire editor. LibreSprite is an older version before Aseprite changed to paid/proprietary licensing, with some extra things added to it documented on their website. |
| Sequencer | pxtone collage/collab | A video game music composition software created by Pixel, the game developer behind Ikachan and Cave Story. It's like playing a piano automatically through your computer and you can make it sound like any instrument or .wav file you want. |
| Audio editing | Audacity | A more general purpose and well known sound editor. Crop sounds, add effects with the menus at the top, make multiple tracks with different files. |
| Video editing | Kdenlive | An almost-professional video editor made by KDE. It supports video files, images, music, different tracks and has many effects and animation tools built in. I might make YouTube videos with this some day. |
| Operating system | Fedora Linux | Got tired of Windows 11's bloated in-your-face UI shoving ads for other Microsoft products down my throat and fully switched to Fedora Workstation around mid-2024. I have also messed with Mint, xubuntu and MX Linux in the past on a spare laptop. |
I will probably move all this stuff to my website if I ever stop procrastinating and figure out how to fix some CSS stylesheet issues.
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