the text on the buttons would select and leave this modal ux over the canvas. i couldn’t make it go away so i made icon buttons instead.

How is Quality Assurance (#QA) managed in #LibreOffice, and other free and open source software projects? Check out our latest podcast episode: https://peertube.opencloud.lu/w/8319cGkkH1xoY8Ho6TjSWk #foss #OpenSource

Question for the Mastodon Search Experts:
- Can someone tell me how we can search through the posts that we’ve starred?
- And the posts that we’ve bookmarked?
Thank you!

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Microsoft and CWA secure a tentative contract for 300+ ZeniMax QA workers after two years of negotiations—Microsoft’s first US union contract. #Microsoft #CWA #ZeniMax #Union #LaborRights #TechNews #QA #WorkersRights #GameDev #BreakingNews

I was reminded recently about the time I was asked to build a "comprehensive test suite" for PNG support in a product.

It turns out that despite PNG being a fairly simple specification, NOBODY implements the whole thing. Including libpng, the nominal "reference implementation".

But it's all pretty modular, so I cranked out a fairly simple C program that spit out every possible combination of chunk types, and every pixel format, from 1-bit to 32-bit, with every kind of representation including grayscale, true color, and indexed.

I ran it, and ended up with a few hundreds of thousands of test files, about half of which crashed our product. And I hadn't even gotten around to the "fuzzing" part of the test suite, yet.

The request was quickly dialed back to "a test suite for a reasonable subset of the PNG spec", where "reasonable" included maximum 1kx1k dimensions, true-color and 256-colored index, and no images greater than 8-bit depth.

I am looking for new role ! Contact me if you are interested in services from highly qualified software engineer around #PHP, #Docker, #QA and CI/CD, that is dedicated and cares about delivering value .

DMs are open + greg [at] codito [dot] dev.

https://blog.codito.dev/2025/05/open-to-work/

A Comprehensive Framework For Evaluating The Quality Of Street View Imagery
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.103094 <-- shared paper
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“HIGHLIGHTS
• [They] propose the first comprehensive quality framework for street view imagery.
• Framework comprises 48 quality elements and may be applied to other image datasets.
• [They] implement partial evaluation for data in 9 cities, exposing varying quality.
• The implementation is released open-source and can be applied to other locations.
• [They] provide an overdue definition of street view imagery..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #streetlevelimagery #Crowdsourcing #QualityAssessmentFramework #Heterogeneity #imagery #dataquality #metrics #QA #urban #cities #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #StreetView #Google #Mapillary #KartaView #commercial #crowsourced #opendata #consistency #standards #specifications #metadata #accuracy #precision #spatiotemporal #terrestrial #assessment

In 2024, #LibreOffice's Quality Assurance community helped to resolve reported issues with the software and keep it strong: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/12/libreoffice-quality-assurance-qa-in-2024-tdfs-annual-report/ #OpenSource #freesoftware #qa

Sprunki Game – Question & Answer

Q: Is Sprunki Game similar to Incredibox?
A: Yes, Sprunki Game is significantly influenced by Incredibox, with a similar drag-and-drop beat mixing functionality. However, Sprunki Game distinguishes itself with "cute vs. scary" themes and a more whimsical graphic design.

Get ready to play https://sprunki-game.io and start to discover the difference.

Those yachts don't buy themselves!

I'm gonna be giving a talk during Málaga's indie dev fair Guadalindie!

The talk will be about QA for indie gamedev, with a focus on things you can do for free and inexpensive resources

Let's meet if you're going!
https://guadalindie.com/

(I just realized I didn't share this on Mastodon! )

The trees summarize the nights' narratives perfectly.