Week 11 recap - Final Stretch

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As we near the end of GSOC, I'm wrapping things up and getting the code ready for the final review. There's still a rare edge case that happens here and there but overall the new pixel-perfect feature works pretty well and will be usable for pixel art. Right now, the focus is to finish some UI changes and integrate this new option with a good user experience. Here's an example of the brush in action demonstrated by my mentor Emmett:

To conclude, I learned a lot from this experience and I feel more equipped in making more/better contributions now that I've worked on a bigger more complex task like making a pixel-perfect tool. Although the pace at which I wrote actual meaningful code was quite slow, I learned that most of the work was actually just researching and trying to understand how existing code worked.