Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

New bug report, prevents data from displaying in reports, potentially an entire class of bugs that I need new test cases to make sure I'm fixing this everywhere instead of just in the one minor case that was reported.

Customers were confused about a product so I took some time to talk with them about that, explain the differences with other products, and I'm a little surprised that they bought it because I also spent a lot of time on what's wrong with it and how there are faster/easier/better ways to do the alternative uses they were thinking of.

It's a case of, for the price I'm selling it, it's fine for the niche it's designed for, but you may already own other things that work better.

If you have trouble reading it, the shirt that I'm wearing in that has an upside down bat on it with text repeated in the background, "more betterer more gorgeouser more excellenter".

The interview video I mentioned earlier has been published now. Here's a link if you want to watch that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH-qhMQ6KhE

Got an email letting me know the VFD I ordered will be delivered on Sunday. Nobody delivers stuff on Sunday so that seems unlikely.

The person who interviewed me at retreat finished editing and uploading that. I'll post a link to that later once it's publicly available.

The video description links to my fediverse profile so if anybody goes there soon and scrolls down a little bit they'll see this boosted note: https://octodon.social/@Taweret/100680778636402360

The cat likes to hang out on the edge of surfaces, but she also likes to roll. This isn't always a good combination.

Money arrived in the mail from my latest teaching gig. It's not much, but I'll take it.

lol Mastodon in VR

Cat wants to bash her head into my face. Time for allergy meds.

Picked up a PSVR after work (I blame Tetris hype). Initial thoughts: I'll need to do some crafting to feel more comfortable with camera placement. It took way too long to find the power button/volume controls. Rez Infinite worked really well but now I suck at the boss fights. Race the Sun seems a little better in VR. Concert Editor in Project Diva X seems a lot less pointless now. Cat wanted to help. Mild nausea kicked in a bit after turning the headset off. Had a big smile on pretty often.

@gnomon 14 pounds of cat at last measurement, supposedly.

Today's cat.

Yesterday my YT channel hit the payout threshold again. It took a bit over 9 months and works out to an average of about 5/100ths of a cent per video view, so that'll cover a couple months of servers.

There are a few companies that make plaques out of press mentions that insist on pestering me every time I'm in a newspaper and they've apparently branched out into magazines now. Nothing against the product, I'm just completely uninterested in it.

Someone just called to find my email address so they could spam me. First, no. Second, it's way easier to find my email address than my phone number so what's up with that?

VFD for a new test rig is scheduled to arrive some time between tomorrow (unlikely since it hasn't shipped yet) and Monday. I'll need to write some new code to make use of all the functionality there and since I've seen similar stuff in the documentation for other devices I'll need to think about how I want to handle some of that stuff to keep it broadly applicable.

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.