emily

emily, 10 months ago to random

Weird emails I have sent: "hi, your site is confusing and bad, so I booked a thing not only on the wrong day, but approximately an entire month off, at the wrong convention. please fix or refund, thank you"

foone, 10 months ago to random

wow the autodesk fusion 360 API docs are interesting. it seems like they're trying to see how much documentation they can write without possibly being useful

hannah, 10 months ago to random

Every unskippable “why are you cancelling/unsubscribing/leaving this service?” questionnaire is an affront to my holy will as a human being. I simply choose it

emily, 10 months ago to random

Suddenly extremely conscious of the fact that, while paper comes from trees, I have literally never heard anyone get hipstery about "this is very fancy small-batch artisan paper from the finest aspen trees in Elsewhereland" like people might for solid-wooden things.

foone, 10 months ago to random

ugh, projects:

• Wheel of Fortune (2010, Wii): I need to get way smarter or rewrite Dolphin. Neither is likely to happen anytime soon
• Barbie Fashion Show: I need to write a tool to inject textures, not just extract them. This should be easy if I don't change image sizes
• Take No Prisoners: I'm not really sure where I am with this one/what's left. I can maybe dump opcodes of the scripting system with a bit more work?

ifixcoinops, 10 months ago to random

Alright so last night I said hey folks, I'm 40, dyspraxic as heck and can't draw, and it bothers me, pls recommend me a beginner-friendly course, and drawabox was recommended among others.

Started it today. Dude's telling how to draw smooth lines that don't wobble; use your whole arm not your wrist, practice each stroke first to build muscle memory, put your eyes on the end, do the whole thing in one constant motion at one constant speed and don't think until you're done with the line, I nod along and go alright and give it a try and ffs this is welding, this is literally MIG welding, it's also how you spray paint and clearcoat, it's how you brush polycrylic onto wood, and I've been drawing crappy wobbly lines my whole life because no bugger ever told me "Hey Dan why don't you try moving the pen like you're spraying lacquer onto a pinball playfield."

Still cannae draw, but at least I've figured out how to do straight smooth bloody lines with a pen, wish I'd put two and two together ten years ago

emily, 10 months ago to random

"defense in depth" is just sparkling security theater

foone, 11 months ago to random

I love finding a function in a game that is literally just
void func(const char*){
}

No body. But it's called from 440 different places in the exe.

you can just smell the #IFDEF DEBUGMODE in the binary

emily, 11 months ago to random

bunzip2 is a tool for making bunnies smaller

emily, 11 months ago to random

I wrote a single line of jquery today to bodge something on a page that was already using it, and managed to hit both of the two dumb things that I used to trip over repeatedly all the time when I worked with it regularly: .each() callbacks taking (index, element) instead of (element, index), and the element being a raw DOM object and not a jquery wrapper.

It's like nostalgia but with the emotions reversed.

emily, 11 months ago to random

I think the matrix emoji thing is trying to tell me to go work on a bicycle or something

emily, 1 year ago to random

pushed a commit to githup, got "remote: fatal error in commit_refs", pushed it again, it worked but then github fell over a minute later

my bad, I will avoid pushing code in the future

emily, 1 year ago to random

updated my resume to reflect my LLM skills

emily, 1 year ago to random

suddenly mildly annoyed that fixed-point arithmetic is totally unrelated to breakpoints