With Microsoft and Apple both embracing AI with too much enthusiasm, and Windows and macOS seeming to get worse and worse with usability issues, upsells, and bugs, it's contributing to a feeling in me that tech is in a very dark period. I've decided that I'm going to actively try to switch to Linux.

#OpenFL devlog: How I implemented the scale9Grid property. It is sometimes called 9-slice scaling, but Flash doesn't just slice it up display objects into 9 bitmaps. It adjusts the placement of points on the vector shapes, which leads nicer bitmap/gradient fills.
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Introducing hunter, a CLI file watcher for Haxe.

haxelib run hunter "haxe compile.hxml" ./src/

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