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A tool built for art that can be used by artists and developers. Sharing the idea and the code that makes it.
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Why not make a pixel art modifier so they become like terrain or game assets? And here is what I came up with. You build the pixel art as you wish. Then you modify it so it becomes a design.

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Design a historian schema for Unified Namespace architectures. Learn why narrow tables, surrogate keys, and relational namespaces outperform wide models.
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Most teams design the historian first and connect it to a Unified Namespace later. This article argues the reverse: the UNS owns identity, so it should dictate the historian schema. That means storing tag identity in a relational namespace table with surrogate keys and keeping history in a narrow hypertable. The result: tag renames, hierarchy changes, and churn happen without rewriting history.

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Software QA rarely gets the spotlight, but Boris Vasilev’s work shows why quality engineering is central to reliable systems.
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Software QA rarely gets the spotlight, but Boris Vasilev’s work shows why quality engineering is central to reliable systems.