Roland Dreger

Freier Grafikdesigner und Skripter in Wien

Roland Dreger boosted:
2025-05-25
User:
oh, you created a ~ directory in this project... That's supposed to be my home directory silly

Thought for 3 seconds

Assistant:
Oh no! 🤦 You're absolutely right! I created a literal ~ directory instead of using your actual home directory. Let me fix this immediately:

Listed 1 items in ~

Thought for 2 seconds

Assistant (terminal command):
rm -rf ~/

Stopped thinking
Roland Dreger boosted:
2025-05-25

ChatGPT's new dossier-from-your-chats feature is a huge change to how it works, and as a power user who tries to control all of the model's input I don't like it at all

“30 messages are good interaction quality (25%); 9 messages are bad interaction quality (7%)” simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/

Roland Dregerrolanddreger
2025-05-22

Wir sind das aller letzte.

Screenshot mit zwei Auswahlfeldern: Land/Region und Bundesland oder Region. Das Dropdown-Menü Land/Region ist geöffnet. Enthalten sind eine Liste mit alphabetisch sortierten Ländernamen. Nach Zentralafrikanische Republik kommt in der Liste Ägypten, Äquatorial-Guinea, Äthiopien und als letzter Auswahlpunkt Österreich.
Roland Dregerrolanddreger
2025-05-18

“Custom Metadata Panel” is a helpful extension for working with metadata in Adobe Bridge, Photoshop and Illustrator.

It allows you to create your own set of properties, here in the example for the metadata fields that can also be used in InDesign for the alternate text. And you can also insert fields for your own metadata.

More info: iptc.org/standards/photo-metad

Roland Dregerrolanddreger
2025-05-16

InCopy on the web is coming ... (currently in beta)

Screenshot of InCopy in Web in the Chrome browser during a presentation. A computer screen displays a digital document about choosing handmade pottery. The document includes images of pottery on shelves, a section titled "Why choose pottery?" with vases pictured below, and a section on supporting local artisans with a text block and a photo of two people wearing aprons. In the bottom left corner, there are two video call participants.Screenshot of InCopy in Web in the Chrome browser during a presentation. A computer screen displays a digital document about choosing handmade pottery. The document includes images of pottery on shelves, a section titled "Why choose pottery?" with vases pictured below, and a section on supporting local artisans with a text block and a photo of two people wearing aprons. In the bottom left corner, there are two video call participants.Screenshot of InDesign in Web during a presentation. A computer screen displaying a design program interface with a layout titled "How to Choose Good Handmade Pottery." The layout includes images of pottery on shelves, text sections about types of pottery, features to look for, care tips, and supporting local artisans. Two smaller video call windows at the bottom left show two men. Two red arrows pointing to the person icon.
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2025-05-16
Roland Dreger boosted:
2025-05-15

It was about time, wasn't it? 😅 👇

But now, with Firefox 138 all major browser engines support import attributes to import JSON from within your ECMAScript modules. 👇

✅ Chromium: 123+
✅ Safari: 17.2+
✅ Firefox: 138+ (released 2w ago)

PS. This syntax works in modern Node.js, too!

// Import Attributes
import data from "./resource.json" with { type: "json" };
Roland Dreger boosted:
2025-05-14

After being exclusive for a year, FDI Lettograph (based on the letterpress fonts of Berthold Signal) is now freely available ☞ fdi-type.de/fonts/lettograph/

FDI Lettograph. A complete digitization of Berthold’s Signal fonts from the 1930s.
Roland Dreger boosted:
2025-05-13

Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast? Now, the `contrast-color()` function in CSS does just that.

webkit.org/blog/16929/contrast

Roland Dreger boosted:
2025-05-12

Periodic reminder that zerowidthspace.me/ exists.

Roland Dregerrolanddreger
2025-05-11

@xmlarbyter Nach meinem Verständnis wird target="_blank" bei Fußnoten einfach ignoriert und bei Links nach »draußen« öffnen diese ohnehin im Browser, wird nicht benötig, stört aber auch nicht weiter. Aber beim span-Element resultiert es eben in diesem Validierungsfehler.

Roland Dregerrolanddreger
2025-05-11

InDesign 20.3.1: New bug in EPub export. For footnotes, a redundant span element with the attribute “target” is inserted, which does not belong here and results in a validation error.

Screenshot of Oxygen XML Editor with XML code and and and a red arrow pointing to a code part with wavy underlining: <span target="_blank">
Roland Dreger boosted:
2025-05-03
Roland Dreger boosted:
2025-05-01

The story of fixing #Voyager is absolutely amazing: youtube.com/watch?v=YcUycQoz0z

This team diagnosed and fixed a bug in an ancient system dead in the water, billions of miles away, without complete documentation (and what they did have had typos!), without reference hardware, without the software, without any software tooling, without access to the people who wrote the original system, and where a single mistake could brick the thing forever

Un-freaking-believable

Roland Dregerrolanddreger
2025-04-29

@polylogue Libre barcode EAN13 text, found. Thanks, I will give it a try.

Roland Dregerrolanddreger
2025-04-29

Does anyone have experience with the font JLCode128 (jltypes.com/de/barcode). I need to create EAN 13 codes automated in InDesign. Or are there alternative fonts?

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Ingwar PerowanowitschPerowinger94
2025-04-28

Obwohl nur 40% der Menschen dafür waren, machte Ljubljana 2007 die Innenstadt autofrei. Ladenbesitzer protestierten, Anwohner fürchteten um Parkplätze. Heute unterstützen 97% der Menschen das Vorhaben. Sie haben gesehen, wie schön es ohne Autos ist und wollen nicht mehr zurück❤️

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3sat :3sat:3sat@zdf.social
2025-04-27

Ja, es war wirklich "die Praktikantin". Sie hatte Spaß und wir finden es super. Happy Welt-Grafik-/Design-Tag! Der Tag erinnert an die Gründung des Grafik-Verbands "Icograda" am 27.4.1963 - heute das International Council of Design (ICoD).
#Dokutipp: 3sat.de/kultur/museums-check/m

#Grafik #Design #OnThisDay #Mediatheksperle #Archiv

Grafik. Zu sehen ist bunter, krakelig-pixeliger Text. Er lautet: "So würden unsere Sharepics aussehen, wenn wir keine Grafiker*innen hätten. Am 27, April ist Welt-Grafiker-Tag." Der Hintergrund ist gelb, der Text ungleichmäßig gesetzt.
Roland Dregerrolanddreger
2025-04-26

OpenCloud from Berlin (Apache-2.0 license) opencloud.eu/en

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