Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects

I’ve noticed that more and more projects are using things like Slack as the chat medium for their open source projects. In the past couple of days alone, I’ve been directed to Slack for Babel and Bootstrap. I’d like to try and curb this phenomenon before it takes off any more.

Slack…

The last one is a real stinker. Slack is not a tool built...

Comment on Particle tracking plugins file formats and converter by katpyxa

In reply to Manu.

Hello Manu,

no, unfortunately I didn’t do that, sorry.

The best way to get answers on Trackmate’s XML format is to contact author, Jean Yves Tinevez (see here http://fiji.sc/User:JeanYvesTinevez) or check the source code of Trackmate, looking for “import” function here
https://github.com/fiji/TrackMate/tree/master/src/main/java/fiji/plugin/trackmate/io

Cheers,
Eugene

Comment on Particle tracking plugins file formats and converter by Manu

Hello, I am interested in importing data from MTrackJ to Trackmate and so I must convert the mdf files from MTrackJ to xml for Trackmate. You included a java script to go from xml to mdf, is there a script to due the oppisite? (go from mdf to xml)

I’m sure I can write a script to save the track info of an mdf file saved as an xml but I’m not sure what headers and source element Trackmate looks for in an xml file.

Any help would be much appreciated!

– Manu

2015-09-23

Kai and Anselm gave an interview about suckless.org on Randal Schwartz's FLOSS Weekly show

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st 0.6 released: download

osu!web - WebGL & Web Audio

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=qdaZnQQAPqQ

I’ve taken a liking to a video game called osu! over the past few months. It’s a rhythm game where you use move your mouse to circles that appear with the beat, and click (or press a key) at the right time. It looks something like this:

The key of this game is that the “beatmaps” (a song plus notes to hit) are user-submitted. There are thousands of them, and the difficulty curve is very long - I’ve been playing for 10 months and I’m only maybe 70% of the way up the difficulty curve. It’s also a competitive game, which leads to a lot more fun, where...