Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

The more I follow web devs here and hear their troubles, the more I think that writing web applications in C++ might really be the sane thing to do.

The road to becoming toast is hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_O5ZGIhE9U

Time to work off the pizza with some DDR.

I had a late lunch and ate 3/4 of a pizza. Will probably skip dinner.

Someone did one of those seal some art in a weather proof bag, leave it somewhere public (outside my shop). A customer noticed the art but did not look closely enough to realize that it was abandoned intentionally and that she could keep it, instead turning it into a staff member for the lost and found. Staff member also didn't look at this closely enough to realize nobody is going to claim that. I'd contact the artist, but I'm not on any of the listed contact platforms that don't do interop.

Pretty sure Orca always looked like he had another face on his chest, though.

Tried out PS2 emulation on this machine. It won't play my discs directly so I have to rip those to ISOs before I can play them, but that doesn't take long. So far, at least with this game, there are some minor audio and graphical glitches but nothing too bad and it's playing full speed without stressing the system.

I tried to buy tonic for my gin but the grocery store didn't have any.

@fribbledom The Atelier series games (both the Arland trilogy and the Dusk trilogy) have held up quite well. So have the Tales of games (Tales of Xillia 2 has an optional find all the cats side quest).

Initial fixes are in. Alignment bug fixed, though I think I wrote it the way I did because doing the right thing didn't work on some platforms so I need to test that. Grid lines now pick up the same color as the the text. Unfortunately, if the theme is changed while the program is running, the background gets updated but none of the content changes so I need to detect and handle that event.

Also tempted to go all in on respecting theme colors because the parts of Typica that do handle that properly look cool.

I'm thinking that as long as I'm touching this code anyway it might be worthwhile to see about adding more features that were originally planned to be on hold until 2.0.

This is how Typica currently mis-displays the graph on this machine. It's picking up the dark background and light text from the system theme, showing the text about twice as large as it should be and for temperatures mis-aligned. The lines remain black.

I should see about hooking my MIDI stuff up to the new computer, especially some of the smaller gear and see if I can figure that out.

The new video took a minor eternity to finish all the transcoding jobs on PeerTube (about 16 hours). That's not on PeerTube, that's on my using a single core VM and using an effect that's hard to optimize for.

If anybody wants to hear me talk about teaching roasting classes, rant about bad laptop designs, and the stuff that I'm working on fixing next in Typica, here you go: https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/5758e6e0-cc6c-4841-b097-56acb5120573

Working a bar shift today. I don't do that nearly often enough.

Rendering the new vlog episode. No live cats this time around but I'm wearing a glow in the dark cat shirt and drinking from another cat mug.

Hacker cat listens to your data.