This is the spitting image of the "FontStruct" tool, which I have fond memories of! I wonder if there was some overlap.

I second the sentiments here about typography nerds. This is very very cool.

Huh, this sounds exactly like what they had been doing with the OfficeClickToRun.exe, which would update in the background and keep parts of Office preloaded so it would launch quickly.

I can't find anything explaining what differs between this, but I can find people comparing Edge's "Startup Boost" feature of the same name to the long-standing OfficeClickToRun.exe ( e.g. here https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/22778/bms-crashes-after-t... )

I haven't used Windows in three years or Office in seven so it's possible they removed OfficeClickToRun.exe since 2022 and are reintroducing it.

Yes, I'm talking about the "OfficeClickToRun.exe" that would run in the background, keeping big parts of the software preloaded. It would do things like update automatically in the background as well.

They have done that for at least ten years, I believe, with "Click to Run".

Every time Blender has a new update, I scroll and I'm amazed by how much is in it. Then I realize my scrollbar is only halfway through.

Radial tiling my beloved, and a seemingly far more straightforward array modifier <3 Faster volume scattering for non-homogenous volumes.

For those wondering "where the AI is", the new Convolve Node might be it :) Convolutions are a pretty generic signal processing operation (Hadamard product) which are also used in neural networks which work with images. Realistically though, this will be mostly useful for wonky hand-crafted blurs.

The new sequencer looks fantastic, too. I always went to DaVinci Resolve but I might be able to go full blender. Compositor modifiers in the sequencer is also very welcome.

This is incredible for me.