I fixed this morning a huge memory leak in the conky-lua-colors. Last week I’ve spotted that the conky process memory usage was slowly increasing. After 2 days it was up to 800Mo…

Basically the problem was, when a cairo pattern was created :

local pattern = cairo_pattern_create_radial (0, 0, r - w, 0, 0, r)
cairo_pattern_add_color_stop_rgba (pattern, 0, unpack_rgb(color, .9))
cairo_pattern_add_color_stop_rgba (pattern, 1, unpack_rgb(color, .4))
cairo_set_source(cr, pattern)

It was not destroyed afterwards. Simply adding a :

cairo_pattern_destroy(pattern)

solved the problem.

So if you installed my conkyrc, you should quickly update the bananana.lua file.

Have fun

A slightly different post this time, but I wanted to share what I’ve been playing around with these previous days.

I started learning lua about a month ago and I’ve done several tests app with gtk, gdk, cairo and pango bindings.

Then I found out that conky has a compilation flag enabling cairo bindings in lua! So I installed this conky-lua aur package for Archlinux (which is BTW a really cool distribution I’ve been using for about a year now) and started hacking some conkyrc I’ve found on the web.

Conky-lua-colors

Here’s what I’ve done, nearly from scratch, in full lua cairo :

conky-lua-colors

My desktop now, (running awesome wm, a really neat tiling window manager BTW) :

Awesome desktop with conky-lua-colors

I want this on my pc!

No problem, first get a conky with lua bindings enabled, as I said there is the conky-lua aur package for Archlinux, you could try the conky-all if you are using ubuntu or just compile it yourself with –enable-lua configure option.

Next go to my github and clone the repo (you might want to install git) :

git clone git://github.com/paradoxxxzero/conky-lua-colors.git ~/.conky-lua-colors

Finally launch it with :

conky -c ~/.conky-lua-colors/.conkyrc

Have fun with it!

It’s been quite sometime since my last post, so here’s the news:

imgur the world 2.0

imgur the world

imgur the world is now in version 2.0, adds right click context menu for direct uploads! Thanks to the 3,000+ users.

More info: http://paradoxxxzero.tk/imgur-the-world/

Download: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/naicjelodgogagjjkgepdkjecopegkag

reddit HD

reddit HD

Introducing this reddit extension I made recently to improve reddit visual comfort.

More info: http://paradoxxxzero.tk/reddit-hd/

Download: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/moobcofpkchikjhkiclhchfmgmecolck

reddit platinum

reddit platinum

Introducing this other reddit extension which provides a mouseless reddit navigation.

More info: http://paradoxxxzero.tk/reddit-platinum/

Download: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lgdabokohpkanioglmfikbhclpknccla

As you can see I made several chrome extensions recently, but I have been working on some other things recently like a pang / buster bros / pomping world clone in HTML5 canvas. But that’s for another day, stay tuned!

A rotating tesseract

Today I will publicly release anakata.tk, my 4D mesh renderer made in javascript / canvas :

anakata is a full javascript / canvas, 4D mesh renderer. Yes 4D!

It uses the newest bleeding edge web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, NoSql, …) therefore it requires a good and fast up to date browser (like Google Chrome).

What is it about ?

ana kata has been made to easily view animated 4D shapes and create your own.

It doesn’t require you to download or install any application, all the work is done in your browser.

You can save your creations in local and publish them on the intertubes.

You can download others creations and rate them.

Why anakata ?

Ana and Kata are the two cardinal directions in 4D, just like up and down or right and left.

What now ?

Go to anakata.tk and enjoy the 4D world !

I recently upgraded to wp 3.0 and today I must say I don’t have enough motivation to maintain my old theme.

So I switched to a great one made by mono-lab named piano black.

Piano black

I also updated my pages for my projects, you can access them on the top of the page.

Yes I know it’s the third time, but this time there’s a good reason.

I found a free DNS TLD service ! Now this site is simply available at

http://paradoxxxzero.tk/

If you want a free TLD DNS hosting check :

Dot tk

The amount of DNS is unlimited, it gave me some funny ideas I will keep you informed ^^

NB : It’s free and unlimited but you must have 25 visitors every 90 days (which is not really a problem since bots are counted in…)

Happy new year everyone !

I’ve just released my first Google Chrome extension ! \o/

imgur

You can find it here :

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/naicjelodgogagjjkgepdkjecopegkag

Imgur is THE best image hosting service and so this extension allows you to re-host any image of the intertube to obtain a shorter url and a faster and longer hosting.

All reactions / problems / questions goes to the comments bellow  this post: http://paradoxxxzero.tk/imgur-the-world/

(PS: Yes my blog is now in english and I will do my best to stay understandable…)