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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: profile picture
Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary:
@Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary:

Inkscape Programmer and Software Freedom Contractor. Graphics, art, computers, politics, ideas, science.

Pronouns: they/them
Politics: A socialist... well, a federated pro-social consensualist... er, or something like that.
Meme Immunity: Innate rebel, adaptive skeptic, and pro-humility
Culture: British, Northern, Industrialist, Riverfolk, Pro-Sustainability, Pie.

My avatar image is a cartoon cat in a bowler hat with a spanner and overalls working on a machine.

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Recent Notes

Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: profile picture
My emergency appendix surgery, CT scans and hospital stay cost me $360. This is extremely cheap for the USA. As a brit I'm both annoyed at having to pay anything at all and appalled by the thought that anyone else would have to pay (looks at insurance cover) 🤯 $6,320.... that I presume is a negotiated price too.

All's well that ends well I suppose.

Remember to support my work on Inkscape 😝

#healthCare
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Jeff Martin · 6w
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Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary: profile picture
I think there is a Dunning–Kruger like effect whereby the complexity of rewriting an open source project from scratch is vastly underestimated the less you know about the scope of the work.

You could make 80% of #inkscape in a couple of months of javascripting. But this is 80% of Inkscape's surface. Not actual depth.

Rewrite it all in #Qt? #React? #JS? #Rust? These are ideas aren't bad. But they are vast projects that would cost millions of dollars.

Related to: https://mastodon.uno/@maxdid/114691504835360868
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Niccolò Venerandi · 65w
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