olafurw

olafurw, 11 months ago to random

"Do you support unicode?"
-"Yup"
"But all text in your app is just an array of bytes."
-"Yeah, we can store anything with that."
"How are people supposed to read it?"
-"Oh, that's a UI issue, not on us."

olafurw, 1 month ago to random

Descent 3 source code has been released. And as a time honored tradition, let's look for curse words.

https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3

olafurw, 9 months ago to random

I'm sick and barely conscious. AMA.

olafurw, 1 month ago to random

MS-DOS is now open source, so in a time honored tradition. Lets look for curse words!

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

olafurw, 4 months ago to random

Icelandic phone numbers are 7 digits.

5xx-xxxx is usually Reykjavik (and surrounding area)
555-xxxx is usually my old home town (Hafnarfjörður)

Which means when movies go "555-1234" or something, then that's an actual phone number in Iceland.

When movies do this, I'll often look up the phone number in the Icelandic phone book.

Movie: "Yeah, my number is 555-xxxx"
Me: "Nope, that's a dentist in Iceland"

olafurw, 1 month ago to random

My Doom in Space project was written about in a Norwegian Tech Magazine. If you have access to it and wanna practice your Norwegian you can read it here (subscription or login paywall)

https://www.digi.no/artikler/trodde-forst-det-var-spam-jeg-har-en-satellitt-vil-du-kjore-doom-pa-den/545567

olafurw, 6 months ago to random

Don't write code with if statements. You shouldn't be asking questions, you're the boss. Tell the code what to do. Be assertive! Be confident! No doubts, no fear, just code!

olafurw, 6 days ago to random

If anyone ever makes an Icelandic Taskmaster, then I'll be first in line to audition as the host.

olafurw, 4 months ago to random

I WRITE JOKES IN CAPITALS.
THIS ONE WAS WRITTEN IN OSLO.

olafurw, 6 months ago to random

Tusky as a mobile mastodon app is fine, how it loads notifications it seems to be that it loads N notifications you haven't seen, and when it's done it loads the next N, etc.

Which as a method of loading notifications is fine, until you have a popular post and you have to slog through 10-20 notification loads, each with a few seconds of delay.

@Tusky

olafurw, 4 months ago to random

Working on a feature, trying one approach, it's not working well.

I go do something else for a couple of days and then come back to it to try another approach.

"Ok, to do this approach, it would be really nice to have a function that does X. Oh wait, it already exists?"

I made it... in approach one..

olafurw, 9 months ago to random

Excellent work Norway.

olafurw, 10 months ago to random

Baldur's Gate 3 people.

Why is there a fully second's delay from when you hold click to move and the character moving

If you click the ground it's a bit faster but still there's this inherit delay. It's running smooth otherwise

Where can I turn it off? Nothing on PCGamingWiki.

olafurw, 4 months ago to random

I'm not 100% sold on the whole apple vision plus thing, but this is a cool use for it.

Put timers on top of objects and they stay there while you move around.

From this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb1Dv565f2I

olafurw, 11 months ago to random

If I want simple non invasive web analytics what would you recommend?

Currently using google analytics and I feel it's too much sometimes.

olafurw, 8 months ago to random

I'm in the "I regret everything" phase of my conference talk slide writing.

olafurw, 7 months ago to random

I just got a video of a bug reproduction and Slack was helpful and gave me the transcript of the video.

olafurw, 6 months ago to random

Variables are just invisible barriers we build around a bunch of zeroes and ones.

olafurw, 9 months ago to random

"Hey TypeScript."
TS: "Sup"
"That friend of yours JavaScript is pretty wild."
TS: "Yeah..."
"You'd never behave like that, right?"
TS: "Oh yeah... never...."

olafurw, 7 months ago to random

I've been programming since forever and running a DB update query always freaks me out a bit.

Double check? No, quadruple check, and run the query in a temp DB first to also make sure.

But am I still sure? No.

olafurw, 2 months ago to random

Not this again.

This is not a memory efficiency thing!
WhatsApp is not storing the group size variable as an unsigned char. Because that only goes to 255.

It's just an int and there's a programmer that finds the number 256 to be neat.

How do I know? This is an old story. Current limit is 1024.

olafurw, 2 months ago to random

My new video is out.
DOOM in Space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zthssUIFG6c

olafurw, 29 days ago to random

I can't believe an Icelandic newspaper did this pun.

To explain it:

• Probably in Icelandic is Líklega.
• There's a common phrase that is used to mean "probably": "ef að líkum lætur" (in all probability can)

Also:
Lík means corpse.

An article about a morgue closing used that phrase as the title.
"Closes this summer in all probability"
"Closes this summer if all corpses can"

olafurw, 4 months ago to random

Psst, hey. You want some internet?

olafurw, 21 days ago to random

Anytime English speakers talk about the Nordics having long weird words, I remind them of the word "Defenestration" (the act of throwing someone out of a window)