This one debugging trick really saves me time. Add something to your framework that will only trigger a debug when you are holding down the pause key. That makes it so easy to target what is happening at just the right time. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

When I can't enter a quote into text field, I know that site is a target for a SQL injection attack. My hat will always be white, so it pains me to see how fragile security is because corporate culture tends to hire and promote people who don't wear a hat. #indiedev #buildinpublic #solodev

Okay! Final patch and I think everything is polished. Now to working on a new feature again. If you find any problems, please post it on here. This is what building in public is all about! Enjoying the journey of creation together. Warp speed! #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

That bug somehow came out of nowhere. Did a browser update reveal it? Problem was I had the text content on the text path AND the text element. It didn't double before and I haven't touched that code. Wild. But hey, it ain't the bugs, it's what you do about them! #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🚧 Speaking of bugs! In that last post, the azimuth/tilt numbers on the bottom were doubled. Fixed! It's amazing what we miss sometimes. That is why unit tests are so important. Maybe someday we can use AI to unit test UIs like this. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🚧 Fixed blur in plastic shader. The blur has to happen AFTER the plastic effect, not before! MUCH nicer results. I post bug fixes to remind you that, when you follow me, you're following an actual human, making mistakes, and enjoying the process of fixing them. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🚧 The bug where, when changing saturation or lightness to 0 or 1 losing the hue is fixed. I already had a limiter in there to ensure it didn't fully hit 0 or 1, but it wasn't large enough. Easy fix. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Here's a 4K version of the previous spooky wallpaper. Last one was 720p. This one is spookier in higher resolution. Mwahahahahahahaha! 🦇 #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Tis the season for a spooky wallpaper. 👻 I'm really glad I added Image Adjustments to gradient. Turns out, it has been pretty useful. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Created myself a custom phone wallpaper and it looks great. All I had to do was save it to cloud photos. I could easily make a whole wallpaper site from the current functionality. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🆕 Size presets for gradient tool. Now, you can easily switch between your custom resolution, 720p, 1080p, 4K, and phone resolution for that wallpaper site you're itching to make! #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

It may be the new thing to use an export const SomethingUtil = { instead of an export class SomethingUtil { with static members in Typescript for namespacing. But, if you choose to do that, some tools are gonna take their ball and go home. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🚧 Fixed bug with gradient slider and performance on color sliders. If you ran into an issue with it not grabbing the gradient handle properly, well, it's now a distant memory! #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Gradient of the night. It's excessively warm. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Palette of the night. Reminds me of raisins. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Color extraction and image enhancement of the night. Edgar J. Kaufmann House Wright, Frank Lloyd (he was born just a couple hours drive from me!) #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🆕 GAME DEVS: Ahead Sheep can now create advanced LUTs to make your games feel unique. You can choose from 3 to 8 bits and you can even tweak them with the image enhancements tool! They can also reflect lighting conditions and color blindness. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Gradient of the evening. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🆕 Mix mode dialog shows without obscuring image. Now, when you pick a mix mode, you can see how it affects the image in real-time. 🤓 One of the benefits of making your own web framework is that you can do things like this. No limitations = no excuses! #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

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Another gradient of the night. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Palette of the night. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Image enhancement and color extraction of the night. Lloyd J. Harriss Pies Leutze, Emanuel, 1816-1868, artist #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Gradient of the night. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🆕 Overcame one of the weaknesses of the tool: figuring out where to even start! Now, there is an ever present color bar beneath the tiles so that you don't have to open or keep track of the color group. Also, Color and Palette are nearer to the top. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

just a lil early morning i slept for too many hours drawing, gradient backround made in the cool tool over at aheadsheep.com by @aheadsheep.bsky.social (sorry if tagging is obnox)

🆕 Image size and zoom shows beneath or above the image depending on available space. Some performance fixes and other minor bug fixes. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🚧 Noticed this morning that the warp points and center point was not in the right place when changing scale. Fixed. Everything is where it ought to be now. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Late night image enhancement and color extraction. "Andy Warhol [polaroid; polavision]" Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer 1977 #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Late night gradient. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🚧If you start dragging elsewhere off the color focus region handles, it will no longer start a new region. This is because, when in touch mode, pinching would sometimes start a new region unintentionally. Only handles can drag now. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

⭕The app no longer remembers the image between visits. For large, complex images, it would slow down the load process too much. The app already honored cookie settings for privacy, yet this also enhances privacy as well. Sometimes, it is best to remove a feature. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🆕The app is too extensive to work on a phone, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful. For small displays, you can now snap images and extract colors from your environment (or your handsome selfie, as shown here) for use later when you have a desktop or tablet handy. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Really late night/early morning gradient because I can't stop messing around with the interface. I've made my own biggest distraction. 😯 #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🆕Box blur. You can now choose Gaussian and Box blur for image post effects. For fun, I wanted to do a feature I can finish in 30 minutes and this one didn't disappoint because the kernel is pretty easy to create. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Revisiting the theme of an old post with some new tweaks using new features. If I had lost this disk, would I be subject to immediate de-resolution? I don't think so because my coding is all in the wrist. Okay, I'll stop now. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Man... I mean, Sheep... I've had some productive days over the last year and a half, but today definitely wins the #1 spot.

It always seems this time of year Debug Duck stares at me. Knowing. He knows. He knows all my bugs. Judging. Weighing the fate of my code. The eyes. Those cold, orbs of darkness. I can't scream. I'm too frozen. I... must... code... #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🆕Inspired by a post from @pekkavaa.bsky.social , Ahead Sheep now has a Luma tool so that you can modify the weights. Adjusting the weights controls how the entire tool computes color luminance. It's a pro tool feature those in the know will appreciate. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Today's color extraction/image enhancement. Made this modern picture look like 60s photo style by adding a little soft blur, filmic curve, noise grain, HDR, vignette. "Fancy velvet blue chairs at the table with plates of food in a restaurant" by Drazen Nesic #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Let's not forget today's palette! The original purpose of this tool was to generate palettes and it is still it's beating heart, which is why it can do so many conversions and color blindness simulations. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

A gradient for today. Chillin', p̶l̶a̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶, er, "testing" the new features. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🆕Add some wrinkle to your crinkle with the new Turbulence controls in plastic view. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

It would feel so lonely here without them. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

DON'T PRESS THE BIG RED BUTTON. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... You pushed it, didn't you? ... ... I know you heard me. ... ... I used caps lock and everything. ... ... You just couldn't resist, could you? ... ... I'm... ... ... ... ... Proud of you. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

🆕Added Image Adjustments to Gradient workspace so you can tune the output. Also, because I could. Engineers like to do things because we can. Like AI. And, unlike AI, my tool won't destroy humanity. Probably. Well, let's spitball and say 70%. Ish. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

Loving the new puzzle rating system on chess.com (not sponsored). I have to play on extra hard mode to get ahead and, sure, I derp most of the puzzles, but it's a wholesome derp, the fragrant kind Grandma used to cook at Thanksgiving. (Is that a hint of cinnamon?)

Those who saw my tool a year ago would be surprised to see it now. While it evolves a bit on its own, this kind of thing has been part of my vision for the tool from the beginning. This is a far bigger vision in process and I intend to be as defiantly disruptive as my skills will allow.

And remember: with mix modes, you can do some unique things with post image effects. Like, maybe use difference instead for plastic and lighter luma for bloom? There are techniques hidden there to unlock yet unseen by designers. #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev

With great power comes great UI complexity. But, now, you have more control over whether the options are dialed up to 11 or not with collapsible sections. Because, sometimes, you just don't need to see all the sliders. 👀 #buildinpublic #indiedev #solodev