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jarek-foksa

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About jarek-foksa

I'm the developer of boxy-svg.com and xel-toolkit.org.

Recent public activity

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    > General agents (OpenClaw, ...) started working even later than that. There is nothing special about the OpenClaw thing other than the enormous astroturfing campaign that benefite…

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    Comment #47672846

    > the company actually is ethical and safety conscious everywhere I wonder what Anthropic tries to achieve by spreading such blatant lies with their bot accounts. I'm definitely no…

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    Comment #47100409

    LinkedIn support will also blatantly lie to you when you ask them whether Persona is GDPR compliant and needed to activate your account. Last year I was trying to setup a business …

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    Comment #47065019

    How much time did it take you to build it? For the past several years I have been working full time on an SVG editor myself ( https://boxy-svg.com ) and I get a bit anxious when I …

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    Comment #46862945

    Customers simply don't care. I don't recall a single complain about RAM or disk usage of my Electron-based app to be reported in the past 10 years. You will be outcompeted if you w…

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    Comment #44983928

    GodSVG: https://www.godsvg.com/ Boxy SVG: https://boxy-svg.com/#demo-elements Repath Studio: https://repath.studio/ MacSVG: http://macsvg.org

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    Comment #43938878

    > In SVG handling of clip paths is quite cumbersome and not very intuitive. Modern web browsers now support "clip-path" CSS property with inline/shorthand values which are much mor…

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    Comment #43938608

    "Vectorize" generator in Boxy SVG also uses imagetracerjs under the hood, you can check the online demo here: https://boxy-svg.com/#demo-tracing I think Inkscape still uses Potrace…

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    Comment #43938408

    If I were to build a web-based vector graphics editor from scratch today, I would make it work internally with a "sane" subset of SVG such as SVG Micro [1]. This way you get a fast…

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    Comment #43672579

    From the table of contents this looks like a book sponsored by and written to promote GreenSock. Which would be fine if the title was not misleading. Apparently SMIL is mentioned o…

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    Comment #43672362

    Inkscape is the only major vector graphics editor that relies on SVG as its native file format. Most other apps are merely allowing you to import/export SVG files which is often a …

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    Comment #43672094

    Entities seem to be resolved at parse time, so they are more like a preprocessor directives. is much more powerful as all instances are "live" and updated dynamically when you chan…

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    Comment #43643047

    For me the biggest missing block is the text search API. It's ridiculous that you can't add a basic search input to your Firebase-based website unless you use TypeSense, Algolia or…

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    Comment #41879549

    I'm working on Boxy SVG which combines vector drawing and animation tools: https://boxy-svg.com

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    Comment #41103684

    Fragment identifiers in "src" attribute seem to be supported by all modern browsers, but now I realized my example was wrong - you can reference elements, but not elements directly…

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    Comment #41100898

    Boxy SVG editor comes with built-in support for creation and editing of SVG icon sprites. You can play with a sample SVG sprite on https://boxy-svg.com/#demo-symbols . Individual i…