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This is a documentation hub for various Open Ground projects and clients. Quick and easy information helps everyone.
As Orwell said, “Some ideas are so stupid only intellectuals believe them”
Projects & Notes
Projects
- Bluetone Fuel Oil - T-shirt design project
- Krey Pure Lard - T-shirt design project
- Samurai BMX Design - T-shirt project
- Rolling Bar Project - Project to refactor a bar I have
- Laser Cut Model Buildings Project
- Laser Cut Hooks Project
- Air Compressor Box
- French Cleat Caddies
- Laser Cut Clocks
- Play-Table Printed World
- Device Station - Charging station
Other Notes and Article Ideas
- Why I've abandoned Xara
- Feeling-Driven Development
- Creative Arcade Builds
- Japan Pics
- Rice Field video
- Biking with Andrew
- St. Louis Hikes
- UX design using free software
- Dropping Sugar
- Habits
- How Die Cuts work - can you make your own?
- getting shape made
- positioning jig - look up that woodworking video of that guy who did the rotate jig for the CNC
- Top 10 favorite printing substrates
- SEO in 2018 - https://www.gotchseo.com/seo-strategy/
- Design Systems AKA CSS Frameworks
- Swiss Army Knives - Victorinox
- Materials - List of interesting materials
- Redmine for bug reporting
UX & Design
This section should be a jumping off point to all the UX and design stuff in a category to keep track of.
Design Systems & Frameworks
- Bootstrap (5.2)- https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.2/examples/
- Material - https://m3.material.io/components
- Materialize - https://materializecss.com/
- Carbon (IBM) - https://carbondesignsystem.com/components/overview/
- Fluent (Microsoft) - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fluentui#/controls/web
- Ant - https://ant.design/
- Evergreen - https://evergreen.segment.com/components
- Jetbrains
- Primer CSS - https://primer.style/
- Troxler's List of CSS frameworks - https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks
UX Software
- Penpot - Penpot https://penpot.app
- Quant-UX - https://quant-ux.com - (open source!)
- UIzard - https://uizard.io/
- Lunacy - https://icons8.com/lunacy
- Diagrams.net - https://app.diagrams.net/
- Framer - https://www.framer.com/
- Principle - (for mac) - https://principleformac.com/
- Protopie - https://www.protopie.io/
- Origami Studio (Mac) - https://origami.design/
- Fluid UI - https://www.fluidui.com/
- Moqups - https://moqups.com/
- Vectr - (maybe not) - https://vectr.com/
Client Site Notes
Computer / Technical Information
Blender 3D Modeling, Materials and Animation
- Aligning Vertices Scale Zero - Use scale zero to put vertices on same level
- Procesural chainlinks using arrays, fit to curve, object offset - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GQzWLY0jPY
- Blender Units - Changing units from metric to imperial feet inches
Adobe AfterEffects
AfterEffects is definitely the industry standard for 2D animation. But we need more alternatives
- AfterEffects Sequence Layers - how to put all the layers in a comp into automatic sequence
- Autograph by LeftAngle is best known Aftereffects Alternative - https://www.left-angle.com/#page=95
- Calvary - https://cavalry.scenegroup.co/
- Moho - https://moho.lostmarble.com/
- Unreal Motion Design - https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/motion-design-in-unreal-engine
- Toonboom Harmony - https://www.toonboom.com/products/harmony
- Cartoon Animator 5 - https://www.reallusion.com/cartoon-animator/
- Fable Animator - https://www.fable.app/motion
- OpenToonz - https://opentoonz.github.io/e/
- Enve (dead FOSS proj) - https://github.com/MaurycyLiebner/enve/
- Blender For Artists Build - https://www.bforartists.de/
- BlackMagic Fusion - https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion
- Krita Animation - https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/animation.html
- Procreate Dreams - https://procreate.com/dreams
- Tumult Hype - https://tumult.com/hype/
- Clip Studio Paint (has animation feature(s) - https://www.clipstudio.net/en/functions/#main_02
- Toonsquid for iPad - https://toonsquid.com/
- SpiritApp for Mac - https://spiritapp.io/
- TVPaint for Windows - https://tvpaint.com/en/blog/install-tvpaint-animation
Content Management Systems
WordPress
- Creating Photo Galleries (NextGen Gallery Plugins)
- Show 5 Recent Blog Posts On the static front page
- Replacing images with Media Replace (plugin)
- Migrating WordPress from one server to another
Joomla
- Configuring Email Clients (e.g. Outlook, Thunderbird, iPhone)
- XAMPP SendMail for Testing Forms - You can enable localhost XAMPP to send emails!
Graphics
- Make Web Banners with LibreOffice Draw - How to make web graphics or banners of exact size for your website
Open Ground
Web Development Tips, Tasks, Resources
- Bootstrap Modals – look specifically at the frame modals
Web Browser Tips
- Firefox Extension - Change Hosts
Proprietary
Games Books Music Movies
- Top Retro Game Lists - For Arcade Builds
Woodworking, Crafting, Hardware
- Disc Binding System - (Levenger Circa, Staples Arc, Office Depot Tul) binder discs
- Wipe Varnish Shootout - Wipe-on varnish tests from the Wood Whisperer
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