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Screenshot Software - History

Going through some historical articles on the web, I found an interesting MacOS screenshot marking software, one of the older ones, probably not available anymore, but the websit is still there, along with use cases video:
https://flyingmeat.com/flysketch/
https://flyingmeat.com/flysketch/images/highlight-capture-1.5.mp4
Its logic is not quite the same as logic of today's screenshot marking software. For historical or technical reasons, it doesn't take a screenshot first and then mark it on the image.
It's more like a drawing board tool that you can draw on and mark up. Then, ajust the transparency of the drawing board and align it to where you want to take a screenshot. The screenshot will merge the drawing and the image behind it.
Compared to today's screenshot software, it is more rudimentary. But it records the history of software development.
2025-04-27 16:48:36+08:00

The Lost Mistress

My favorite English poem is:
The Lost Mistress by Robert Browning
"
All’s over, then: does truth sound bitter
As one at first believes?
Hark, ’tis the sparrows’ good-night twitter
About your cottage eaves!
And the leaf-buds on the vine are woolly,
I noticed that, today;
One day more bursts them open fully
– You know the red turns grey.
Tomorrow we meet the same then, dearest?
May I take your hand in mine?
Mere friends are we, – well, friends the merest
Keep much that I resign:
For each glance of the eye so bright and black,
Though I keep with heart’s endeavor, –
Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back,
Though it stay in my soul for ever! –
Yet I will but say what mere friends say,
Or only a thought stronger;
I will hold your hand but as long as all may,
Or so very little longer!
"
2025-04-10 17:25:24+08:00