Cory Doctorow on Nostr: A useful hack! For 10,000,000 years, I've had a scan of my sig on my computer. When I ...
A useful hack!
For 10,000,000 years, I've had a scan of my sig on my computer. When I get sent a form for a signature, I open it in the GIMP, open the signature JPG, paste the latter into the former, set the layer to "multiply" and align it.
This morning, I pasted that same JPG as a *brush*. Now I just select that brush and click once on the signature line!
This is incredibly obvious, but it never occurred to me, and maybe it's useful for you, too.
Published at
2026-07-23 15:18:44 UTCEvent JSON
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