Worth reposting once a while. My version of the UX pyramid, a whiteboard picture from the 2.8 Code Quest workshop. Arrows point at what we needed to work on (more).

LF using AI for art in their PR is embarrassing, even more so because they don't respond to it (at all).

Vote for the new Euro notes. Totally option D for me.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/design-proposals.en.html

With the start of 2026 I will officially step down as chairman/CEO and move to a supervisory role. I wish Francesco and the new board members - Sergey, Dalai, Fiona - a lot of wisdom and success. I hope to enjoy more free time, but also look forward playing a humble role in shaping our free software for the next decade. Happy new year!

The Stallman Paradox. Food for thought about free/open source: https://paragraph.com/@holonic-horizons/the-stallman-paradox-how-web3-became-the-ultimate-open-source-theater

Happy 40th birthday to the Free Software Foundation! Donations welcome: https://www.fsf.org/

One of the projects I will work on in the coming period is to share Blender history info, also to create a 'source of truth' for all variations of Blender facts that go around.
Here is the official 1998 announcement that went out for the first public Blender (V1.21) release ever.

Evening walk with view on Ransdorp.

Starting a History of Blender exhibit in the office. Can easily fill more cabinets...
Top left: NeoGeo showreel that gave Blender its name!

Today in the Purmer polder.