GeekAndDad

GeekAndDad, 19 days ago

@schwa Neat! What light is that?

GeekAndDad, 19 days ago

@schwa Thank you. I have negative to scan and my unused Epson V370 scanner has some kind of fogging on the inside surface of the glass so I have to figure something else out (apparently the anti-reflective coating they used on them degrades with time - even in storage :-/ ).

GeekAndDad, 19 days ago

@pixel @schwa I do feel like there are benefits to that though (except documenting action environments like sports or whatever). Slow down, look carefully, and compose the shot.

GeekAndDad, 19 days ago

@schwa @pixel I do not, but that is included in “action environments” :-)

GeekAndDad, 20 days ago

@schwa 😂

notice it wasn’t “yesterday”… there’s still time to slide backwards 😜

GeekAndDad, 20 days ago

@dxzdb @rafa @bigzaphod I use a nice Hakko. Works well. I’m not interested in a programmable battery operated pencil because I don’t need to play Doom on my soldering iron and battery powered stuff lasts less long than plug into the wall in my experience.

This one: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1204

Plus more tips and flux and so on.

Can spend more on fancier ones but this well enough for me.

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@schwa Art!

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@schwa Looks nice and grainy :)

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@pixel Would “=\n” work?

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@pixel Guessing the equal signs are different Unicode than you are typing into the source.

Also wondering about a nonbreaking space or something between the = and the newline.

Only other idea is escaping the “=“ (shouldn’t need to that I’m aware of but ¯_(ツ)_/¯). So:

“=\n”

But that seems very weird.

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@pixel What value are you using for encoding:?

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@pixel I was going to recommend looking at it in BBedit :)

Possible the editor is converting the character (normalizing it or something?) or the clipboard isn’t transferring it without conversion.

I’d next hexdump the file and look at the bytes.

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@pixel oh doh!

separatedBy: takes a CharacterSet, not a string constant.

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@pixel oh, no, there’s another definition in the protocol on a generic T. my bad.

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@pixel Using your test file gist pasted into BBEdit doc works for me.

 let s = try String(contentsOfFile: "/Users/dad/Downloads/testfile.txt",  
 encoding: .utf8)  
 let lines = s.components(separatedBy: "=\n")  
 print( "\(lines.count)")  

-> 4

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@pixel In Xcode Version 15.2 because macOS 13.6.6 on this M1 MBP.

I’m in a macOS SwiftUI app because that was the easiest to do a quick test in for me,
so import SwiftUI at the top.

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@pixel Just for giggles, try changing to NSString?

// let s = try NSString(contentsOfFile: "/Users/dad/Downloads/testfile.txt",  
// encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)

and the rest?

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@krzyzanowskim @pixel he did here: https://social.pixels.pizza/@pixel/112469776364398726

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@krzyzanowskim What Xcode/Swift are you using? (15.2, Swift 5.9.2 here).

Starting to wonder if @pixel is on an alpha Xcode or something weird like that…

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@pixel Any luck with this?

GeekAndDad, 22 days ago

@bigzaphod There are a number of creative ideas to find something in the middle before ordering a PCB (though that’s getting a lot easier and cheaper according to folks I follow who do it regularly).

Some examples: https://www.crowdsupply.com/ben-wang/perf-2

But this is the most amazing one (they’re working on a new version with improvements):

https://github.com/Architeuthis-Flux/Jumperless

GeekAndDad, 23 days ago

@schwa Had to go read what this was and read that it was built in to view cameras since the early days of photography and came to smaller format cameras in the 1960s.

So now I’m curious if you have a lens for a DSLR you are using or if this is a digital effect.

Thanks for introducing me to a new-to-me photographic thing!

GeekAndDad, 23 days ago

@schwa LOL - Looks like you dropped and broke it! that’s indeed “wild” looking.

Sounds like a fun thing to play with.

Thanks.